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

Harvard Business Review

Electronics littered shelves in 2001 after the dot-com bubble burst. And now, the high-tech industry is feeling the weight of a volatile market that has led to excess component inventory. It’s a forward-looking metric based on the classic momentum equation: current inventory x rate of inventory change.

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. But how much time would it have taken?

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Seven Companies That Failed to Innovate and What Happened to Them

IdeaScale

These seven companies lost out on entering major new markets, got acquired by competitors, or accumulated billions on bad bets, all by failing to innovate or grasp the value of their innovations. The mistake in innovation was to assume that minor cosmetic changes and rougher play were the only things sports fans wanted. The lesson?

Company 130
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Nine Short Innovation Lessons from Lego

Destination Innovation

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp joined in 2001 and was promoted to CEO three years later at the age of 36. He created a sense of urgency to undertake the changes ahead. David Gram, Head of Marketing at Lego’s Future Lab, said, “We only develop the few key features that are really needed. They appointed a new CEO.

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What Can Your Business Learn About Innovation from Shark Tank Ideas?

IdeaScale

Shark Tank has been around in some form or another since 2001, with the Japanese series “Money Tigers.” Just appearing on the show is marketing so invaluable it can double, triple, or more a company’s revenue, according to an analysis by Inc. Usually, a dollar amount is set for a small but significant percentage of the company.

Learning 130
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Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innovators Alliance

Apple began its stunning transformation with the iPod in 2001, during the darkest days after the Internet bubble burst. Companies like these keep their cost-conscious creative market juices flowing regardless of the economic climate. And its iPad was introduced during the 2008 downturn.

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The Rise of Product Management

Moves the Needle

The memo that started it all sounds more like modern product marketing than product management, but your mileage may vary. The primary function was to serve as the bridge between Engineering and Marketing. Ken Beer was the Director of Product Management and reported into the Marketing department. I had never heard of Agile.