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

MAY 4, 2017

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. One example comes from Patrick Thomas , CEO of the advanced materials company Covestro.

Chemicals 11

Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 11

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?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

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. You’re working on a new venture and you know you’ve got to create a plan to execute it. Not so fast.

Planning 8

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 8

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.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

The most frequently cited motivation was the mitigation of business risk from potential disruption of operations, supplies, or reputational damage, cited 38% of the time, followed by the motivation to adhere to industry norms of transparency, traceability, environmental responsibility, and other accepted standards, cited 27.6% of the time.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

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. Pepsi Refresh failed because it had no relevance to the brand’s operations or heritage. Its founder, Saul Kaplan , is a self-professed innovation junkie. Let me explain.

Media 8

Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 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 14

Crisis COO Chemicals Transportation 14

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. 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 15

Health Care Levitt Film Chemicals 15

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.).

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain NGO Short-term Competitive Advantage 15

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.

Energy 8

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 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

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.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

CEO Peter Loscher declared Germany's plans to move aggressively toward renewables "the project of the century.". 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.,

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15