The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 10, 2010

Here are some examples of perceptions stated as facts: “It’s cold (or hot) in here.&# “The iPod (or some other brand) is the best mp3 player on the market.&# “Ford (Chevy,Honda, etc) is the best car maker.&# “Avatar (The Hurt Locker, The Blind Side, etc.) The iPod is the best mp3 player on the market.

Engineering 212

Engineering Tips FAQ Video 212

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

There are all sorts of strategies in today’s business – at the top is corporate strategy, followed by a slew of functional and sub-functional strategies ranging from marketing to waste management. We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.”

Strategy 74

Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 74

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. World authority on branding and culture transformation. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Liz Smith – Chairman and CEO, Bloomin’ Brands (Outback, Flemings, Carrabba’s, Bonefish Grill) – one of the world’s largest casual dining companies.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

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. Data-Driven Marketing. The science of storytelling and brand performance. Marcus Winther/Getty Images. Insight Center. Sponsored by Google.

B2B 8

B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. For multinational firms, Russia’s attractiveness lies primarily in the size and sophistication of its market.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Why are some brands able to be at once both global and local — to successfully seize the energy of grassroots movements and at the same time leverage corporate assets on a massive scale — while others only come off as artificial and pandering? Pepsi Refresh failed because it had no relevance to the brand’s operations or heritage.

Media 8

Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

In an era of intense globalization, rapid demographic change and accelerating technological progress, the best companies for leadership recognize the value of innovation, putting it at the heart of their corporate culture and using this targeted, focused innovation to drive shareholder value and improve efficiency.

Innovation 15

Innovation First-mover Advantage Chemicals Agility 15

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.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

We recently visited the brand-new R&D lab of Dr Reddy's , one of India's leading pharmaceutical firms. In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. This lab isn't located in Bangalore or Hyderabad (where Dr Reddy's is headquartered) but in.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

After all, it was hardly a new technology; the first radial tire patents had been filed more than 40 years before. And they’d all seen radial tires take over the European market. after chemicals). market in the first 18 months after their introduction. In the late 1960s, Michelin introduced the radial tire into the U.S.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Whatever your discipline, doing business today means immersing yourself, and your organization, in a wealth of messy, unstructured, real time data from customers, competitors, and markets — and finding ways to use such data visibility to see what's coming. Big Data examines what people say about what they have done or will do.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Merchandising Retail Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. Dual asymmetrical joint venture.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

First one and then two companies took aim at each unit’s market, aggressively selling products at lower prices. When a team of Nobel Prize–winning scientists had launched Siiquent, they’d been ready and willing to sell the company’s gene-based diagnosis technology to all comers. There seemed little point.

Case Study 10

Case Study Price Chemicals Strategy 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Subsequently they become more knowledge-based, as you share technologies, brands and customer intelligence. 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. Take a tobacco company in the U.S.

Social Capital 8

Social Capital Chemicals Industry Cost 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? Now compare that to the context and condition of today’s CHRO role.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

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. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 12, 2018

To do that it has made use of imaging technologies such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET), along with brain wave analysis technologies such as quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG). This makes empathy a handy data-gathering tool that’s employed in the decision-making process.

Organization 247

Organization Self-aware Stress Leadership Styles 247

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The clean tech markets keep growing fast: three of the world’s biggest economies — the U.S., In addition, electric and hybrid cars are about 4% of US auto sales now, a doubling of market share in the last couple of years. So what’s really new this year? Let’s dive in. The Big Picture. came from renewables (solar alone was 72%).

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

As Carlos Tavares, chair of PSA Peugeot Citroën, explained to me, “Unit sales will remain important, but this shouldn’t be our driver… To be ready, we must experiment and learn as markets change.” Brands such as Borders Books and Best Buy spent enormous funds and attention on enhancing in-store capabilities.

Metrics 8

Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 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. McGrath recalls the painful experience of working with a big chemical company that wanted to diversify its business.

Planning 9

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

unilaterally pulls out of the Iran nuclear deal), building contingency plans, and diversifying their portfolio of markets. In the process, the firm is gaining valuable access to millions of new consumers and securing market share. Many companies are assessing their exposure to specific policy decisions (e.g., if the U.S.

Depreciation 9

Depreciation Contingency Plans Policies Marketing 9

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