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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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It’s “health care”: 3 reasons why 2 words can help transform an industry

Christensen Institute

Late Harvard Business School professor, Clayton Christensen, even said in his 2009 Mayo Transform presentation , “a general hospital actually is not a viable business model. We’ve seen language serve these purposes across industries in our nation. The industry is historically supply-oriented in its approach to business.

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IDEA 2009 - Day 1

Boxes and Arrows

Download Making Virtual Worlds: Games and the Human for a Digital Age (IDEA 2009 Presentation) View more documents from tmmalaby. Instead of relying on top-down and procedural decision-making, these organizations contrive complex and game-like systems that promise to generate legitimate decisions from the ground up.

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Overcome the Customer’s Concern – Transfer the Risk

Destination Innovation

During the economic depression which followed the financial crash of 2009 car sales slumped across America. Automobile makers tried all sorts of promotions, many featuring big price cuts, but they could not lure buyers onto their forecourts and persuade them to buy. Rebates and other traditional incentives just were not working.

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Three reasons to change the global poverty fighting paradigm

Christensen Institute

Every year, the development industry spends around $150 billion fighting poverty in order to prevent situations like the aforementioned. So, the purpose of the development industry should not simply be to end poverty. This happened to me in 2009 when I co-founded the nonprofit organization, Poverty Stops Here (PSH).

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Is vertical integration the next value-based care?

Christensen Institute

We are now seeing a similar industry-wide fervor around vertical integration as a popular strategy to employ. Once business models are solidified, they are increasingly resistant to change—in both health care and other industries. Harvard Business School Module Note, August 2009 (revised November 2021). Christensen and Mark W.

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Why Not Start with a Why Not?

Inspiring Next

There has been a lot of hype about Start with the Why on social media, after the Ted Talk by Simon Sinek, and his book in 2009. I am personally having a tough time with that. Innovators question more than comment. I strongly feel that innovators and trendsetters start with a ‘Why Not’ in… Read More » Why Not Start with a Why Not?