The Horizons Tracker

JULY 23, 2020

They argue that while chemical cleaning products are effective at cleaning such surfaces, it’s a highly labor intensive task to ensure they are cleaned repeatedly, especially in larger facilities. Uncertain terrain. Given the advances made by the technology since Amazon bought Kiva in 2012, this shouldn’t be a major hurdle.

Banking 93

Banking Environment Chemicals System 93

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 2, 2020

Sectors such as chemicals, food and drink, and textiles were among the most enthusiastic shifters. The very act of diversifying trade patterns itself does not come without any risk, as transport costs are likely to grow, and companies are forced to operate in unfamiliar markets with unfamiliar bureaucracy. Tariff barriers.

Supply Chain 91

Supply Chain Hedge Credit Risk Bureaucracy 91

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

The ceramic filter is a clever and innovative technology that is widely utilized across various industries today. Ceramic filters are well established and popular for hot gas filtration for the reason that they possess outstanding thermal and chemical constancy. The reduction of emissions is something that is particularly important.

Industry 50

Industry Chemicals Comparison Efficiency 50

HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

They mostly operate out of grocery and drugstore pharmacies, others are employed in hospitals or in clinical settings. It is a fast growing field and attracts a lot of entrepreneurs and innovators. They are basically designers and can specialise in civil, chemical, electrical, computer, and mechanical fields.

Human Resources 52

Human Resources Chemicals Software Engineering 52

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?

Innovation 17

Innovation Chemicals Price Learning-by-Doing 17

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. and the U.K.

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

MARCH 11, 2011

Many of Dow chemical's products, such as its insulation and solar shingles , are energy intensive to make. But an explosion of IT tools is making it easier for companies to get an ultra-high-resolution (and high-altitude) picture of the upstream and downstream resource use associated with their products and operations.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Chemicals Energy System 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2016

A new set of relationships is being formed within companies around how people working in data, analytics, IT, and operations teams work together. Data and analytics represent a blurring of the traditional lines of demarcation between the scope of IT and the responsibilities of operating divisions. Data and analytics embedded in IT.

Operations 8

Operations Chemicals Agility Supply Chain 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.).

Supply Chain 18

Supply Chain NGO Short-term Competitive Advantage 18

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

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. Diagnostics developed for emerging markets must be rugged, resistant to wear and tear, simple to operate, and temperature-resistant.

Marketing 14

Marketing Chemicals Resistance Guidelines 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Operating margins for firms publicly listed in the US show a substantial and sustained rise. Firms engage in political “rent seeking”—lobbying for regulations that provide them sheltered markets—rather than competing on innovation. Profits are up. Corporate valuations are up as well.

Pharmaceuticals 14

Pharmaceuticals Politics Price Chemicals 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Led by people with expertise in disaster relief, around 200 volunteers, mostly students, have fanned out in teams to visit every rescue shelter in northern Japan to identify needs and ensure that the shelters operate efficiently. Then students in college, they started talking about the need to create a society with a new value system.

Crisis 17

Crisis COO Chemicals Transportation 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths. When a company had dozens of potential competitors in various geographic regions, there was an incentive to innovate before the other guy does. In the guitar business , too.

Pharmaceuticals 14

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Entrepreneur 14

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. She was at sea, however, in a more operational role. The innovator: leadership as creative idea generation. What can be done to prevent a situation like the one with Kate?

Leadership 15

Leadership Chemicals Execution Influence 15

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

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

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. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers. Some are recent graduates.

Real Estate 11

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Chemicals 11

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?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

If CEOs are going to operate for stakeholder value — rather than just for shareholder value — then their pay ought to be structured in a way that supports them doing so. This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System.

TSR 12

TSR CEO Incentives Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

She didn't initiate the conversations by tugging on the professors' heartstrings, highlighting SHE's efforts to improve girl's and women's lives, but rather by challenging the scientists to help her solve a complicated new chemical engineering problem. I've found," says Scharpf, "that the common language is the one of emotion.".

