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China’s Slowdown: The First Stage of the Bullwhip Effect

Harvard Business Review

It reached a peak on June 12 and then proceeded to lose over 40% of its value by the end of August despite efforts by the Chinese government to prop up the market. Since 2000, the Chinese economy has been growing at an increasing rate — from 6% per year in 2000 to 12% per year in 2010.

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Living in a Radical State of Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

Old efficiency thinking based on engineering and rational market models needs to be replaced by a creative intelligence based on imagining, building and managing new futures. These firsts-of-their-kind developments require unprecedented degrees of creativity.".

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Get Ready for the New Era of Global Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

First we see major shifts in demand: developing economies such as China and India are morphing from the world's source of low-cost manufacturing capacity to the world's best market opportunities. They will not, it must be noted, alter how the role of manufacturing evolves as economies develop.