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

Harvard Business

Electronics littered shelves in 2001 after the dot-com bubble burst. Inventory challenges aren’t new. 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.

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Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the Declining Number of Public Companies

Harvard Business

Emerging digital firms compete with knowledge, strategy, and expert human capital, attacking even the largest established firms. They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers.

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The Art of the Elevator Pitch

Harvard Business

What does your startup or product do? Steve Jobs was a genius at identifying the one thing he wanted us to remember about a new product. In 2001 it was that the original iPod allowed you to carry “1,000 songs in your pocket.” ” Apple still uses this strategy today. What’s your idea?

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5 Ways the Best Companies Close the Strategy-Execution Gap

Harvard Business

Executives say that they lose 40% of their strategy’s potential value to breakdowns in execution. In our experience at Bain & Company, however, this strategy-to-performance gap is rarely the result of shortcomings in implementation; it is because the plans are flawed from the start. Take Dell Technologies, for example.

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Consultant Ninja: New Vault.com FAIL: Management Consulting Blog

Consultant Ninja

The new Vault represents the first major redesign of the site since 2001. I am a strategy consultant at. Productivity. (6). Note the log scale. Late in 2007, private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS) purchased a majority stake in the successful career information company. I misread your post there and the end.

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Consultant Ninja: Friedman Billings Ramsey and Tom Peters.

Consultant Ninja

It wasnt until 2001 that he admitted that he made up most of the data in the book. It is probably better explained by decent execution of a decent strategy during a REALLY GREAT time to be in finance. I am a strategy consultant at. Productivity. (6). The investment bank still operates as FBR Capital Markets. The ANALyst.

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Greece Loses 17,000 Jobs in July, Most Since 2001

MishTalk

Via translation from Libre Mercado, The Greek Economy Lost 17,000 Jobs in July, the Worst Result Since 2001. Industrial production recorded a record drop in July, according to estimates by Markit. According to the local press, Greece destroyed about 17,000 jobs in July, the worst result since 2001. What a disaster.

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