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.

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The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 27, 2010

He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. He is an engineer by nature, by training, and experience. Tweets that mention Effective Communication Skills: You Don’t Know Until You Ask : Guy Harris: The Recovering Engineer -- Topsy.com says: March 27, 2010 at 5:35 pm [.]

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Skills Engineering FAQ Video 200

In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 29, 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.” Their size ($49.2

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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.” Their size ($49.2

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Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 97

The Recovering Engineer

JANUARY 31, 2010

It could be a business direction decision – what product to launch ( or cancel), how to offer a service, or what market to enter ( or leave). He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. He is an engineer by nature, by training, and experience.

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Engineering FAQ Learning-by-Doing Self-aware 105

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.”

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Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 74

The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 31, 2010

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FAQ Letter Engineering Video 114

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 service offers the possibility of enhancing an engineer’s marketability and growth and development. Insight Center.

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B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

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 17, 2016

They do so by building powerful growth engines. If you build a robust growth engine on a strong foundation, rather than seeking individual opportunities, you can be confident knowing that sustainable expansion will follow. Other companies known for their capabilities are similarly focused on building growth engines.

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Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

I’ve been watching the global economy for decades, and it seems to me that growth in the United States is about to speed up, while growth in the emerging markets is slowing down. This makes the United States, for many chemical companies, the preferred place to manufacture. Dow Chemical is expanding its investment in the U.S.

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Chemicals Pharmaceuticals Energy Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Early generations drew from physics and engineering. Continuous light interface production , or CLIP, uses chemical reactions to better control the transformation of liquids into solids. These chemicals speed the shaping and hardening of the powder by a UV lamp. The market is taking these claims seriously, as well.

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Chemicals Technology Industry Film 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Why did this happen?

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Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

economy at this time – specifically electricity and chemicals, which accounted for 13.9% born engineers. Our evidence is therefore consistent with classic notions of discrimination, where the wage income of certain types of individuals in the market is lower due to factors unrelated to their productivity. of all U.S.

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Innovation Long-term Technology Chemicals 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

At the Chemical Heritage Foundation's recent seminar on advanced materials innovation, a half-dozen R&D leaders collectively commanding billions in spend couldn't have been more excited about the market potential for their new materials. He wasn't being glib. They don't want geeks and nerds undermining those relationships.

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Innovation Budgeting Chemicals Seminar 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

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. Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. and the U.K.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

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. Companies with more than 500 employees not only do 5.75

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Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

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 11, 2014

And they’d all seen radial tires take over the European market. after chemicals). market in the first 18 months after their introduction. Propeller planes yielded to jet engines. In the late 1960s, Michelin introduced the radial tire into the U.S. This was no surprise to the top five U.S.-based incumbents.

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Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

Given the forecasts of uncertain global economic growth, we might expect companies to hold off from hiring new employees and to limit whatever international hiring they do to emerging markets. aerospace & defense, construction & engineering, industrial conglomerates, professional services, textiles); IT & Telecommunications (e.g.,

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Health Care Talent Management Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare.

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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

“In all cities and markets and in the countryside,” the Reinheitsgebot reads, “only barley, hops, and water may be used for brewing beer.” But experts think the law was really about protecting markets, not consumers. So in 1999 we reverse-engineered a 2,700-year-old brew. Don’t get me wrong.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Library Chemicals Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

This means that when the batteries no longer work, the manufacturer can re-engineer or recycle them for future use. This means that they can be re-utilized for secondary or emerging markets with a less sophisticated infrastructure. Annually, it now refurbishes some 30,000 engines, 20,000 gearboxes, and 16,000 fuel injection systems.

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Supply Chain Chemicals Engineering Energy 8

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.” They start in other markets, with other customers, or with stealth incursions into the edges of your market.

Metrics 8

Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Bolognese yarns were sold to the doges of Venice or exchanged for spices and salt, and they were also exported to the large international markets, to France, Germany, England and even to the East. They are known for demonstrating a special sensitivity to the market needs of the specialized manufacturers who use their services.

Education 8

Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 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

JUNE 3, 2013

Is the problem that P&G produces outstanding specialists in marketing but not general managers who can run the business? aerospace & defense, construction & engineering, industrial conglomerates, professional services, textiles); IT & Telecommunications (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

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Succession Telecommunications Biotechnology Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

I would go even further to contend that multinational corporations— more than governments, and more than NGOs and nonprofits—have the human and financial capital, technology, international footprint, power of markets, and financial motivation to solve the world’s most daunting problems.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Health Care Resources Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

Think of them as “selvesware,” analogous to recommendation engines for books to read or movies to watch. The designer could run their designs through “visual recommendation engine” selvesware that offers bolder, more energetic styles based on their sketches and use cases. But why stop with industrial assets?

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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.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

But an awful lot of these jobs command very high-wages in law, finance, accounting, consulting, advertising, engineering, design, software, healthcare, scientific research, architecture, entertainment, hospitality, and many other areas. True, emerging market countries are getting better at what they do, and even Europe is on the upswing.

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Intellectual Capital Magazine Pharmaceuticals Creativity 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 Where else in their regional market (North America) are there projects like the ones that fit the company''s sweet spot?

COO 8

COO Chief Operating Officer Strategic Planning Project 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In consumer packaged goods, SC Johnson has sourced raw materials from farmers in Rwanda, partnered with local providers to improve hygiene and sanitation in low-income urban communities in Kenya, and chosen to eliminate harmful chemicals from its production processes in spite of the negative consequences for its market share.

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Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

You can also consider a business that awakens a massive industry then dominates the market shares globally at the same time, busting misconceptions about the way the food service industry must treat employees. $16 In southeast Michigan – arguably the toughest labor market in the world. UAW wasn’t too happy about that.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

You can also consider a business that awakens a massive industry then dominates the market shares globally at the same time, busting misconceptions about the way the food service industry must treat employees. $16 In southeast Michigan – arguably the toughest labor market in the world. UAW wasn’t too happy about that.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

aerospace & defense, construction & engineering, industrial conglomerates, professional services, textiles); IT & Telecommunications (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). consumer durables & apparel, retailing, education, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g.,

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

A company sets up a joint venture with a partner that has complementary assets and capabilities, in order to limit up-front investments, speed up market entry, and reduce risk. A company that misses one generation may find it hard to catch up, especially if it has also lost internal process engineering know-how.

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Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8