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.

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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!

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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.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Paul Zak, the author of The Trust Factor , has shown that “when someone is tangibly trusted by a stranger, the brain synthesizes the signaling chemical oxytocin” and “ the more trust one is shown, the more the brain produces oxytocin.” Instigate innovation by encouraging mistakes with limited downside and reward employees who make them.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 28, 2016

Most managers and politicians make the mistake of relying on rules. More than once, I've seen rules and laws in social systems (such as businesses and societies) being compared to mathematical rules and natural laws in physical and chemical systems. How do we get creative workers to follow safety procedures? Well, almost.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 8, 2018

In this way, the identity paradox provides a platform for innovation that fully embraces the world as it changes, while holding fast to who the company is at its core. Larry Ackerman is a leading authority on organizational and personal identity and the pioneer of Identity-Based Management.

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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.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 10, 2013

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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.

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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.

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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. ”

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

Collaborative innovation is a hot topic in the B2C space, where it overlaps with crowdsourcing, but we see B2B players taking an interest as well. Nonetheless, innovating with customers should work well in B2B, as it should give companies a deeper knowledge of their customers and promote a trusting relationship.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

Governing boards might seem like the last place for innovation. But new strategies and structures are squarely in the board’s domain, and we have seen any number of governing boards innovating with, not just monitoring, management. Some boards have taken the principle further by forming their own innovation committee.

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Innovation success stories are all strikingly similar: a bright idea, supported by a zealot-innovator who sees it through. This is especially true for business model innovations — when the new idea is not a product, service, or technology but a different way of engaging with the customers and earning revenue from them.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Most innovation teams inside large companies are set up to operate like well-oiled machines. The problem is that while this approach enables large-scale production, it doesn’t seem to work for innovation. The problem is that while this approach enables large-scale production, it doesn’t seem to work for innovation.

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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? .”

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. Orica is now codifying the decision logic of the most experienced blasting managers through predictive modeling to serve up personalized recommendations on demand.

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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.

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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.

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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'

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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.

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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?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers. 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. The result will be innovation. Andrew Liveris.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

I’ve been in contact with Heiny and her team at Target over the last year about the program she helped build to drive product innovation and more sales. The list of no-no ingredients is long — 1,600 chemicals tracked or regulated by NGOs and governments around the world. So why are sustainable products surging now?

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

A label may read, for example : “WARNING: This product contains a chemical known to the state of California to cause cancer.” ” Many consumers regard this cancer warning as comparable in severity to cigarette warnings, even though the risk levels depend on the chemical present and often differ markedly.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

After the 2005 explosion, the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board pushed BP to focus more on safety. By contrast, a non-safety focus, such as efficiency or innovation, is associated with avoiding forgoing the opportunity to do something that is indeed appropriate, such as holding back a new product that might be error-free.

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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.

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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.

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