The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The organisation is typically done along the physical and chemical properties of the material that are most of interest to material scientists themselves. There’s no better time to start developing those skills than now.

Chemicals 59

Chemicals Proposal Team Emotional Intelligence 59

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. Including the brain trust on your organizational development team. I see a fervent desire to create workplace cultures that emulate the collaborative, supportive environment celebrated at WD-40 Company.

CEO 161

CEO Short-term Learning-by-Doing Blanchard 161

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. US News and World Report #1 Best Hospital in the United States – Fortune ‘100 Best Companies to Work For,’ 14 consecutive years.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

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

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.

Business Model 8

Business Model Innovation Company Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

All three companies nurture and energize talent, carving out the necessary resources to invest in recruiting, selecting and growing the people who will become their future leaders. So it's no surprise that GE, P&G and IBM occupy the top three spots in Hay Group's seventh annual Best Companies for Leadership (BCL) ranking.

Innovation 15

Innovation First-mover Advantage Chemicals Agility 15

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 9

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 9

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.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

In fact, 94% of the senior executives who responded to a recent global survey conducted by our firm, Strategy&, said that growth was a priority for their companies. A few companies, however, do succeed in growing year after year. In short, growth comes from the entire company, not from any particular product or service.

Company 8

Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

First, the global goals campaign represents a significant new opportunity for companies that view emerging and frontier markets as their source of long-term growth. Second, with the public declarations by many companies to help with the goals , there is likely to be competitive pressure. The case is clear.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

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 10

Innovation Budgeting Chemicals Seminar 10

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

Spending too much energy producing perfect work instead of developing the quick-and-dirty solution needed now. . Many companies strive to innovate and develop fresh products and services.? Dopamine is our bodies’ pleasure chemical. Excellence: ?Spending Preparation: ?Planning

Chemicals 186

Chemicals Creativity Cooper Learning-by-Doing 186

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. A growing number of B2B companies are using data and analytics to add services that bring new elements of value to customers, and in some cases new sources of revenue.

B2B 8

B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Even companies that claim to have a long-term orientation worry about whether R&D is worth the investment. If everyone followed that logic, however, there’d be little innovation to walk out the door or to acquire! The likelihood of staying increases with both education and company tenure. vincent tsui for hbr.

Long-term 9

Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

To design and develop new products, it’s not uncommon today to get your research and engineering folks to collaborate with customers and other external stakeholders. In effect, you give these people the right to participate in your innovation process and influence its final outcome. Commitment and expectations were high.

B2B 8

B2B Workshop Chemicals B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

But purchase intent does not always translate to real sales, and companies have often struggled to make sustainable products more mainstream. A new Conference Board study, as CFO magazine reported , reveals some startling growth in greener products at a dozen big companies like Kimberly-Clark, Dow, GE, Siemens, Toshiba, and more.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Having a strong domestic manufacturing base is vital to the United States maintaining its world leadership in innovation. Since joining the Harvard Business School in 2007 (after a long career at IBM, Kodak, Silicon Graphics, and other companies), I have visited hundreds of factories. When R&D and Manufacturing Must Be Near.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Offshoring Engineering Pharmaceuticals 14

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. So the picture is truly nuanced.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Automotive Supply Chain Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Tactics include, for example, labeling claims and how to be clear about what standards we might want to develop, and also about disclosure, when he mentions materiality. 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.

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

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 8

Drucker Apparel Chemicals Globalization 8

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. Many IT organizations, having achieved this original mission, now are turning to the next thing, which is innovation. Is there a “right” way to structure these relationships?

Operations 8

Operations Agility Chemicals Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Of these 5 articles, some were self-explanatory: " Nation spurs development of new, green technologies ". " Two articles didn't scream sustainability until you read them: " Chemical company paints rosy picture for the future ," which opens with the question, "How can a chemical company earn more money through eco-friendly products?"

NGO 14

NGO Chemicals Energy Hotels 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

Earlier this week I visited the Palo Alto headquarters of Better Place , the up-start e-mobility services company, to talk about their novel and risky strategy to put an electric car in every garage. Many of Dow chemical's products, such as its insulation and solar shingles , are energy intensive to make.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Chemicals Energy System 14

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. How did the city make the leap?

Education 8

Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Since I prepared that article, new developments have only strengthened the case for a 3-D future – and heightened the urgency for management teams to adjust their strategies. What was a niche technique is morphing into a broad-based movement driven by multiple technologies and many kinds of companies.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Technology Industry Film 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

He advises some of the world’s biggest companies on environmental strategy. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. business community, green is still a separate pursuit — frankly, its usually ghettoized within companies and industry events alike.

NGO 14

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Consider Diagnostics for All , a Boston-area startup developing paper-based diagnostic tests the size of a postage stamp. 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. market last in some cases.

Marketing 11

Marketing Chemicals Resistance Guidelines 11

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. But data mining does not equate to developing "customer intelligence." And understanding the why is critical to innovation. Armed with data, companies feel they "know" their consumers.

Trends 14

Trends Chemicals Marketing Innovation 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 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

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 8

Diversity Team Automotive Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

He said that the EU had set aside €650 million to fund innovative ways to change consumers’ usage of raw materials, reduce electronic and food waste, develop new recycling techniques, come up with new construction materials and new ways of using old ones, and create new energy sources out of waste.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chemicals Engineering Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

After the 2005 explosion, the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board pushed BP to focus more on safety. We built on qualitative data from NASA’s Challenger and Columbia accidents to develop a model about the role of serious errors in organizations’ cycling between learning and forgetting.

Organization 8

Organization McCombs Pharmaceuticals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

Analytics are critical to companies’ performance. ” The more creatively, comprehensively, and innovatively these selves can be digitized, the greater the opportunity to help workers develop and deploy the optimal traits and qualities they desire. Insight Center. Putting Data to Work. Sponsored by Accenture.

KPI 8

KPI Directory Human Capital Self-aware 8

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.

Pharmaceuticals 9

Pharmaceuticals Politics Price Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

giants basically needed to start their companies all over again — practically nothing of what they knew about producing bias-ply tires could be reused. after chemicals). And so, even with the price premium, Michelin was the only company that had figured out how to produce radial tires profitably at scale.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Most companies’ value chains are heavily dependent on water and energy resources. Automobile manufacturers, for example, create products that rely on metals, chemicals, oil, and gas, which are among the most energy- and water-intensive industries.

Energy 8

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. We exclude companies with a traditional CSR program that supports employee volunteering in the community – this does not by itself qualify as sustainability.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8