The Agile Manager
APRIL 30, 2020
Both the financial and real economies have suffered quite a few shocks in the last 20 years: the dot-com bubble bursting (2000); September 11 (2001); the Great Recession (2008); and today in 2020 the COVID-19 crisis is wreaking economic havoc. It was much different in 2008.
Highly Scalable
MARCH 10, 2015
Retail is one of the most important business domains for data science and data mining applications because of its prolific data and numerous optimization problems such as optimal prices, discounts, recommendations, and stock levels that can be solved using data analysis methods. However, many of these models are highly parametric (i.e.
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The Agile Manager
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
A mobile phone company makes handsets for users and curates an app market place for developers. There are a number of self-proclaimed commercial ecosystems, ranging from online lending to conglomerates of retail, credit and loyalty. It's fashionable for a company to proclaim itself an ecosystem.
The Agile Manager
MAY 31, 2020
A small merchant wanting to do more business digitally didn't have the balance sheet to finance development of digital capabilities, let alone drive consumer behavior change to use those capabilities. From a certain point of view, a lot of banks were nationalized by governments in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
The Agile Manager
SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
Think about policy renewal operations at insurance companies, or specialized software developers working in silos: they are information workers, but they are on an information assembly line, doing piecework and passing it onto the next person. "[Big Brain cells connect via trillions of synapses in adaptable and complex ways.
The Agile Manager
JANUARY 31, 2022
From roughly 2008 until 2019 or so, real estate in this area was inexpensive, a long-lived aftereffect of the 2008 financial crisis (fewer buyers) as well as changes in where and how people vacationed (fewer tourists). Unsurprisingly, some flashpoints have emerged. COVID-19 changed this.
The Agile Manager
MARCH 31, 2021
Shippers, facing excessive capacity after the financial crisis of 2008, either went out of business, merged, or did deals to fill their ships to capacity. Optimization of the oceangoing containership fleet came at the cost of the efficiency of the rest of the supply chain into which it was integrated.
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