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

Harvard Business

In 2009, the financial crash left manufacturers with excess inventory when consumer buying power suddenly dropped. It’s a forward-looking metric based on the classic momentum equation: current inventory x rate of inventory change. Electronics littered shelves in 2001 after the dot-com bubble burst.

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Consultant Ninja: Signs of Crunch Time: Management Consulting Blog

Consultant Ninja

Tuesday, February 17, 2009. Countdown metric unit shrinking. ["96 February 17, 2009 at 11:25 AM. February 17, 2009 at 6:00 PM. Tuesday, February 17, 2009. Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman.

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Why Companies Can’t Turn Customer Insights into Growth

BCG

On the left side, record each mention of an internal topic, such as financial or operational performance, plans, metrics, organization, employees, or culture. Consumer-facing companies in developed economies have experienced little or no growth since the global recession of 2008 and 2009.

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Job Hub: Uber Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

Uber is a San Francisco-based start-up that has been turning heads since its launch in 2009, “bringing people and their cities closer.” Uber was founded in 2009 by Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp, and the accompanying Uber app was launched the next year in June. ———– History & Culture.

Culture 100
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Five Housing Headwinds; Mortgage Originations Lowest Since 2010; Refinancible Loan Percentage Collapses; Payment Shock

MishTalk

A "recovery" since 2009 is pretty long in the tooth, historically speaking. Those are my opinions, but they are backed up by valuation metrics and extreme sentiment including a bubble belief the Fed can do no wrong. If the economy does not slow (extremely doubtful in my opinion), rates will rise, further collapsing values.

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The Challenge of Activation

Kates Kesler

Galbraith, 2009). Leaders do not know how and are not motivated to work in a matrix – metrics and reward systems continue to reinforce lack of enterprise thinking. The metrics and reward systems in the company make it clear that this kind of collaboration is expected. Unc ertainty is unnerving for most of us.

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Greece Needs to Be Honest About the Numbers

Harvard Business

Georgiou’s crime was that back in 2009, he strictly applied globally accepted international rules in reporting the Greek government’s budget deficit, which had the effect of increasing it by just under 3% to a whopping 15% of GDP. You would be wrong.