Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Research is showing that the heart can learn and send out dopamine (a pleasure chemical that influences behavior) and oxytocin (a chemical associated with the feeling of love). Most people, including myself would always associate these chemicals with the brain and nervous system. I do not know any actual examples.

BPM 185

BPM Chemicals Emotional Intelligence Blog 185

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a defined goal. So are goals. Monsanto is a good example. We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.” I’ve seen plenty of examples where giants are successful in spite of themselves.

Strategy 97

Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 97

The Recovering Engineer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

While I was in the Navy and learning to become an Engineering Officer, I learned about the specific margins that were built into both the submarine and the engineering plant to ensure safe operation. For example, do you have enough margin in your relationships to… Withstand a communication error? Survive a missed appointment?

Engineering 169

Engineering Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Chemicals 169

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 Agility Chemicals Supply Chain 8

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a defined goal. So are goals. Monsanto is a good example. We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.” I’ve seen plenty of examples where giants are successful in spite of themselves.

Strategy 74

Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 74

Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

We know better than anyone at any time in the history of humans what it takes to create a workplace where people want to come to work, joyfully invest their efforts and talents into a cause greater than themselves, and go home happy to children who are learning from their examples. It will lose the license to operate from key stakeholders.

CEO 161

CEO Short-term Learning-by-Doing Blanchard 161

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

More than 190 member countries committed to “eliminate poverty in all its forms everywhere” by 2030, together with 16 other “big, hairy, audacious goals” — to use Jim Collins’ memorable phrase. Third, the goals cannot be realized without business participation. during the assembly. The case is clear.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

The company has made increasing commitments to renewable energy as part of its aggressive greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goals (30% by 2020). KP is buying both carbon offsets and significant onsite energy — 11 megawatts of solar and 4 megawatts of fuel cell generation, for example. Why are they doing so much on renewable energy?

Health Care 11

Health Care Operations Supply Chain GDP 11

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. For example, installing a rapidly deployable flood barrier around your campus can help keep your buildings operational during megastorms. Andrew Liveris.

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

One example of this sticks in my mind. The culmination was an incident at an insecticide plant in LaPorte, Texas, where, as a result of a basic process safety management failure , an extremely toxic chemical—methyl mercaptan—was released and two workers were overcome. In all, four workers were killed. At Cummins, Inc.,

Operations 17

Operations Chemicals CEO Metrics 17

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

On January 19, 2012, after 131 years of operation, the Eastman Kodak Company filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. With the advent of digital imaging, Kodak was outpaced by other companies that could better achieve consumer goals. What Business Are We In? The Emergence of Health as the Business of Health Care. bankruptcy court.

Health Care 16

Health Care Levitt Film Chemicals 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

David Walker, for example, described PepsiCo's "ReCon" (for "resource conservation") tool, a diagnostic for understanding in-plant water and energy use and creating strategies for reducing them. Many of Dow chemical's products, such as its insulation and solar shingles , are energy intensive to make.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Chemicals Energy System 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The goal of ARD is to produce denim in a sustainable way by tackling the three main ecological issues the industry faces: water, energy, and chemicals. For instance, denim industry leaders in Amsterdam have come together, with the help of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, to form the Alliance for Responsible Denim (ARD).

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

For example, Tesco uses vast data sets culled from decades of customers' Clubcard use to make pricing decisions, influence shoppers to buy specific items, and build loyalty. Many homeowners, for example, have connected their alarm systems to security companies; many drivers accept having devices such as mileage trackers in their vehicles.

Retail 13

Retail Wireless Loyalty Chemicals 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2012

For example, in the early 2000s, P&G investigated the cleaning habits of Indian consumers who washed garments by hand. However, the chemical formulations weren't intended for hand washing and could cause abrasions or burns. Since the goal is learning, companies should ensure they keep tests simple and focused.

Innovation 15

Innovation Chemicals Price Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

But the goal of sustained growth remains elusive. Its goals are extremely ambitious; it is not just a pioneer in developing new fabrics for active wear, but in developing wearable electronics. Starbucks, for example, has a strong presence because CEO Howard Schultz, deliberately developed a growth plan grounded in its capabilities.

