bottleneck
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In 2016, CEO Niraj Shah asked her to become the chief people officer, or CPO, to oversee talent acquisition globally—especially technical talent—since that was the company’s primary growth bottleneck, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
The biggest bottleneck to the global trade of energy is no longer crude oil, according to the head of Kuwait’s state oil company.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
Some early robotic tests either failed or proved too expensive, creating a bottleneck as retailers scramble to speed up home delivery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
But due to a lack of U.S. manufacturing capacity and capability, actuation systems are also a bottleneck, Kelkar said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
Slowing down for the bottleneck, he noticed that the men in uniform were waving over vehicles with large flashlights.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
The situation is dire in Saudi Arabia, which has seen a roughly 25% drop in its oil refining capacity because of attacks and logistical bottlenecks, IIR data show.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Limited glass-preform capacity, raw-material bottlenecks and constrained ex-China capacity have created a supply deficit, pushing hyperscalers into multiyear agreements and opening opportunities for STL.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
“By modernizing and upgrading turbines, steam generators, and digital control systems at operating plants, uprates deliver substantial capacity gains without the multi-year timelines or interconnection bottlenecks associated with greenfield construction,” the blog post noted.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
Junctions on the M4 in Newport could close, and a new bridge built across the Menai Strait, as part of Welsh government plans for two notorious transport bottlenecks.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Unfortunately, the nanoseconds used up in a simple computer operation do add up to lengthy bottlenecks on intractable problems, many of which would require millennia to solve in general.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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