Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

Collaborative innovation is a hot topic in the B2C space, where it overlaps with crowdsourcing, but we see B2B players taking an interest as well. Nonetheless, innovating with customers should work well in B2B, as it should give companies a deeper knowledge of their customers and promote a trusting relationship.

B2B 8

B2B Innovation Company Workshop 8

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. Technology. It’s also now vital — for those very same reasons.

Chemicals 11

Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

To achieve these goals, organizations are using more part-time, project-based freelancers to supplement their internal staff. ” It means that training is going to have to be just as agile as the workforce — where speed, flexibility, and innovation are key. Today’s workforces are designed for speed and flexibility.

Agility 8

Agility Development Workshop Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

In effect, you give these people the right to participate in your innovation process and influence its final outcome. Recently, the German chemicals giant collaborated with another chemicals company. Collaboration Innovation' In our experience, two or three is the right number.

B2B 8

B2B Workshop Chemicals B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention.

NGO 15

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

Data-driven selvesware could help the global project manager hoping to foster greater cooperation and camaraderie within their team. Their selvesware could perform social-network analytics, prioritize project milestones, and draft post-meeting communiqués designed to get their team interacting more with each other.

KPI 8

KPI Directory Human Capital Self-aware 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. Others, including technology and telecommunications companies, are major customers of — and suppliers to — those industries.

Energy 8

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Scenario planning is as essential for strategy formulation as it is for the design of next generation technologies and industries. Credit given for the development of novel/innovative metrics for performance assessment (for example, attendance figures as a "team economics" variable). Cooking Science & Technology. Everybody eats.

Class 8

Class Education Supply Chain Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

The web did not invent community-driven brands – just think of Harley Davidson — but technology has surely made the strategy more popular. Consider Pepsi’s Refresh project , which sought to replace $20 million in Super Bowl spending with a social platform that funded good works. It is now a cult favorite in the innovation world.

Media 8

Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 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

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

OCTOBER 27, 2015

So marketers today have unprecedented “weapons” and “recon” in terms of technological tools and access to data. In 2014, Atrion — a privately owned Technology Services company based in Warwick, RI — had a problem. It also began innovating new services offerings to diversify its portfolio.

Marketing 8

Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 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. Renewables have been trouncing fossil fuels for a few years as the costs of the newer technologies have dropped remarkably fast.

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 15

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. So one technology and company failed miserably (and perhaps the government made a bad investment choice). China, China, and China.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15