Franchising 17

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 17

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

So it's no wonder that business started to wake up to the serious danger that storms and shortages present to their operations, both from direct damage to property and from massive production interruptions (i.e., A list of floods that devastated lives, homes, and countries this year would be tragically long. business continuity").

Supply Chain 17

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 17

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. And citizens, using new social media tools and old-fashioned marches, rose up to drive change.

Chemicals 15

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 15

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. Starting from explosives and farming chemicals, these B2B companies have embedded their expertise in powerful software platforms to expand beyond the traditional products.

B2B 8

B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

In nature, barriers — between organic and inorganic chemicals, between land and sea, between species, between everything — have been built, tested, overcome, rebuilt, and overcome again with almost endless repetition. So how do we operate in an effectively open-source world without barriers?

Chemicals 9

Chemicals Open-book Technology System 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

In a wide variety of industries — from computers to chemical processes to a whole range of service businesses — the source for most of the commercially successful new products is customers, not R&D. Despite its reputation for innovation, and the fact it was in a robust growth market, the firm was close to shutting down the unit.

CEO 11

CEO Airlines Marketing Software 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

Chemical company Air Products has adopted nearly every approach for sustaining improvement from all four religions. Brad Power is a consultant and researcher in process innovation. What's more, the company helped develop Hammer's PEMM concept and is now training Lean managers.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

” Peter was amused to see Emanuel struggle with the description of his sophisticated research instruments as “machines” and his vast array of chemical and biological consumables as analogous to disposable razor blades. Both companies had been attractive acquisition targets for Scherr.

Case Study 14

Case Study Price Chemicals Strategy 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I talked with Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, who together with Ian MacMillan, of the University of Pennsylvania’s business school, developed this classic methodology for planning innovation. McGrath recalls the painful experience of working with a big chemical company that wanted to diversify its business.

Planning 12

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Continuous light interface production , or CLIP, uses chemical reactions to better control the transformation of liquids into solids. This technology starts with a plastic or metal powder, but instead of solidifying the powder with a laser, it uses chemicals sprayed from 30,000 tiny nozzles at a rate of 350 million dots per second.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Technology Industry Film 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

The most frequently cited motivation was the mitigation of business risk from potential disruption of operations, supplies, or reputational damage, cited 38% of the time, followed by the motivation to adhere to industry norms of transparency, traceability, environmental responsibility, and other accepted standards, cited 27.6% of the time.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

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. For example, installing a rapidly deployable flood barrier around your campus can help keep your buildings operational during megastorms. The result will be innovation.

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator,” stated Francis Bacon. As with many clusters, a university sits at its center: founded in AD 1088, the Studium of Bologna was the major educational innovation of Europe’s second millennium.

Education 8

Education Pharmaceuticals Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

At the hoary age of 128, it had already beat the odds twice over when it lost its place to chemical maker LyondellBasell at close of trading this year on September 4 th. Founded in 1886 as a mail-order watch retailer, Sears was already 71 when it became an original member of the S&P 500 in 1957.

Retail 12

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

How can you make core business operations more sustainable? Chairman & CEO, Dow Chemical. Regardless of your views on the who, what, when, and why of climate change, the pursuit of sustainable processes up and down supply chains can translate into immediate savings — and opportunities for innovation. Marc Benioff.

Project 8

Project Henderson Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

For example, it increased both the number and status of safety personnel, and it strengthened safety operating procedures. After the 2005 explosion, the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board pushed BP to focus more on safety. But learning waned as avoiding launch delays became increasingly important.

Organization 8

Organization McCombs Pharmaceuticals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

In everything it does, the company pays as much attention to its growth engine — its ability to manage innovation and launch consistently valuable products — as in any particular garment or device it sells. Haier’s engine for growth developed over years; it is the heart of the company’s identity.

Company 8

Company Engineering Apparel Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8