HR Digest

MARCH 12, 2020

The management person deals with sales, marketing, and branding of a company and its services and products; the HR consultant does the same job but his or her focus is on the people in the organization. Another option is to go into sourcing temporary staff for organizations that have large projects and need to fulfill it in a specified time.

Career 87

Career Human Resources Outsourcing Compliance 87

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I am very excited to announce the selection of the 100 Coaches in our pay-it-forward project! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn. Three iconic leaders inspired the 100 Coaches project. 100 COACHES. Corporate CEOs.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Terry Starbucker

MAY 22, 2016

It was the Marketing Manager, and he had been in the cable business for over 20 years. Why are you doing this – you don’t have a Marketing staff. My boss put me in charge of the project, from end to end. It’s now a massive Superfund site because the pit is laden with heavy metals and dangerous chemicals.

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Letter Leadership Call Center Long-term 171

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2020

To Broaden Your Market Reach. The final cost will depend on: The scope of the project. Generally, you must ensure that your physical building and the equipment you use pose no physical, biological, or chemical contamination risk to your final product. The costs of hiring an SQF consultant can vary. How elaborate the process is.

How To 65

How To Supply Chain Document Licensing 65

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Learn about the future economy project. Harvard Business Review interviewed the CEOs and other business leaders who signed up to the Future Economy Project, our initiative spotlighting businesses’ sustainability agendas. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. Andrew Liveris.

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Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

That’s much more motivating than saying, “I’m going to go to work today and I’m going to sell a can of chemicals.” They’re free to innovate and create market-differentiating, competitive ideas. As leaders, we want to contribute our influence to projects that our tribe members own. I’m going to create an opportunity.

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CEO Short-term Learning-by-Doing Blanchard 161

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2011

While I was working with one team to develop a set of options to develop more talent should the fundamental answer turn out to be "no," another team set out to create a model of the company's projected talent supply and demand. His eventual conclusion? There were no facts to be found. in water softeners.

Chemicals 14

Chemicals Project Industry Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

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Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2018

Data-Driven Marketing. To understand which capabilities matter most, we studied a subset of top-performing companies, as defined by increased market share, self-described excellent pricing decisions, and execution of regular price increases. We gathered their self-rating of 42 pricing capabilities and outcomes. Insight Center.

B2B 9

B2B Price Survey Company 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

The list of no-no ingredients is long — 1,600 chemicals tracked or regulated by NGOs and governments around the world. In total, these brands are projected to reach revenues of $1 billion at Target alone this year. With this level of topline growth, it’s no wonder that Target wants more options.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2011

Maybe you can identify with a marketing professional, an MBA we'll call Sophie, who worked as a product manager in a consumer products company. Here's how Sophie described it: I don't understand why R&D kills so many of my projects when I am supposedly measured on new product development!

Chemicals 15

Chemicals Creativity Micromanagement Wilde 15

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.

Planning 8

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

The business—a regional construction company with a special expertise in building waste chemical and water treatment plants—has never lost money in its 30 year history, and it''s grown steadily. "So Success was defined as: bids easily won and well executed, satisfied customers, profitable projects, and fun for all.

COO 8

COO Chief Operating Officer Strategic Planning Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

We developed dozens of new innovation ideas with managers in the company but the board, though initially enthusiastic, never took the time and energy to engage with the projects, directing their attention on day-to-day operational issues instead. As a result the innovation projects died on the vine. Reluctance to experiment.

Business Model 8

Business Model Innovation Company Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The lure of establishing an organization that uses market mechanisms to achieve its mission is substantial. The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. Some are recent graduates.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

First, the global goals campaign represents a significant new opportunity for companies that view emerging and frontier markets as their source of long-term growth. According to estimates from McKinsey, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025 — a significant step up from the 2010 value of $12 trillion.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The article shows how the Dutch firm AkzoNobel is growing in China, particularly through products that help customers reduce environmental footprint in the shipping and building sectors. China Hi-Tech Fair ready to highlight emerging industries ," which describes Chinas largest tech show going on this week in Shanghai.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Consider Staples, the office-supplies retailer, which had tumbled from being the market leader to being a third of the new leader’s size by 1992. The person’s capabilities should fit the challenges facing the organization at the time.

