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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B2B Innovation Company Workshop 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

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

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

MAY 21, 2014

Governing boards might seem like the last place for innovation. They are, after all, the company’s steadfast guidance system, charged with keeping an even keel in rough waters. Some boards have taken the principle further by forming their own innovation committee. To that end, Diebold recruited a new CEO in 2013, Andy W.

Innovation 8

Innovation Committee Charan Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

In his 2008 book Patent Failure , Bessen and co-author Michael Meurer argue that after taking the cost of litigation into account, the effect of patenting in all industries except pharmaceuticals and chemicals was to reduce the profitability of innovation rather than to increase it. Innovation Technology'

Innovation 8

Innovation Pharmaceuticals Chemicals Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013. Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Why did this happen?

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

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.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

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. This is both because the resulting knowledge might walk out the door, as employees join other firms or start their own, and because you can acquire firms who have the needed technology. Small Firms Are Not More Innovative.

Long-term 9

Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

Jamming has become a popular way to unearth innovations — bringing together people of many different backgrounds to creatively brainstorm around a company's competitive challenges, expressed as "problem statements." Yet although the process is widely hyped, many companies struggle to make them work.

Innovation 8

Innovation Blue Ocean Strategy Brainstorming Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

I’ve spent two decades consulting extensively for consumer packaged goods companies. The top 25 food and beverage companies have lost $18 billion in market share since 2009. A final adaptation should be done through technological innovation, which is how Big Food really got its start. last year.

Industry 15

Industry Supply Chain Long-term Outsourcing 15

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

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

JUNE 12, 2014

Positive comments and conversations produce a chemical reaction too. Behaviors that increase cortisol levels reduce what I call “Conversational Intelligence” or “C-IQ,” or a person’s ability to connect and think innovatively, empathetically, creatively and strategically with others.

Positioning 15

Positioning Chemicals Ryan Discount 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Often dismissed in the popular mindset as a tool for home-based “makers” of toys and trinkets, the technology is gaining momentum in large-scale industry. Impressive next-generation technologies are overcoming the last generation’s drawbacks while adding new capabilities. Now we’re seeing much bigger stakes.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Technology Industry Film 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Today when we talk about business “ clusters ,” we’re usually talking about the technology industry in Silicon Valley, the financial sector in London or New York, or automakers in southern Germany. The major innovation lay in an extraordinary machine already in use in Lucca, about 150 kilometers southwest of Bologna.

Education 8

Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 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

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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

In effect, you give these people the right to participate in your innovation process and influence its final outcome. This sort of collaboration has been well-documented in the B2C context (where it’s often called “crowdsourcing” or “co-creation”), but we see it in B2B companies as well.

B2B 8

B2B Workshop Chemicals B2C 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 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

APRIL 11, 2014

After all, it was hardly a new technology; the first radial tire patents had been filed more than 40 years before. 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). Goodrich, and General Tire).

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 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 20, 2014

In pharmaceuticals, the largest company, Pfizer, is the result of decades of mergers. In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths. Also, consider the need for new products and services in a country full of concentrated industries.

Pharmaceuticals 9

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 9

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. Armed with data, companies feel they "know" their consumers.

Trends 14

Trends Chemicals Marketing Innovation 14

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. The technology is revolutionary because the paper tests can be manufactured for only a few cents and can deliver test results instantaneously.

Marketing 11

Marketing Chemicals Resistance Guidelines 11

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? In both cases the new technology ended up augmenting, rather than replacing existing channels. Despite bold proclamations of industry transformation, legacy technologies often last for a very long time.

Banking 13

Banking Chemicals Technology Video 13

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

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

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

JUNE 16, 2015

” These information-focused leaders emerged as the world changed and the capabilities that companies needed shifted over time. Consider three critical mega-trends: resource constraints and rising commodity prices; climate change and extreme weather; and radical, technology-driven transparency. Insight Center.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Why did an observed technology boom coincide with a prolonged slump in the productivity data? Companies were using computers, but they didn’t seem to be getting any more productive. thanks to its highly technical metal and chemical industries. ” Solow’s quip crystallized a frustrating disconnect in the 1980s.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Cost GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. 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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Since then, using the Net and social networking technologies such as Twitter and Facebook, people in their 20s and 30s have been collecting and disseminating valuable data; collaborating with others they have never met; and creating rescue projects on the fly as well as garnering resources for them.

Crisis 13

Crisis COO Chemicals Transportation 13

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 8

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

automotive manufacturers owned rental car companies in the hopes of maintaining strong unit sales figures by captive fleet purchases (which were also to maintain volume to fulfill their onerous union obligations). Companies in industries facing change have to change their key metrics, often before the new reality is clear.

Metrics 8

Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 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. I've found," says Scharpf, "that the common language is the one of emotion.".

Franchising 12

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 12