The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 9, 2023

The study scanned the brains of volunteers at various points during the work day and found that tasks that require a high degree of concentration can result in the build-up of a chemical called glutamate, which can have toxic consequences. In both groups, participants managed to achieve an 80% success rate.

Chemicals 102

Chemicals Short-term Long-term Document 102

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Just take a look at laptops, tablets, mobile phones, and other handheld devices, which were all possible thanks to display technology innovation. Display innovation can also be found in factory equipment, oil rigs, trains, trucks and boats and airplanes. Other unique display applications include displays embedded in a credit card.

Technology 109

Technology Innovation Industry Sharpe 109

Strategy Driven

JULY 10, 2013

StrategyDriven is proud to announce the launch of a risk management resource forum; providing innovative thought leadership and collaboration opportunities to help leaders effectively address their most pressing operational risks. You just finished reading StrategyDriven Launches Operational Risk Management Resource Forum !

Risk Management 58

Risk Management Operations Resources Management 58

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 9, 2024

Physical activity not only stimulates the release of endorphins, but other chemicals that promote mental sharpness and focus. Reduces Stress and Anxiety Entrepreneurship, as great as it is, comes with its fair share of stressors, from managing finances to meeting deadlines.

Entrepreneur 92

Entrepreneur Stress Chemicals Sharpe 92

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 11, 2021

. “We know that, like other plastic debris, disposable masks may also accumulate and release harmful chemical and biological substances, such as bisphenol A, heavy metals, as well as pathogenic micro-organisms. Consider standardization, guidelines, and strict implementation of waste management for mask wastes.

Cost 99

Cost Guidelines Chemicals Environment 99

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. They have to go to the trainings, and then report up line to their managers annually to account for why that needle hasn’t budged. They’re free to innovate and create market-differentiating, competitive ideas.

CEO 161

CEO Short-term Learning-by-Doing Blanchard 161

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

A recent study conducted by North Carolina State University reveals that universities excelling in sustainability practices tend to spur innovation and economic development in their local areas. Cities Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Index and the QS Sustainability Universities Ranking. ”

Chemicals 52

Chemicals Metrics Education Globalization 52

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2024

Microelectronics, the backbone of our digital age, is a field where innovation is constant, and the stakes are high. Various cleaning methods, such as wet chemical cleaning and dry cleaning, are used to remove impurities. For startups venturing into this exciting space, the journey is exhilarating but fraught with challenges.

Film 93

Film Engineering Software Tools 93

Strategy Driven

JULY 18, 2024

In this article, we’re going to explore some fresh and innovative strategies that can help you cultivate success. If you grow organic apples, talk about your chemical-free process and how it benefits the environment and health. Remember, the most fertile soil for innovation is an open mind. So, without further ado, let’s begin!

Creativity 78

Creativity USP Strategy Succession 78

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 2, 2020

Sectors such as chemicals, food and drink, and textiles were among the most enthusiastic shifters. They need also to ease export admin and stimulate financial support, risk management and education in strategic marketing. Tariff barriers. ”

Supply Chain 91

Supply Chain Hedge Credit Risk Bureaucracy 91

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 12, 2024

Carbon removal “This report shows that to achieve the billion-ton scale of carbon dioxide removal needed by 2050 to achieve net-zero goals, the United States must use all removal methods available—oceans, forests, cropland soils, biomass and minerals and chemicals through direct air capture—to make it happen,” the researchers explain.

GDP 70

GDP Chemicals Bottom-up Transportation 70

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This is important, as many multinationals utilize local partners to manage their rela­tionship with the host government, built goodwill with local people, and provide training and other benefits. For instance, chemical giant Dow has been focusing its efforts on environmentally friendly construction and industrial safety. Global reach.

Cooper 117

Cooper Long-term Politics Energy 117

HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

For every 100 men promoted to manager, only 85 women were promoted. . Computer and information systems managers. Also known as information technology managers, such professionals devise, coordinate, implement, and analyze computer-related projects. Female IT managers earn a median annual income of $89,804.

Human Resources 52

Human Resources Chemicals Software Engineering 52

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 31, 2024

They found that a high breathing rate and certain chemicals in the blood were linked to longer hospital stays. This program combines machine learning with medical information to help doctors manage patients before they get to the hospital and understand how sick they are when they arrive at the emergency room.

Chemicals 60

Chemicals Comparison Tools Software 60

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

At the Chemical Heritage Foundation's recent seminar on advanced materials innovation, a half-dozen R&D leaders collectively commanding billions in spend couldn't have been more excited about the market potential for their new materials. Potential innovation benefits are literally not worth it. Money can change everything.

Innovation 14

Innovation Budgeting Chemicals Seminar 14

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. Besides Dr Reddy's, several leading Indian firms are pioneering polycentric innovation: Tata Motors. Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink.