Strategy 8

Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

The forces of lawmaking, jurisprudence and, yes, ethics bring about sufficient transparency, market efficiency and fair business behavior for the conglomerate not to be worth its salt. At the same time, we’re not arguing that conglomerates aren’t effective in emerging markets. Take a tobacco company in the U.S. Quite to the contrary.

Social Capital 8

Social Capital Chemicals Industry Cost 8

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

JULY 29, 2014

Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? What would the capital markets look like today if a similar tack had been taken when the CFO role was ripe for transformation? Lynanne Kunkle, VP-Global Talent Development and HR-Asia for Whirlpool, is a case in point.

CFO 9

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

If their projections turn out to be right, we should get ready for a bumpy road ahead, with market volatility and negative surprises. chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). Boards are clearly aligned with business leaders and executives on their outlooks for 2016.

Politics 8

Politics Telecommunications Policies Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

In most companies, marketers are in charge of assessing the competition. Because of this, close to 60 percent of all competitive intelligence professionals report to marketing. Yet the majority of marketers fail to use their competition analysts strategically, instead using them to gather more “recon” data.

Marketing 8

Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

My client (a different chemical company) later had a similar explosion. Prevention of leaks in customer information and losses in company market position. Crises can have many liabilities upon companies, including loss of profits and market share. Body of Knowledge. Crises of one sort can and will happen to every company.

Crisis Management 77

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 77

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Do marketers have a commitment to act in the face of climate change? Here's where marketers come in. Companies don't just remove toxic chemicals from products because it's the right thing to do; they do so because their heavily female consumer base demands it. What's our role now to help change things? This isn't really true.

Marketing 8

Marketing Energy Globalization Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

When I was in the midst of researching what caused cross-functional teams to succeed — and finding that many of them failed — I discovered a deeply dysfunctional development project in a huge multinational IT company. The company had invested $100 million in the project, which involved three divisions. You and Your Team.

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Team Project Software Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

How can we create $12 trillion a year in market opportunities by 2030? But a recent report concludes that meeting the goals in just four out of 60 sectors (food and agriculture, cities, energy and materials, and health and wellbeing) could indeed open up market opportunities worth up to $12 trillion a year in less than 15 years.

Chemicals 10

Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 10

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. is very low in the near-term). Self-interest: Species provide us medicine and sources of food.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain NGO Short-term Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

While "running out" isn't really the right phrase, it's clear that delivering many commodities to market is getting harder and more expensive (we don't dig for oil a mile under the ocean for the heck of it). Markets have a remarkable way of sorting the wheat from the chaff. trillion market for clothes and shoes.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

According to the Global Impact Investing Network, the market for impact capital, currently sized at $60 billion, could grow over the next decade to $2 trillion, or 1% of global invested assets. Everyone agrees that impact investing is on the rise. There is no right or wrong impact class—what matters is identifying preferences.

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Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

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.” Of course, this type of quantification is essential for business success.

System 8

System Long-term Chemicals Benchmarking 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital. Time after time, new initiatives and projects are rolled out with great fanfare only to end up abandoned and dubbed expensive flops. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

All too often, when marketers talk about their “social strategy,” they really mean a digital marketing strategy implemented on social platforms, rather than using social dynamics to benefit their business. Pepsi actually lost market share and fell to number three in the cola wars for the first time in modern history.

Media 8

Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

To achieve these goals, organizations are using more part-time, project-based freelancers to supplement their internal staff. Each year 40 high potential young leaders from around the globe come together and work in teams on projects like “How do we grow our business in the chemicals industry?”

Agility 8

Agility Development Workshop Incubator 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. For some, it’s about the commercial opportunity to appeal to a new or growing market of rights-focused consumers.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

stock markets. For example, for companies to know where their tantalum comes from — the metal is widely used by the electronics, chemical, pharmaceutical, and aircraft turbine industries — they need to survey their suppliers and persuade them to survey their suppliers, and so on.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Productivity Products Company 8