The Recovering Engineer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Even when the list starts shifting to personal development, task accomplishment and money issues, there are still relationship based items mixed in. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. I’d lump trust and respect and add training and development to the list.

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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. Including the brain trust on your organizational development team. 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.” Don’t you think?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Learn about the future economy project. Harvard Business Review interviewed the CEOs and other business leaders who signed up to the Future Economy Project, our initiative spotlighting businesses’ sustainability agendas. The result will be innovation. A roundtable conversation with our advisers. Andrew Liveris.

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Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

To achieve these goals, organizations are using more part-time, project-based freelancers to supplement their internal staff. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. What does this mean for workforce learning and development? Today’s workforces are designed for speed and flexibility. Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Some companies could get a jumpstart in their industry in organizing partnerships and even positioning themselves as leaders in sustainable development using the goals as a branding anchor. Realizing the Sustainable Development Goals will improve the environment for doing business and building markets. The case is clear.

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Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

How about by meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals? To help support those moving in this direction, Volans and PA Consulting have joined forces with the United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest sustainable business platform, with over 9,000 corporate members, to create Project Breakthrough.

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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. Collaboration Innovation'

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

When I was in the midst of researching what caused cross-functional teams to succeed — and finding that many of them failed — I discovered a deeply dysfunctional development project in a huge multinational IT company. The company had invested $100 million in the project, which involved three divisions. Leading Teams.

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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.

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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.

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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. The VP of R&D killed my new hand-held mixer three times before it was approved a couple weeks ago.

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Chemicals Creativity Micromanagement Wilde 15

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

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

So you look at past projects, gather and analyze relevant market data, make predictions about how much revenue you’ll be able to generate, decide what resources you’ll need, and set milestones to reach your targets. It’s a technique that any manager can use when developing and launching a new venture. Not so fast.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

Data-driven selvesware could help the global project manager hoping to foster greater cooperation and camaraderie within their team. Their selvesware could perform social-network analytics, prioritize project milestones, and draft post-meeting communiqués designed to get their team interacting more with each other.

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KPI Directory Human Capital Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Automobile manufacturers, for example, create products that rely on metals, chemicals, oil, and gas, which are among the most energy- and water-intensive industries. Similar wastewater projects in Chinese cities are showing that sludge can be converted into valuable products such as vehicle fuels and organic composts.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Consider Pepsi’s Refresh project , which sought to replace $20 million in Super Bowl spending with a social platform that funded good works. Its founder, Saul Kaplan , is a self-professed innovation junkie. It is now a cult favorite in the innovation world. American Express has developed “Small Business Saturday.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

They trained experts in improvement projects (" Black Belts ") who then drove initiatives that achieved large financial results. Many of those organizations then embraced Lean for different set of tools for improvement projects, tools that helped them connect project results to key strategic measures. Consider this example.

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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. See 15 cool biomimicry stories.). They will create an advantage through superior execution.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

So in 2014, Ramsden’s team mocked up a 5-year growth scenario, showing expected growth given historical performance, and an alternate projection that combined growth with predicted declines in the infrastructure side of the business. It also began innovating new services offerings to diversify its portfolio.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

With the support of chemical companies , more than 170 countries also agreed to phase out HFCs , the high global-warming-potential chemicals used in air-conditioners and refrigerators everywhere. days of innovation). We’re seeing some interesting innovation in policy and business practice.

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Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Credit given for the development of novel/innovative metrics for performance assessment (for example, attendance figures as a "team economics" variable). Understanding the chemical and material properties of ingredients is, indeed, a science. The kitchen can and should be a laboratory for innovation. Everybody eats.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion. CEO Peter Loscher declared Germany's plans to move aggressively toward renewables "the project of the century.". The greening of the supply chain.

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