The Agile Manager
JUNE 30, 2021
The number of 18 to 65 year olds actively working has been in steady decline since the mid-2000s, a few years before the 2008 financial crisis. Curiously, the labor participation rate is plumbing levels not seen since the 1970s. It dropped significantly again with the pandemic, and has not yet recovered to pre-pandemic levels.
Speed Curve
JUNE 14, 2021
Then in 2008, while I was helping an educational publisher launch their elearning platform (and running into the familiar challenges of how do you build and deliver rich content over the internet) I came across Steve Souders’s first book, High Performance Web Sites. I think that was the point I became hooked!
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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.
The Agile Manager
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
There are a number of self-proclaimed commercial ecosystems, ranging from online lending to conglomerates of retail, credit and loyalty. Both asset classes and tech products fall out of favor, destroying the fortunes of sellers quickly (bank equity values in 2008) or slowly (Blackberry software developers from 2008 onward).
The Agile Manager
MAY 31, 2020
It isn't difficult to imagine the DIY retailers lobbying congress to create legislation that allows employees to set aside up to x-thousand-dollars of annual income as tax exempt for use on home improvement. 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
Recessions in 2001 (when businesses reigned in unrestrained tech spending) and 2008 (when businesses reigned in all spending) tightened belts and increased operational scrutiny. Corporate profitability and cash flows have been strong, especially since the 2008 financial crisis. What does all this mean?
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