Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

Siri is super, Alexa is awesome, and Cortana’s quite clever, but better bots and digital assistants aren’t going to determine personal productivity’s data-driven future. Tomorrow’s most effective executives will merge and marry workplace data and analytics to digitally design more-productive versions of themselves.

KPI 9

KPI Directory Human Capital Self-aware 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

While most of the discussion revolved around reducing emissions targets, global leaders also discussed the need for a circular economy , which essentially involves decoupling economic growth from the extraction and consumption of scarce resources with negative footprints and making existing resources productive for as long as possible.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chemicals Engineering Energy 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. Investing in a supply-side solution such as seawater desalination can be as much as four times as costly as water reuse or other resource productivity options.

Energy 8

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Although the ghost of the Great Man still haunts leadership studies, most of us have recognized by now that successful organizations are the product of distributive, collective, and complementary leadership. I was once asked to facilitate in a group coaching intervention for the leadership team at the subsidiary of a large chemical company.

Leadership 14

Leadership Chemicals Execution Influence 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

They also stressed organizational learning (meaning, capturing the methods of Lean so that other parts of the organizations could adopt them). Chemical company Air Products has adopted nearly every approach for sustaining improvement from all four religions. Brad Power is a consultant and researcher in process innovation.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14