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

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

Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

I remember a time when she had to have a major operation to correct a life-threatening condition. The procedure upset her hormonal system, which caused a chemical imbalance in her brain, leading to depression. I knew that personality manifests itself in behavior and that behavior is triggered by mental processes.

Development 102

Development Succession Learning-by-Doing Chemicals 102

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. If we can measure success, why pay for process? What Business Are We In? bankruptcy court.

Health Care 16

Health Care Levitt Film Chemicals 16

Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 12, 2018

The results of these studies, captured from subjects operating under real or near-real conditions, has put the nature vs nurture debate on leadership to rest. This makes empathy a handy data-gathering tool that’s employed in the decision-making process. Resonant leaders are masters at communicating the bigger picture.

Organization 267

Organization Self-aware Stress Leadership Styles 267

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

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. Improved operational performance will result in fewer injuries. At Cummins, Inc.,

Operations 17

Operations Chemicals CEO Metrics 17

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

For example, [Andrew] Liveris talked about the focus Dow [Chemical] has on great chemistry and designing new sustainable product lines and being willing to cannibalize existing products. For example, installing a rapidly deployable flood barrier around your campus can help keep your buildings operational during megastorms.

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

Many of Dow chemical's products, such as its insulation and solar shingles , are energy intensive to make. But an explosion of IT tools is making it easier for companies to get an ultra-high-resolution (and high-altitude) picture of the upstream and downstream resource use associated with their products and operations.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Chemicals Energy System 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

It’s time for sustainability to be a real goal for businesses striving to ensure a competitive future. How can you make core business operations more sustainable? Chairman & CEO, Dow Chemical. Business Leaders Want to Stay in the Paris Climate Accord. by Andrew Winston. by Tensie Whelan and Carly Fink. Marc Benioff.

Project 8

Project Henderson Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2012

Ground-level intelligence is critical to this part of the process. However, the chemical formulations weren't intended for hand washing and could cause abrasions or burns. There are substantial opportunities to generate real-time intelligence by involving customers in the blueprinting process. For example, at beta620.nytimes.com

Innovation 15

Innovation Chemicals Price Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

High-speed processing is a must, because customers don't linger long. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute have created a system of electronic noses that can smell explosives or other chemical substances. One way to do all this is to encourage shoppers to use an app while they're in the store.

Retail 13

Retail Wireless Loyalty Chemicals 13

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

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.” Another way to enhance board engagement is to assign directors specific operational areas to engage on. Engaging the field.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey CEO Participative Automotive 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

My client (a different chemical company) later had a similar explosion. The goal was to keep litigation from occurring, which was met. Another energy industry client operated coal mines. Thirdly, the communications process served to glean research data that we needed to upgrade the center, its tenant mix and security issues.

Crisis Management 80

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 80

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. ” Step 3: Define operational requirements. Not so fast.

Planning 9

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

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 17, 2012

They then approached MIT to partner on enhancing the process to make it more absorbent. 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.

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

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

JUNE 5, 2014

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.” ’ After that the process loosened up. No one asked, ‘Why are they failing?’”

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

JANUARY 17, 2011

Instead, the Commission's focus in the report is on the immediate causes of the explosion and on the individual and collective failures of BP (owner), Transocean (rig operator) and Haliburton (construction services) to assess and mitigate immediate risks — and to have effective crisis response plans.

Analysis 14

Analysis Report Operations Document 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

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., for " every manufacturer, component, and process in apparel production." business continuity").

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

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

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. And China took serious action, setting a cap on coal emissions by 2020 , which will help it reach the goals of the carbon agreement with the U.S. (a

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13