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Conserve or Invest?

The Agile Manager

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. Social media was just coming into its own.

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Fundamentals

The Agile Manager

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.

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The Management Revolution that Never Happened

The Agile Manager

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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Lost Productivity or Found Hyperefficiency?

The Agile Manager

In particular, they cite the lack of breakthrough technologies - e.g, The productivity is there, and will intensify with technologies such as AI and ML; the instrumentation simply doesn't exist to measure it. In this definition, productivity through technology is a deflationary force that makes products more affordable.

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

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If you have been paying attention to the technology press over the past 12-18 months, you may have noticed a rather large number of negative stories about Intel's processor business. We won't know the actual single-threaded performance of these processors until they have been released and benchmarked by neutral third-party testers.

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