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.

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Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 9, 2019

We tend to think of addictions as ingesting a substance that temporarily makes an individual feel better or more relaxed (being addicted to alcohol or drugs, for example), but it’s broader than that… and sometimes less obvious that a behavior has crossed over into addiction. A review of 83 studies on addiction led Sussman et al.

Chemicals 207

Chemicals Content Self-aware Long-term 207

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

Here’s an example. The goal was to jointly reinvent the customer’s data management system. The key resources were owned by another function that was not involved in the process and had no incentives to lend the resources. In the B2B space, companies tend to be driven by specific business goals and priorities.

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B2B Innovation Company Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

With the advent of digital imaging, Kodak was outpaced by other companies that could better achieve consumer goals. Kodak had built a successful enterprise producing cameras, film, and photographic paper and chemicals, but what people wanted was images, and so when a better way to get those images was found, its customers followed.

Health Care 16

Health Care Levitt Film Chemicals 16

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

AUGUST 20, 2012

Ground-level intelligence is critical to this part of the process. 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.

Innovation 15

Innovation Chemicals Price Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2016

Let’s look at four examples of how different corporations responded when faced with this question. This example comes from an entertainment company that makes a handful of large bets a year — worth several hundred million dollars each — on entertainment properties. Data and analytics embedded in IT.

Operations 8

Operations Agility Chemicals Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

But some of the most interesting examples of innovation come from new additions to the BCL Top 20 list. These examples illustrate five practices that any company can adopt to create a culture of innovation: 1. Create a safe space for innovation.

Innovation 16

Innovation First-mover Advantage Chemicals Agility 16

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. Fleming focuses on cross-pollination in the context of “big D” Development, which often involves recombination of existing knowledge to serve commercial goals.

Diversity 8

Diversity Team Automotive Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2014

And serotonin, that feel-good chemical at the heart of the Prozac revolution, bonds teams together more powerfully than the best-intentioned offsite. But really understanding what makes these chemicals so powerful requires diving deeper into their impact on motivation, learning, and creativity. This drives the creative process.

Environment 11

Environment Chemicals McKinsey Creativity 11

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

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

Terry Starbucker

JULY 4, 2010

Leading a group of people is a lot like conducting a grand experiment, where the “scientist&# ( the leader ) fills a laboratory ( the business ) with test subjects ( the team ), and then sets up parameters, calibrates goals, and eventually makes a hypothesis on each one of them. Then, every day, those hypothesis get tested.

Chemicals 222

Chemicals Leadership Blog Comparison 222

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Following the Challenger explosion, NASA did take concrete steps to correct flawed organizational processes. For example, it increased both the number and status of safety personnel, and it strengthened safety operating procedures. ” Over time, though, several processes promote gradual forgetting.

Organization 8

Organization McCombs Pharmaceuticals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

For example, interns at PricewaterhouseCoopers championed a social audit practice. The company committed to goals of being water neutral by 2012, carbon neutral by 2017, and ultimately zero waste. Accounting and consulting firms are often highly responsive to the social demands of their employees.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2012

For example, when Google launched a big data-driven program to identify what separated their top managers from the rest, and they ended up with bromides such as "be a good coach," "empower your team" and "be a good communicator.". In short, he is an empire builder, and we don't have to look far to find examples of empire-building bosses.

Management 16

Management Gordon Welch Chemicals 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

In November 2015 Geisinger Health System launched its ProvenExperience program – a wide-ranging cultural and process reengineering initiative whose long-term goal is not just to assure the best customer experience in healthcare, but to offer the best customer experience of any industry. Underlying Principles.

System 8

System Quality Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

That process might work for conventional or ongoing business lines, but new ventures, which are less predictable, require a different set of planning and control tools. That’s where the discovery-driven planning (DDP) process comes in. Not so fast. Linear plans. Too much funding up front.

Planning 9

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

One of the biggest lessons we learned in the process of creating the report is one-time events masquerading as health promotion programs – that is, activities not integrated into a comprehensive workplace health promotion strategy – are likely to fail. A company like Dow Chemical is a success story in this way.

Planning 8

Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

In the description of Wilderotter, strategy needs to become “a collaborative process where different opinions can be put on the table” and “different options can be reviewed and discarded.” But to raise the bar, some boards are moving from simply observing talent to actively cultivating it.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey CEO Participative Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

A big part of the attraction of the corporate structure is that it allows for both quicker and more-long-term-oriented decision-making than the political process tends to produce. General Electric, where Heineman was senior vice president for law and public affairs, is one obvious example.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis CEO Long-term 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 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

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. .”

Operations 17

Operations Chemicals CEO Metrics 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

The classic example of repeated institutional failure, of course, is NASA. The original response from GM was not to look for the root cause because that wasn’t part of the company’s thought process. “The goal was to insulate the senior executives and hope that nothing happens.”

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

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. and respond to chemical signals allows these relatively simple creatures to form such complex units.

Innovation 8

Innovation Team Chemicals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

In pursuit of this goal, I committed Desso to becoming 100% Cradle-to-Cradle by 2020. Starting in our biggest business — carpet tiles — our managers and staff have gone through the grinding process of identifying every single chemical in our products.

Strategy 11

Strategy McKinsey Chemicals Armstrong 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

” This is just one example of the dysfunction that exists in cross-functional teams. maintaining alignment with the company’s corporate goals. For example, if the PGT includes vice presidents of engineering, design, marketing and product, a project team could include managers and directors from those functions.

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Team Project Software Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Billionaires Bill Gates and Sergey Brin are funding experiments to grow meat in labs, a process that – once people get past any “ick” factor – could greatly reduce the footprint of producing meat-based protein. Goals are not the same as outcomes but they matter a lot – they set the bar within sectors, driving competition and performance.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 10

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. for " every manufacturer, component, and process in apparel production." The goal: to reduce negative environmental and social impacts of the $1.4 Malthus strikes back: Coca-Cola takes an $800 million hit on commodity costs.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

” In more recent times, a British chemical engineer named Paul Thomas pronounced a vision “that one day we will be able to detect a previously undetectable tumour metabolising inside a human lung simply by asking a patient to breathe into a device.” Numbers are processed in the analytical system.

System 8

System Long-term Chemicals Benchmarking 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Discovery-Driven Growth : A Breakthrough Process to Reduce Risk and Seize Opportunity by Rita McGrath. 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.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

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. the utility NRG – which gets the vast majority of its power from fossil fuels — set some remarkable public goals , committing to cut carbon emissions by 50% by 2030 and 90% by 2050.

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Executive functions that help us with advanced thought processes like strategy, trust building, and compassion shut down. That's partly due to another neurochemical process. For example, you might agree to give people extra time to explain their ideas and to listen without judgment. It is also, unfortunately, the most common.

Chemicals 9

Chemicals Consensus Bond Learning-by-Doing 9