Globalization 12

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

Innovation 14

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2023

Born to immigrant parents in the Australian outback, he would eventually rise to the top of the corporate world, taking over in 2004 as CEO of Dow Chemical. In that job, which he held for 14 years, he won widespread credit for pushing an ambitious sustainability agenda, no easy task at one of the world’s biggest chemical producers.

Chemicals 19

Chemicals Travel CEO Execution 19

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Having a strong domestic manufacturing base is vital to the United States maintaining its world leadership in innovation. Making parts for an iPhone is a challenging mix of materials science, mechanical engineering, precision fabrication, and managing mind-boggling complexity in the supply chain.

Supply Chain 17

Supply Chain Offshoring Engineering Pharmaceuticals 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Corporate directors identified talent management as their single greatest strategic challenge. We know that organizations commit enormous resources and effort to talent management, so why aren''t they doing a better job? Not rising costs.

Talent Management 10

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 10

Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Like most engineers, I learned about rules of interchangeability back in school. These rules help companies decide whether a product change should require a new item number or simply a revision of the same item number. The standard “form, fit and function” (F/F/F) definition has served the needs of discrete manufacturers well for a long time.

Engineering 56

Engineering Products Productivity Definition 56

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2018

Jon Buchan, the director of London-based Charm Offensive, a creator of innovative cold emailing campaigns, applies Curry’s disruptive basketball strategy to business: “Find a gap,” Buchan writes. Innovate a product or service from within your position. “A chink in the armor. What is nobody else doing? .”

Career 15

Career Market Risk Chemicals Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

Positive comments and conversations produce a chemical reaction too. This “chemistry of conversations” is why it’s so critical for all of us –especially managers – to be more mindful about our interactions. Communication Difficult conversations Leadership Managing yourself' Behaviors that spark oxytocin, by contrast, raise C-IQ.

Positioning 15

Positioning Chemicals Ryan Discount 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention.

NGO 15

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2011

Too many knowledge workers — professionals with immense talent, experience, and drive to do meaningful work — are stifled by managers who misunderstand what effective management means. If they often get overridden by management, people quickly lose the motivation to make any decision, which severely inhibits progress.

Chemicals 17

Chemicals Creativity Micromanagement Wilde 17

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. Risk reduction: Managing your nature-sourced supply chain well can help avoid headaches and possible litigation.

Supply Chain 18

Supply Chain NGO Short-term Competitive Advantage 18

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. Small Firms Are Not More Innovative.

Long-term 14

Long-term Innovation Technology Industry 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

In effect, you give these people the right to participate in your innovation process and influence its final outcome. In B2B, managers all too often treat such “co-creation” as an event rather than a process and therefore focus almost exclusively on the workshop. Collaboration Innovation'

B2B 10

B2B Workshop Chemicals B2C 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Despite all the buzz about the growth of pre-prepped meal kits like Blue Apron, or the promise of Whole Foods under Amazon’s management, cooking itself is on a long, slow, steady decline. A final adaptation should be done through technological innovation, which is how Big Food really got its start. last year.

Industry 15

Industry Supply Chain Long-term Outsourcing 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.

Diversity 10

Diversity Team Automotive Chemicals 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

That is good news for managers and investors. While a dynamic, competitive economy rewards innovative firms with high profits and punishes poor performers with low profits, sustained aggregate profits suggest, instead, that firms are able to get away with higher prices because competition is limited. Profits are up.

Pharmaceuticals 14

Pharmaceuticals Politics Price Chemicals 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

That is, they do for creative problem-solving what catalysts do in chemical processes: they dissolve barriers and accelerate progress down more productive pathways. This vexing global challenge causes me to wonder, “What if the world’s innovators turned their sights on solving this problem?

Drucker 12

Drucker Apparel Chemicals Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , Six Sigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). In some of these companies, senior managers were dubious about the claims.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

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. The innovator: leadership as creative idea generation. The communicator: leadership as stage management. Getting this match wrong can bring misery to all concerned and cause considerable damage.

Leadership 15

Leadership Chemicals Execution Influence 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Understanding probabilities, statistics and analytics is increasingly vital to identifying and effectively managing high performing talent. Credit given for the development of novel/innovative metrics for performance assessment (for example, attendance figures as a "team economics" variable). Fantasy Sports Competition. Everybody eats.

Class 13

Class Education Supply Chain Sports 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2011

Remember how after Chemical Bank launched the first Automated Teller Machine in the 1960s, waves of bank branches shut down? It recently announced a simple iPhone app that consumers can download to complete transactions, manage their rewards programs, and so on. This isn't unusual.

Banking 15

Banking Chemicals Technology Video 15