The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 2, 2020

The findings emerged from an analysis of the 340,000 or so export transactions undertaken by 26,000 UK firms over a five-year period. Sectors such as chemicals, food and drink, and textiles were among the most enthusiastic shifters. Tariff barriers.

Supply Chain 94

Supply Chain Hedge Credit Risk Bureaucracy 94

HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

It is a fast growing field and attracts a lot of entrepreneurs and innovators. They are basically designers and can specialise in civil, chemical, electrical, computer, and mechanical fields. For example, chemical engineers earn a median annual salary of $96,616. Women software developers earn a median annual income of $85,488.

Human Resources 52

Human Resources Chemicals Software Engineering 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. Small Firms Are Not More Innovative.

Long-term 11

Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. Orica used the data to build pre-blast modeling and post-blast measurement and analysis, packaged in a user-friendly online system called Blast IQ. Data-Driven Marketing.

B2B 8

B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

Across industries, companies are using the vast amounts of user-generated data to guide innovation of new products and services. And understanding the why is critical to innovation. It misses the "thick" understanding that is critical to meaningful innovation. But data mining does not equate to developing "customer intelligence."

Trends 16

Trends Chemicals Marketing Innovation 16

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

MARCH 11, 2011

Many of Dow chemical's products, such as its insulation and solar shingles , are energy intensive to make. Lifecycle analysis isn't new, of course. Encouraging sweeping innovation, Andrew Winston noted at the meeting, requires asking " heretical questions," questions that demand non-obvious answers. A tall order, maybe.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Chemicals Energy System 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

To fuel their analysis, Graetz and Michaels employ new data from the International Federation of Robotics to analyze the use of industrial robots across 14 industries in 17 countries between 1993 and 2007. More recently, other analysis has shown that the pervasive IT revolution supported 0.60% of labor productivity growth and 1.0%

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Cost GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

We partnered with the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology to do a sophisticated chemical analysis of drinking bowls excavated from the tomb of the king of Phrygia, in what today is central Turkey. Is there an opportunity to innovate, collaborate, and create value at the margins?”

Blue Ocean Strategy 8

Blue Ocean Strategy Library Chemicals Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

With semiconductors we could calculate cheaply, so activities for which arithmetic was a key input, such as data analysis and accounting, became much cheaper. Once prediction became cheap, innovators reframed driving as a prediction problem. In contrast, the value of film-related chemicals fell – we wanted less of them.

Film 8

Film Cost Technology Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

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. I've found," says Scharpf, "that the common language is the one of emotion.".

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 24, 2023

Their study revealed that immigrants have made a disproportionate contribution to innovation in the U.S. are incredibly productive and innovative, and they’re disproportionately contributing to innovation in our society,” the researchers explain. The researchers’ findings were not merely quantitative. “The

Innovation 97

Innovation Diversity Chemicals Technology 97

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

The research also provides a snapshot view and analysis of gender diversity across countries and industries. The first, Ready-Now Leaders: Cultivating Women in Leadership to Meet Tomorrow’s Business Challenges by DDI and The Conference Board, identifies “confidence” as one of the few but significant leadership differences between the sexes.

Diversity 120

Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. His analysis of commodity availability on a finite planet is compelling, thorough, and absolutely fascinating. In January, China "seized" its rare earth metals (meaning it wouldn't export them anymore). trillion market for clothes and shoes.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. For instance, intelligent failures can add more value than predictable successes, and low-cost experimentation trumps analysis. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.

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. Two impressive pieces of analysis made the case that moving to a clean economy is profitable – both for society and for the private sector.

Chemicals 14

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Dow Chemical has reduced energy costs $9 billion since 1994. According to Sunday's op-ed by Cass Sunstein , the Harvard professor and co-author of the great book Nudge , Ronald Reagan embraced aggressive action to solve the problem of ozone depletion because he believed the cost-benefit analysis. But constraints drive innovation.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey GDP Cost-Benefit Analysis Constraint 8