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The Next Supply-Chain Challenge Isn’t a Shortage — It’s Inventory Glut

Harvard Business Review

In 2009, the financial crash left manufacturers with excess inventory when consumer buying power suddenly dropped. And now, the high-tech industry is feeling the weight of a volatile market that has led to excess component inventory. Inventory challenges aren’t new. Electronics littered shelves in 2001 after the dot-com bubble burst.

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Overwhelmed, underwhelmed at the Web Summit, Lisbon

Paul Hobcraft

I am taking the opportunity to review the Web Summit, held in Lisbon last week of 5th (evening) to 8th November 2018. The Web Summit, originally Dublin Web Summit, is a technology conference held annually since 2009. The company was founded by Paddy Cosgrave, David Kelly, and Daire Hickey. Overhype is an understatement.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

We’ll also provide a series of practical tips and examples that can help address the changes, embrace new opportunities, and navigate these challenging times. As not all organizations are willing to take the risk to shift gears and change direction, that’s where you can outperform competitors. So, without further ado, let’s get to it.

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Surviving change: how law firms can innovate

Wazoku

Surprisingly, in the aftermath of the global financial crisis in December 2009, there were nearly 112,600 practising solicitors, a figure that climbed to nearly 135,000 as of April this year. Some say that in 10 years time one robot lawyer will deal with the tedious task of reviewing documents that is traditionally done by 10 associates.

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Surviving change: how law firms can innovate

Wazoku

Surprisingly, in the aftermath of the global financial crisis in December 2009, there were nearly 112,600 practising solicitors, a figure that climbed to nearly 135,000 as of April this year. Some say that in 10 years time one robot lawyer will deal with the tedious task of reviewing documents that is traditionally done by 10 associates.

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How To Lead Through Crisis

Innovation Excellence

That all changed in November though, when ad sales, our primary source of revenue, dropped precipitously. We found something similar during the Ukraine economic collapse of 2009. Because the country was a major outsourcing center for web developers, demand for those with technical talent actually increased.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). The answer, to me, is how the meaning of innovation has changed. They were also inventors, but of the 21st Century. Obviously, all names listed are ‘innovators’ of their time.