Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

We know how crucial it is to having talent who love working for us and who will offer discretionary effort and innovation. We even know how to quantify all this stuff. Including the brain trust on your organizational development team. The one who really should be studying how to move that needle is, well, you.

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CEO Short-term Learning-by-Doing Blanchard 161

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market.

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Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Having a strong domestic manufacturing base is vital to the United States maintaining its world leadership in innovation. Producing biologics involves enough biochemistry, chemical engineering, and cell biology to make a graduate student wince. Manufacturing provides the foundation for many kinds of innovations.

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Supply Chain Offshoring Engineering Pharmaceuticals 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

To design and develop new products, it’s not uncommon today to get your research and engineering folks to collaborate with customers and other external stakeholders. In effect, you give these people the right to participate in your innovation process and influence its final outcome. Collaboration Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

Select process owners with strong leadership skills and develop those skills even further. She lacked experience in managing process improvement, so she hired a small consulting team to help her develop those skills. Make the process owner accountable for how well the process performs.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Tactics include, for example, labeling claims and how to be clear about what standards we might want to develop, and also about disclosure, when he mentions materiality. But I think the interesting part comes when they start to see it as an opportunity for innovations that are financially beneficial as well as socially beneficial.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

Many of Dow chemical's products, such as its insulation and solar shingles , are energy intensive to make. Encouraging sweeping innovation, Andrew Winston noted at the meeting, requires asking " heretical questions," questions that demand non-obvious answers. David Struhs, of C3, similarly highlighted this holistic perspective.

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Supply Chain Chemicals Energy System 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

We know intuitively that innovation goals are well served by cross-functional “SWAT” teams that are diverse in their membership. They find that higher-valued industrial innovation (by its nature also riskier) is more likely to arise when diverse teams are assembled of people with deep subject matter expertise in their areas.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

Across industries, companies are using the vast amounts of user-generated data to guide innovation of new products and services. But data mining does not equate to developing "customer intelligence." Human behavior is nuanced and complex, and no matter how robust it is, data can provide only part of the story. Knowing Too Much.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

after chemicals). And so, even with the price premium, Michelin was the only company that had figured out how to produce radial tires profitably at scale. In much of the 20 th century, technological innovation produced products that had plenty of room for improvement, opening up opportunities for high-end disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2011

In misguided attempts to boost productivity and direct innovation, managers can kill both creativity and passion — the intrinsic motivation required to stay deeply engaged in work — by destroying people's autonomy. What's more, when employees have freedom in how to do the work, they are more creative.

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Chemicals Creativity Micromanagement Wilde 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

In addition to knowing how to create a compelling narrative out of reams of data, there will be a premium paid to those who can paint vivid pictures of possible tomorrows. Credit given for the development of novel/innovative metrics for performance assessment (for example, attendance figures as a "team economics" variable).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2016

A few years later, she joined a start-up called BioAmber, producing chemical intermediates using sugars instead of fossil fuels. Most companies focus on thirty-somethings as high-potential talent to be developed and accelerated with job mobility and stretch assignments – acting as if careers are made (or not) before the age of 40.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

The challenge for all companies, Apple included, is how to continue investing in existing revenue-generating businesses while at the same time creating and launching the businesses of tomorrow. Forward-thinking executives understand that the real business they are in is not cosmetics or foods or chemicals or computers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

It also began innovating new services offerings to diversify its portfolio. Man-Wai Chow is leading the strategic intelligence efforts at Eastman, a chemical company. In the fiscal year that ended in Jun 2015, Atrion’s overall gross revenues grew by approximately 19 percent, but service revenue grew by 44 percent.

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Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

R&D and product development launch products that receive tepid responses. In doing research for my book , I found that companies who are attracting buyers in today's hyper-connected world are developing new approaches and competencies that focus on one thing: customers. Find your customer product developers. out of 5 to 4.5.

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CEO Airlines Marketing Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Tapping into biology''s security database — which was developed by millions of species in response to extremely complex natural security problems — gives us first a wakeup call, then some practical guidance on how to keep our information secure. There are models in our past of how to work without information technology.

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Chemicals Open-book Technology System 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Companies are increasingly seeing the obvious benefits of slashing energy use, and beginning to include in their calculations the considerable risk reduction from managing water well or limiting the use of toxic chemicals. See 15 cool biomimicry stories.). They will create an advantage through superior execution.

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Supply Chain NGO Short-term Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

But in this brief investigation by Beth Kowitt and Colleen Leahey, it''s pretty clear that having an idea and running a company are very different things — and that Wilson may only sort of know how to do the latter. Pharma companies are unable to produce new depression drugs because "scientists don''t even know where to begin."

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Fortunately, there's a rich source of lessons on how to thrive in an unpredictable world, and it has been cranking out success stories for 3.5 Adaptability is the power to detect and respond to change in the world, no matter how surprising or inconvenient it may be. Even the best of us are horrible at predicting the future.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. You will learn how to identify and prioritize your company’s full portfolio of opportunities – from new product lines to entirely new businesses. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.

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Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

I was once asked to facilitate in a group coaching intervention for the leadership team at the subsidiary of a large chemical company. These people are good at dealing with developments in the organization’s environment. The innovator: leadership as creative idea generation. The coach: leadership as a form of people development.

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Leadership Chemicals Execution Influence 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

Entirely new business lines and markets will spring up, which will, in turn, give rise to still more innovation. In the brain, a neuron is a cell that transmits electrical or chemical information. Three developments in the last decade made deep learning viable. It learns how to spot a cat.

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