Adjustments are being done through normal performance management, identification of overlapping or redundant efforts, removal of excess management layers, and ensuring we have the right skill sets aligned with our business priorities and growth objectives.

Cisco management indicated that it believed that there would be little to no market for its excess inventory in secondary market because there is already an oversupply of components.

This alliance has significant strategic benefits for any organization pursuing competency-based performance management. The set of competencies that a company chooses to measure and reward is a strategic business tool. Competencies help align individual objectives to strategy – and employee performance management makes sure the strategy gets executed.

Our customers have no way to mitigate excess inventory, but we do. They want maximum flexibility with limited or no inventory liability. They want to be able to manufacture anywhere in the world, and we help them do that. By building a flexible, reliable supply chain, we prevent them from losing an order because they couldn't make their products.

I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.

IT metrics need to evolve to something that matters to the business audience; at the same time that “business sentiment” needs to get put into something more tangible.