This, and the optical drive, will be the real performance bottlenecks in the system and in the PC you could theoretically build to compare it with.

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Managing innovation is about the techniques for developing better products and services coupled to the ability to break through bottlenecks in the system, from sourcing through to delivery, in a global economy which is no longer progressive (from emerging to advanced), but is fractured between advanced, decaying, emerging, emerged and frontier.

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Refiners have so far coped by improving refining technology, but tight capacity leaves the system vulnerable to price spikes when bottlenecks appear.

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