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Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

My own workplace is an example. Hundreds if not thousands of hospitals have responded to trends such as shorter average hospital stays, fewer surgeries, a shift to outpatient and home care, and reduced reimbursements by consolidating or overhauling their operations and laying off staff. We’ve certainly had to change too.

Policies 8

Policies Chemicals Bond Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Our goal is to power all new data centers with 100% clean and renewable energy, relying more heavily on wind and solar farms. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont.

Project 8

Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. Take James Inglesby at Unilever, for example. Some have decades of experience in their industry. Some are recent graduates.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

It''s a lawyerly, exhaustive, exhausting rundown of all the things that could possibly weigh on the earnings of a giant global bank, from regulatory changes to loans going bad to a liquidity crisis to the possibility that "one or more of its employees causes a significant operational breakdown or failure."

Banking 8

Banking Crisis CEO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Their goal was to help entrepreneurs and those inside established companies adopt a new approach, “one better suited to high-potential projects whose prospects are uncertain at the start.” You start by creating a “reverse income statement” for the project (you can see an example in the original article ).

Planning 9

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Many also find it useful to track succession and promotion—for example, by holding annual reviews of a company’s top 30 to 50 key executives. Donald Gogel, the chairman and CEO of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, explains that “our board members can operate like a highly effective search firm. Engaging the field.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey CEO Participative Automotive 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. However, their views were not taken into account in the decision to launch the shuttle.

Organization 8

Organization McCombs Pharmaceuticals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Individuals may not focus on long-term benefits of a given action when a short-term reward (for example smoking a cigarette, consuming a large pizza, or spending hours watching television) is more appealing. Senior leaders not only speak of its importance to the organization’s success, they lead by example.

Planning 8

Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

He’d been the one to suggest that Unamano aim to quadruple the revenues of the small businesses it targeted, an audacious goal given the long odds facing any emerging-market start-up. He’d found a receptive chemical-company owner who was providing lab space and even some financial support. operations. An Acute Need.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

For example, you might simply say to yourself: “I’m stressed about my son failing school.” In fact, the evolutionary goal of the stress response was to help boost the body and mind into enhanced functioning, to help us grow and meet the demands we face. ” Or “I’m stressed about our year-end numbers.”

Stress 8

Stress How To Learning-by-Doing Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Scharpf and the SHE team, for example, first identified in banana-plants a local agro-waste fiber, and after experimenting, concluded that it had the potential to be an absorbent, cheap, safe material. They then approached MIT to partner on enhancing the process to make it more absorbent.

Franchising 14

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

The classic example of repeated institutional failure, of course, is NASA. “The goal was to insulate the senior executives and hope that nothing happens.” Managers coded their operations green at the first couple of meetings to show how well they were doing, but Mulally called them on it.

Root Cause Analysis 8

Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

How about by meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals? The goals, a set of 17 stretch goals and 169 related targets championed by the United Nations, are ambitious. ” Incrementalism has its uses, but it is worrying to see even committed business leaders treating the goals as an incremental change agenda.

Chemicals 12

Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Most innovation teams inside large companies are set up to operate like well-oiled machines. One of our key findings was that teams functioning more like machines – blindly following highly defined processes and execution plans — were the least effective at achieving their goals and coming up with innovations.

Innovation 8

Innovation Team Chemicals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Here's the rest of my top 10 stories, with callouts for companies and examples that typify the trend. 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., business continuity").

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

One high profile example is Walmart’s commitment to source an additional $250 billion in products made, assembled, or grown in the United States. Such a policy alone could have a major impact on companies operating in the United States. Its medium-term goal — if its first U.S. Advances in manufacturing technology.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The authors then show how to best execute specific initiatives, test major project assumptions, and develop a culture that values disciplined experimentation and learning over meeting mindless and unrealistic goals. Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

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. To make sense of all of this activity, I made a list of the year’s big themes, looking for the bigger story across multiple examples. In the U.S.,

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

Trade barriers also block competition: For example, Chinese electric carmakers must use batteries made in China and can’t purchase them from Japanese and Korean sources. billion in subsidies included solar panels, chemicals, pipe, steel wire, wheels, wind towers, and kitchen appliances. negotiators. .”

GDP 8

GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8

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. Nine big brands with operations in Ohio publicly pressed the state to reinstate energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8