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The authors would like to thank the following Kearney colleagues for their valuable contributions: Jared Angin, Sameer Bajaj, Amanda Bettenhausen, Kristin Boswell, Lynn Chen, Jade Christensen, Brittany Cohen, Zackary Coley, Lori Couto, Stephanie Dotterer, Robert Downey, Haley Dunbrack, Colin Etienne, Gennie Faber, Alex Frank, Frank Gao, Vipul Garg, Rebecca Grenham, Daniel Harder, Melissa Herman, Nandan Katte, Elise Kerner, Puneet Khurana, Maria Kisker, Samantha Klein, Michelle Kolkevich, Yuri Kopylovski, Kruthika Kumaraguru, Ben Kuo, Julien Lacroix, Kerry MacKenzie, Ansley Marks, Klara Mateju, Stanislav Matuszny, Amir Maymay, Elly Noh, Alvaro Nunez, Marc Palazzolo, Erik Peterson, Mridul Reddy, Gelila Reta, Jeremy Richardson, Yan Sun, Franca Tam, Mihir Tamhankar, Marcus Uhthoff, Sarah Wang, Noah Wintman, Kevin Wolfe, Alexander Yu, Aaqil Zakarya, Qing Zhou.

The author team would also like to thank the following external colleagues for their valuable contributions: Josh Garrison, Cisco; Rick McDonald, The Clorox Company; Rick Kaglic, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; Simon Cohen, Henco; Mania Flaskou, IHS Markit; Mark Ribbing, Nascent Wave; Andy Moses and Alen Bejin, Penske Logistics; Tom Varian, Strategic Communications Services; Harsit Patel, Walmart.