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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 All positive precursor signs of hyper-productivity. February 17, 2009 at 11:25 AM. February 17, 2009 at 6:00 PM. Tuesday, February 17, 2009. Productivity. (6). Signs of Crunch Time. Vision narrowing. 96 hours until were done."]

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The Challenge of Activation

Kates Kesler

The gravitational pull to greater complexity, and all the challenges that come with it, is powered by the need for new sources of growth in diverse geographic markets across multi-product divisions with increasingly demanding customers and consumers with lots of technology at their fingertips. Galbraith, 2009).

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Good News: Investors Cut Gold Holdings to Six-Year Low; Good Timin'

MishTalk

Investors cut holdings in bullion-backed exchange-traded products to the lowest since 2009 as surging stock markets from the U.S. metric tons, or 0.3 Here's proof: Gold Out of Favor as Investors Cut Holdings to Six-Year Low. to China hurt demand and prospects for rising U.S. interest rates boosted the dollar. percent, to 1,594.08

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What Airbnb and Strava Know About Building Emotional Connections with Customers

Harvard Business

The transactional layer can be found in most products and services. What is critical is the emotional layer , the features of a product or service that tap into the fundamental, and under-the-surface, motivations and emotions of customers. To gain it, you need a group of users who love your product.

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What Happens to Mental Health at Work When Our Devices Know How We Feel?

Harvard Business

In the UK alone, a 2014 report from the chief medical officer for England estimates, the number of sick days lost to “stress, depression, and anxiety” increased by 24% from 2009 to 2013. But selvesware devoted to greater productivity at the expense of mindfulness and mental health can’t sustainably succeed.

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What the Data Tells Us About Immigrant Executives in the U.S.

Harvard Business

As of 2009, U.S. Consumer Products and Banking and Finance are two other major concentration industries. This is despite the fact that many well-known CEOs of American companies are immigrants, such as Elon Musk (Tesla), Sergey Brin (Google), Satya Nadella (Microsoft), and Dara Khosrowshahi (Expedia and Uber). Where do they work?

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