May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
6h 39m
English

The consumer is the most important pointon the production line.
—W. Edwards Deming
Amazon’s retail flywheel is famous. Yet what is it exactly? Simply put, it’s a self-reinforcing loop or systems diagram driven by key objectives or initiatives. The flywheel metaphor refers to a huge, heavy mechanical device that slowly rotates, gathers momentum—building and storing energy—before achieving a semblance of self-perpetuation. In a factory, this looks like kinetic efficiency. In business, it looks like ever-increasing growth or adoption. It is a virtuous cycle.
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