Strategy Driven

JULY 18, 2024

In this article, we’re going to explore some fresh and innovative strategies that can help you cultivate success. Think local restaurants, breweries, or farmer’s markets. Once you know your USP , make it the centerpiece of your marketing efforts. Remember, the most fertile soil for innovation is an open mind.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 13, 2022

He outlines a number of core ways companies can pursue “purpose plus profit”, including: Create a new model or market. When you truly embrace social responsibility you can often create new markets, such as the various neobanks that have incorporated sustainability from day 1. Transform the business.

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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. That’s much more motivating than saying, “I’m going to go to work today and I’m going to sell a can of chemicals.” They’re free to innovate and create market-differentiating, competitive ideas.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The number of women in high paying jobs and entering the job market has risen progressively through the years, but there are many hurdles in their journey up the ladder. . It is a fast growing field and attracts a lot of entrepreneurs and innovators. For example, chemical engineers earn a median annual salary of $96,616.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 24, 2023

The country’s aging population, coupled with a decline in the working-age population, has created a massive imbalance in the job market. For example, Sumitomo Chemical, a prominent Japanese company, has gradually raised its retirement age from 60 to 65 with full pay.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

In an era of intense globalization, rapid demographic change and accelerating technological progress, the best companies for leadership recognize the value of innovation, putting it at the heart of their corporate culture and using this targeted, focused innovation to drive shareholder value and improve efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

What they found is that America's patent system only provides positive incentives for innovation in two industries: pharmaceuticals and chemicals. Anyone innovating outside of those two industries would be better off if there were no patent system at all. If my chemical compound is not covered by a patent, then I'm in the clear.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2012

Intelligence should drive better innovation, but unless it is strategically collected and used, it functions like a summer beach novel — an engaging distraction. Thoughtful companies intertwine customer intelligence throughout the three phases that characterize most successful innovations. Want more intelligent innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Launching first in an emerging market is seen as a nonstarter because of commercial, regulatory, and political risks. market last in some cases. Miniature wells patterned onto the paper contain chemicals that react with samples of blood, urine, saliva, or sweat, which causes the paper to display a reading with a change of color.

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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.

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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. 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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

Our research attempts to shed light on this debate, by focusing on the history of immigrants as technological innovators. innovation, we linked the birthplace of millions of individuals from Federal Censuses between 1880 and 1940 to millions of inventors from patent records. Yet the role of immigrants in U.S. of all U.S.

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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. ” Embracing market risk in our careers is a high-percentage move. “A chink in the armor. If so, try it.”

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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. And understanding the why is critical to innovation. It misses the "thick" understanding that is critical to meaningful innovation. But data mining does not equate to developing "customer intelligence."

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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. is very low in the near-term). Self-interest: Species provide us medicine and sources of food.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

financial services sector went from 13,000 of independent banks to half that number, while the top ten banks grew from 20% market share to 60%. As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths.

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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. Work gets delayed because people feel like they have to wait and "check in" before they can begin or change anything.

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The top 25 food and beverage companies have lost $18 billion in market share since 2009. The risk to traditional grocers and Big Food is not just market share declines but category obsolescence. Another way to survive is to raise the price dramatically by going super-premium or by becoming very focused in local markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

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. If so, then high profits portend diminished productivity growth.

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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? DVDs replaced video cassettes in many markets seemingly overnight. It is likely to start relatively slowly in established markets. This isn't unusual. The last telegraph message was sent in.2005.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2011

Anyway, during my travels, I've kept a running list of observations, travel tips for those of you coming to Asia for either a short trip or an extended stay, and thoughts on innovation, all gleaned from my first year based here. If you ask Filipinos to do a skit as part of an innovation workshop, stand back; there is some real local talent.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

In most companies, marketers are in charge of assessing the competition. Because of this, close to 60 percent of all competitive intelligence professionals report to marketing. Yet the majority of marketers fail to use their competition analysts strategically, instead using them to gather more “recon” data.

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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.

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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

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Their marketing departments. Marketing promotions don't resonate and can't be tied to measurable results. In particular, getting customers to market and sell for you. These approaches are often beyond the reach of traditional marketing mindsets and practices — that's why I'm addressing the CEO. Here's how.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The lure of establishing an organization that uses market mechanisms to achieve its mission is substantial. Some innovative and determined professionals working in world's largest and most complex corporations are choosing to stay put and use their corporate platforms to lead change. Some have decades of experience in their industry.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

At least, that’s how the story is often told today, and that telling meshes with how people see innovation: a single, simple observation, a flash of brilliance, and — eureka! Take a look at any significant innovation, and the myth of the lone genius and the “eureka moment” breaks down. The truth is messier.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

The cheerleaders cite an array of heartening examples, including a $4 billion investment by Dow Chemical to boost its ethylene and propylene capacity on the U.S. manufacturing industries, including aerospace and defense equipment, chemicals, industrial components, automotive equipment, and electronics. manufacturing sector.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

And they’d all seen radial tires take over the European market. after chemicals). market in the first 18 months after their introduction. 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. incumbents.

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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. Data-Driven Marketing. The service offers the possibility of enhancing an engineer’s marketability and growth and development. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

First one and then two companies took aim at each unit’s market, aggressively selling products at lower prices. Realizing that Siiquent had little hope of earning high margins on test instruments, its executives decided to seek sustainable profit from biological and chemical compounds, test kits, and other consumables.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

While "running out" isn't really the right phrase, it's clear that delivering many commodities to market is getting harder and more expensive (we don't dig for oil a mile under the ocean for the heck of it). Markets have a remarkable way of sorting the wheat from the chaff. trillion market for clothes and shoes.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The companies that occupy the limelight are typically diversified giants that achieve growth through constant expansion into new markets and the introduction of additional product lines (just think P&G, GE, and Microsoft). Quick test: name one company that does one thing and does it very well.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. All the major players in the personal care product value chain — the giants of consumer products, chemicals, and fragrances — were there (as was I).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Because the "unmentionable" subject of menstruation is taboo, the market failure — supplying cheaper pads — had never received the attention it deserved. In countries like Mozambique and Rwanda, where the per capita GDP is under $1,000, the average annual cost of $33 (12 months x 5 days x 5 pad/day x.11/pad)

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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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