Examples of obsolete in the following topics:
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- Although scientific management as a distinct theory or school of thought was obsolete by the 1930s, most of its themes are still important parts of industrial engineering and management today.
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- Decline: the product becomes obsolete and its competitive disadvantage result in decline in sales and, eventually, deletion.
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- Supply chain optimization may include additional refinements at various stages of the product lifecycle, and new, ongoing, and obsolete items are optimized in different ways.
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- For example, a hardware store that sells drills may find it difficult to market and sell a hole-drilling service because the less expensive a drill is to buy, the more impractical and obsolete a hole-drilling service becomes.
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- Structural unemployment may be encouraged to rise by persistent cyclical unemployment: if an economy suffers from long-lasting low aggregate demand, many of the unemployed may become disheartened and their skills (including job-searching skills) become rusty and obsolete.
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- As times changed and industries refused to change, a significant number of manufacturing jobs became obsolete – and in what became a familiar pattern across numerous American industrial cities, unemployment grew, bringing crime, social unrest and racial tensions, followed by flight to the suburbs and the abandonment of downtown areas.