The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 11, 2021

The authors highlight that disposable masks are plastic products that can’t easily be biodegraded. They argue that the scale of mask production has created a problem on a similar scale to that posed by plastic bottles, of which around 43 billion are used every month. .” Bottling it up.

Cost 86

Cost Guidelines Chemicals Environment 86

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MAY 21, 2012

The nice gentleman spraying my son with chemicals was guided by his personal values of courtesy. If your team is responsible for product development, innovation and creativity need to be core values. “I know,” he replied in a reassuring voice. “I I asked him and he said he didn’t mind.” Don’t wait for senior leadership.

Customer Loyalty 226

Customer Loyalty Long-term Chemicals Bottom-up 226

Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

The innovations that allow us teleconferencing, emails, and phone conversations wherever/whenever should increase our free time, but ironically, they’ve just turned our 40-hour work week into a 140-hour work week and caused us to ignore the most innovative, powerful tool in our leadership arsenal: our bodies.

Leadership 182

Leadership Mayo Chemicals Learning-by-Doing 182

HR Digest

AUGUST 24, 2023

For example, Sumitomo Chemical, a prominent Japanese company, has gradually raised its retirement age from 60 to 65 with full pay. This shortage not only affects the productivity and competitiveness of Japanese companies but also hampers economic growth on a national level.

Crisis 52

Crisis Chemicals Policies Trends 52

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Most of the remaining were raw materials, such as fruit and seafood, while the most common imports were manufactured products, such as machinery and chemicals. The results show that the bulk of the country’s trade was in oil, which accounted for 54% of all exports.

Globalization 82

Globalization Class Chemicals Education 82

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 13, 2022

For instance, chemical giant Dow has been focusing its efforts on environmentally friendly construction and industrial safety. The utility company NextEra Energy—originally Florida Power and Light—has increasingly focused on renewable energy production, while the utility AES has moved into solar development and battery storage.

Cooper 98

Cooper Long-term Politics Energy 98

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 2, 2020

Sectors such as chemicals, food and drink, and textiles were among the most enthusiastic shifters. For the largest firms, their dependence on the EU market actually grew, with the researchers suggesting they were perhaps filling the gap left by smaller firms. Tariff barriers.

Supply Chain 83

Supply Chain Hedge Credit Risk Bureaucracy 83

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

Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

We know how crucial it is to having talent who love working for us and who will offer discretionary effort and innovation. 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.” You’ll find yourself creating unsuccessful products that don’t serve your customers.

CEO 161

CEO Short-term Learning-by-Doing Blanchard 161

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

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 16

Innovation First-mover Advantage Chemicals Agility 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

Our research attempts to shed light on this debate, by focusing on the history of immigrants as technological innovators. innovation, we linked the birthplace of millions of individuals from Federal Censuses between 1880 and 1940 to millions of inventors from patent records. Yet the role of immigrants in U.S. of all U.S.

Innovation 10

Innovation Long-term Technology Chemicals 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

For years, the answer to the question “Do people really want to buy more sustainable products?” ” Surveys consistently show that we aspire to buy responsibly , and we even say we’ll pay more for environmental or socially preferable products. So why are sustainable products surging now?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2012

Intelligence should drive better innovation, but unless it is strategically collected and used, it functions like a summer beach novel — an engaging distraction. Thoughtful companies intertwine customer intelligence throughout the three phases that characterize most successful innovations.

Innovation 15

Innovation Chemicals Price Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

What they found is that America's patent system only provides positive incentives for innovation in two industries: pharmaceuticals and chemicals. Anyone innovating outside of those two industries would be better off if there were no patent system at all. If my chemical compound is not covered by a patent, then I'm in the clear.

Innovation 12

Innovation Chemicals Incentives Pharmaceuticals 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

Governing boards might seem like the last place for innovation. New products are, of course, the province of R&D teams or research partners. But new strategies and structures are squarely in the board’s domain, and we have seen any number of governing boards innovating with, not just monitoring, management.

Innovation 8

Innovation Committee Charan Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 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

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. Besides Dr Reddy's, several leading Indian firms are pioneering polycentric innovation: Tata Motors. Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink. Reliance MediaWorks.

