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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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14 LGBTQ+ Innovators, Inventors and Scientists who changed the world

Idea to Value

An American Geophysicist, Cox and his colleagues were instrumental in developing a way to measure the changes in the Earth’s magnetic alignment and the geomagnetic polarity time scale. In 1954, he was found dead due to a reported cyanide-based suicide. Her duty was to operate the robotic arm on the Challenger SPAS-1.

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Is Myopia the Biggest Threat to Innovation?

IdeaScale

For decades, it was the technological leader in photography. The Harvard Business Review’s autopsy of how Kodak lost its way reveals what happened. Ignoring change is often a bad idea. Take a hard look at what change in your industry means and what will be necessary to be ready for it. The Music Industry.

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If An Early Idea Got Your Business This Far, What Will Advance You Further?

Daniel Burrus

However, as times changed, these entertainment personalities eventually burned out faster than they came in due to a sophomore slump of a follow-up to their viral song or movie that put them on the map. Good question, and the answer is that they would have been dead in the water, because change is the only constant.

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#1,376 – Week In Review

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

NASA landed a probe on Eros back in 2001. Drone technology hasn’t really taken off yet (pun intended) but all that may be about to change thanks to a novel approach that aims to turn drones into portable canopies, capable of springing into action to provide people with shade during concerts and sporting events. Drone Canopy.

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3 Effective Strategies for Leading Across Generations in the Workplace

CMOE

So, you could give team members the option of working remotely or only in the office part of the time, and you could institute a process of annual reviews to appeal to the priorities of all generations. Gen Z workers tend to focus on promotions and work-life balance, whereas Gen X and Baby Boomers value stability.

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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. This remains true in an upturn, especially as we ramp up again since customers’ priorities and mindsets themselves may have fundamentally changed due to the economic circumstances.