The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 2, 2020

The findings emerged from an analysis of the 340,000 or so export transactions undertaken by 26,000 UK firms over a five-year period. Sectors such as chemicals, food and drink, and textiles were among the most enthusiastic shifters. Tariff barriers.

Supply Chain 83

Supply Chain Hedge Credit Risk Bureaucracy 83

HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

They are basically designers and can specialise in civil, chemical, electrical, computer, and mechanical fields. For example, chemical engineers earn a median annual salary of $96,616. Percentage of women doctors is 38 percent. The median annual income for a woman engineer, in general, is $65,468. Median annual salary is $70,000.

Human Resources 52

Human Resources Chemicals Software Engineering 52

The Recovering Engineer

MAY 10, 2010

When you find yourself communicating with a person who is outgoing and task-oriented (primary Dominant behavioral style), remember these key communication tips: Get to the point quickly — offer the results or conclusions and then your data or analysis. Give them options — they want the opportunity to choose.

Tips 277

Tips Engineering FAQ Emotional Intelligence 277

Building Personal Strength

JUNE 27, 2011

And rather than electricity, your brain computer is powered by neurotransmitter chemicals, which produce a valence. Was it a software problem - bad analysis, problem solving skills or planning skills? But my analysis is by itself significant. Nevertheless, the result is the same. I never knew the answer.

Software 90

Software Merchandising Chemicals Analysis 90

The Recovering Engineer

JULY 29, 2010

The decision was to do a “cost-benefit analysis&# of our new situation. do your “cost-benefit analysis&# and choose one of these options: Take It Accept the change with all of its good and bad components, and realize that it is your choice to stay. Did it offer us more positive or more negative? Here’s the thought.

Cost-Benefit Analysis 114

Cost-Benefit Analysis Workshop Engineering FAQ 114

Women on Business

DECEMBER 2, 2010

For others, adults, Buddy was a “chemically imbalanced” adult man who thinks and dresses like an elf running around through the streets of New York City. Buddy is a human raised by elves, therefore, does he fall into the “human” or “elf” category? For some, say children (most likely his primary target audience), Buddy is an elf.

Brand 215

Brand Press Release Discount Customer Loyalty 215

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2018

While different pricing capabilities may be important for a particular situation, the analysis showed that top performers exceed their peers primarily in three areas. Our analysis also revealed just how much excelling across multiple pricing capabilities pays off.

B2B 10

B2B Price Survey Company 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

For a micromarket strategy to work, however, management must have the courage and imagination to act on the insights revealed by this type of analysis. Consider the case of a chemicals company. On the basis of this analysis, the company redeployed its sales force to exploit the growth.

B2B 13

B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

Orica used the data to build pre-blast modeling and post-blast measurement and analysis, packaged in a user-friendly online system called Blast IQ. In another old-line industry, agriculture, Monsanto has steadily enhanced its core commodity chemicals business with data and analytics-based services to expand the value elements delivered.

B2B 8

B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

The list of no-no ingredients is long — 1,600 chemicals tracked or regulated by NGOs and governments around the world. In one room, at the behest of the two big guns of retail, sat the largest consumer product, chemical, and fragrance companies. But now they’re actively pushing the supply chain to invest better options. .”

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. For example, after its spin-off from International Paper, Arizona Chemical drastically changed its market approach from a drive for volume to margin optimization.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

Many of Dow chemical's products, such as its insulation and solar shingles , are energy intensive to make. Lifecycle analysis isn't new, of course. David Struhs, of C3, similarly highlighted this holistic perspective. But track them through end-use and you find they that save energy over their lifetime.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Chemicals Energy System 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The US-based company used to be a diversified industrial group, with activities in all types of glass, chemicals, paints, optical materials, and biomedical systems. From our analysis of a number of core shifts and conversations with the CEOs who have undertaken them, we have drawn five keys to success: 1. Allow time and persevere.

Company 10

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 12, 2018

To do that it has made use of imaging technologies such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET), along with brain wave analysis technologies such as quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG). This makes empathy a handy data-gathering tool that’s employed in the decision-making process.

Organization 247

Organization Self-aware Stress Leadership Styles 247

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

When Clorox entered the "green" cleaning market in America, routine trend analysis had revealed that while the overall cleaning products market was stagnant, the "green" niche was growing. But the fact remains that any trend, however early it's identified or robustly defined, can't tell you how to succeed.

Trends 15

Trends Chemicals Marketing Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

To fuel their analysis, Graetz and Michaels employ new data from the International Federation of Robotics to analyze the use of industrial robots across 14 industries in 17 countries between 1993 and 2007. More recently, other analysis has shown that the pervasive IT revolution supported 0.60% of labor productivity growth and 1.0%

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Cost GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

This will lead to significant gaps in areas such as engineering, petrol-chemicals, utilities, defense manufacturing, education, healthcare, and air traffic control. Here are a few thoughts about what you can do: Conduct a demographic risk-analysis of your team or organization.

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Chemicals Health Care Planning 9

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.