Globalization 10

Globalization Innovation Decentralization 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. Potential innovation benefits are literally not worth it. He wasn't being glib.

Innovation 11

Innovation Budgeting Chemicals Seminar 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2018

Jon Buchan, the director of London-based Charm Offensive, a creator of innovative cold emailing campaigns, applies Curry’s disruptive basketball strategy to business: “Find a gap,” Buchan writes. Innovate a product or service from within your position. “A chink in the armor. What is nobody else doing? .”

Career 15

Career Market Risk Chemicals Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Nearly 30 years ago, in 1987, the Nobel-winning economist Robert Solow surveyed the impact of IT on the economy and concluded that “you can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” Why did an observed technology boom coincide with a prolonged slump in the productivity data? It just took a while.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Cost GDP 8

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. Starting from explosives and farming chemicals, these B2B companies have embedded their expertise in powerful software platforms to expand beyond the traditional products.

B2B 8

B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

While the products might bring in steady revenues, the lack of any compelling market-creating offering has left Microsoft with a red-ocean heavy product portfolio—for which the company has paid a steep price. Strategy Competition Innovation' The truth is too many companies are paying a similarly steep price.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Blue Ocean Strategy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

Jamming has become a popular way to unearth innovations — bringing together people of many different backgrounds to creatively brainstorm around a company's competitive challenges, expressed as "problem statements." If your company is one, you may be interested in our experience at the European Center for Strategic Innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Blue Ocean Strategy Brainstorming Participative 8

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

Planning to do work , and usually procrastinating, instead of productively working out just-in-time solutions with just the right resources. . Many companies strive to innovate and develop fresh products and services.? Dopamine is our bodies’ pleasure chemical. Preparation: ?Planning

Chemicals 186

Chemicals Creativity Cooper Learning-by-Doing 186

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Ideally, these warnings provide requisite risk information, allowing people to decide for themselves whether an activity or a product’s benefits outweigh its risks, whether to take those risks, and, if so, with what precautions. Warnings on widely used consumer products are a relatively new phenomenon. How did we get here?

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Mass Marketing System Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

Positive comments and conversations produce a chemical reaction too. They spur the production of oxytocin, a feel-good hormone that elevates our ability to communicate, collaborate and trust others by activating networks in our prefrontal cortex. Behaviors that spark oxytocin, by contrast, raise C-IQ.

Positioning 15

Positioning Chemicals Ryan Discount 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Having a strong domestic manufacturing base is vital to the United States maintaining its world leadership in innovation. Producing biologics involves enough biochemistry, chemical engineering, and cell biology to make a graduate student wince. Manufacturing provides the foundation for many kinds of innovations.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Offshoring Engineering Pharmaceuticals 15

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. R&D Seldom Walks Out the Door.

Long-term 10

Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

The cheerleaders cite an array of heartening examples, including a $4 billion investment by Dow Chemical to boost its ethylene and propylene capacity on the U.S. manufacturing industries, including aerospace and defense equipment, chemicals, industrial components, automotive equipment, and electronics. manufacturing sector.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Automotive Supply Chain Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

To design and develop new products, it’s not uncommon today to get your research and engineering folks to collaborate with customers and other external stakeholders. In effect, you give these people the right to participate in your innovation process and influence its final outcome. Collaboration Innovation'

B2B 8

B2B Workshop Chemicals B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

That is, they do for creative problem-solving what catalysts do in chemical processes: they dissolve barriers and accelerate progress down more productive pathways. This vexing global challenge causes me to wonder, “What if the world’s innovators turned their sights on solving this problem?

Drucker 9

Drucker Apparel Chemicals Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

Many of Dow chemical's products, such as its insulation and solar shingles , are energy intensive to make. But an explosion of IT tools is making it easier for companies to get an ultra-high-resolution (and high-altitude) picture of the upstream and downstream resource use associated with their products and operations.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Chemicals Energy System 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

But I think the interesting part comes when they start to see it as an opportunity for innovations that are financially beneficial as well as socially beneficial. The result will be innovation. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. They’re so far removed from it. Andrew Liveris.

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 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. It reveals what people do, but not why they do it.

Trends 15

Trends Chemicals Marketing Innovation 15