Long-term 10

Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

With semiconductors we could calculate cheaply, so activities for which arithmetic was a key input, such as data analysis and accounting, became much cheaper. In contrast, the value of film-related chemicals fell – we wanted less of them. An example is photography.

Film 8

Film Cost Technology Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

Even small amounts of blue light inhibit the sleep-promoting chemical melatonin, meaning that the displays of smartphones are capable of producing this effect. This entailed “within persons” analysis, meaning we compared each individual’s daily data only to that person’s own data on other days.

Short-term 10

Short-term Chemicals Organizational Behavior Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

We partnered with the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology to do a sophisticated chemical analysis of drinking bowls excavated from the tomb of the king of Phrygia, in what today is central Turkey. So in 1999 we reverse-engineered a 2,700-year-old brew.

Blue Ocean Strategy 8

Blue Ocean Strategy Library Chemicals Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). These findings are the result of an analysis of participants’ answers to the question: “Please indicate the 3 political issues most relevant to you as a corporate director.” banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Healthcare (e.g.,

Politics 8

Politics Telecommunications Policies Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

However, look at these findings through the lens of a cost-benefit analysis. First, from a neurochemical perspective, Dr. Eytan emphasizes that our brains are more relaxed during walks due to the release of certain chemicals. What we found adds support to the notion of walking meetings being beneficial for workers. Most likely not.

How To 8

How To Cost-Benefit Analysis Bond Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2012

As has been documented in Fortune , former directors of Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Washington Mutual, and Wachovia Bank resurfaced in no time on other corporate boards like Verizon, Dow Chemical, Hewlett Packard, and Nike.

Ethics 10

Ethics Chemicals Short-term Report 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Rob Cross and I discovered this in research we did on energy mapping, using organizational network analysis to reveal the network of energy in the workplace. In a large petro-chemical company, for example, we found a lot of de-energizing relationships — and most of them emanated from the leaders. The results are quite revealing.

Energy 8

Energy Health Care Leadership Pipeline Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

In fact, among the 65 industries and almost 6,000 companies we studied across the globe, no industry had a TSR variation that was lower than 30 percentage points, and the variation in one industry, chemicals, was a whopping 206 percentage points. For them, industry was not destiny. So how do the winners do it?

TSR 8

TSR Industry Company Airlines 8

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.

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

First, Maryann Keller, a former auto analyst, notes that, historically, GM hasn’t invested in root-cause analysis. Both Ford and Chrysler’s hierarchies place safety directors closer to the CEO, and management experts told the AP that “safety ranks higher at other companies as well, especially food, drug, and chemical makers.

Root Cause Analysis 8

Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

A company like Dow Chemical is a success story in this way. This, of course, takes time and support. The company has promoted a culture of health for more than 30 years, with countless peer-reviewed studies showing that employees’ health has improved and company costs have been contained.

Planning 8

Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

The research also provides a snapshot view and analysis of gender diversity across countries and industries. The first, Ready-Now Leaders: Cultivating Women in Leadership to Meet Tomorrow’s Business Challenges by DDI and The Conference Board, identifies “confidence” as one of the few but significant leadership differences between the sexes.

Diversity 120

Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

The researcher at Johns Hopkins predicted that the Budweiser spot would be a winner after conducting a two-year analysis of 108 Super Bowl commercials. A story can go where quantitative analysis is denied admission: our hearts. If Keith Quesenberry were a betting man, he would have cleaned up. That’s exactly what makes it so powerful.

Storytelling 21

Storytelling Tools Power Advertising 21

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

Ironically, BP's new CEO acknowledged the need for just such a broad analysis. But, if BP has done a more comprehensive analysis of the leadership and organizational problems which led to the Gulf explosion than it revealed in its narrow September 2010 accident report, it has not made the details public.

Analysis 14

Analysis Report Operations Document 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

It is of even greater importance if a major act of terrorism involving nuclear, chemical, biological or cyber weapons occurs, either in private sector facilities or public spaces that impact private employers. Such analysis then has to be transformed into a response plan. A similar set of problems bedevils Japan.

Crisis Management 15

Crisis Management Crisis Management Chemicals 15

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 24, 2023

Nonetheless, the new analysis, which examines the role of foreign-born innovators living in the US, is the first of its kind to utilize patents as a direct measure of output by such innovators.

Innovation 75

Innovation Diversity Chemicals Technology 75

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. His analysis of commodity availability on a finite planet is compelling, thorough, and absolutely fascinating. In January, China "seized" its rare earth metals (meaning it wouldn't export them anymore). The total: 145 million euros.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

For instance, intelligent failures can add more value than predictable successes, and low-cost experimentation trumps analysis. If Visa and American Express are not focusing on who is competing to fill this need – the jobs the customer needs to get done – they could miss this opportunity in their competitive analysis.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

With all of the changes and uncertainty, companies in a wide range of industries – from autos and chemicals to electronics and appliances – are moving quickly to rethink supply chains and make them more resilient. However, they are encountering some formidable challenges. Bureau of Labor Statistics and U.S. Census Bureau data.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10