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.” They’re free to innovate and create market-differentiating, competitive ideas.

CEO 161

CEO Short-term Learning-by-Doing Blanchard 161

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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

A final adaptation should be done through technological innovation, which is how Big Food really got its start. One promising innovation is MATS technology, or microwave assisted thermal sterilization, created at Washington State University. Frozen food and canning were gigantic industry breakthroughs.)

Industry 15

Industry Supply Chain Long-term Outsourcing 15

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

JUNE 12, 2014

Positive comments and conversations produce a chemical reaction too. Behaviors that increase cortisol levels reduce what I call “Conversational Intelligence” or “C-IQ,” or a person’s ability to connect and think innovatively, empathetically, creatively and strategically with others. Consider Rob, a senior executive from Verizon.

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

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

APRIL 25, 2017

Some questions have what I like to call a catalytic quality. That is, they do for creative problem-solving what catalysts do in chemical processes: they dissolve barriers and accelerate progress down more productive pathways. Perhaps my favorite example is the MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge.

Drucker 9

Drucker Apparel Chemicals Globalization 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. Small Firms Are Not More Innovative.

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Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2019

Businesses in all industries must take note and must take action, and with these top innovations leading the way the future is indeed looking brighter. The Rise of Sustainable Innovation. Sustainable innovation has arisen for two main reasons: Public Awareness. Top Sustainable Innovations to Be Aware Of. Pineapple Fabric.

Innovation 51

Innovation Fashion Chemicals Environment 51

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

He said that the EU had set aside €650 million to fund innovative ways to change consumers’ usage of raw materials, reduce electronic and food waste, develop new recycling techniques, come up with new construction materials and new ways of using old ones, and create new energy sources out of waste.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chemicals Engineering Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Kodak had built a successful enterprise producing cameras, film, and photographic paper and chemicals, but what people wanted was images, and so when a better way to get those images was found, its customers followed. If we can get the images we want in a better way, why use photographic film, paper, and chemicals?

Health Care 15

Health Care Levitt Film Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

after chemicals). In much of the 20 th century, technological innovation produced products that had plenty of room for improvement, opening up opportunities for high-end disruption. Television picture quality remained unsatisfactory as the technology evolved from vacuum tubes to solid state to digital to HD.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

The quality, validity and economic value of college degrees and MBAs have rarely been under such sustained assault. As Moneyball and the rise of quants in professional sports worldwide attest, the ability to relentlessly improve the quality and specificity of performance analytics is key to success. Everybody eats.

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Class Education Supply Chain Sports 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

As the 24 th biggest industrial consumer of water, Coca Cola has now invested $2 billion to reduce water use and improve water quality in the communities in which it operates. SabMiller has also invested heavily in water conservation, including $6 million to improve equipment at a facility in Tanzania affected by deteriorating water quality.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Underlying the program were two critical premises: First, that unhappy patients often sit in silence, and that giving them a voice will reveal unsuspected opportunities for improvement; and second, that patient experience and quality of care are linked. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Increasing Quality. Insight Center.

System 8

System Quality Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

” The more creatively, comprehensively, and innovatively these selves can be digitized, the greater the opportunity to help workers develop and deploy the optimal traits and qualities they desire. Personalized analytics become mirrors and lenses for refocusing professional effectiveness. But why stop with industrial assets?

KPI 8

KPI Directory Human Capital Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

The camera was as big as a toaster, took 20 seconds to take an image, had low quality, and required complicated connections to a television to view, but it clearly had massive disruptive potential. After all, the first prototype of a digital camera was created in 1975 by Steve Sasson, an engineer working for … Kodak. Insight Center.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Link the pay of CEOs in the utilities industry to metrics that measure the safety of their operations; require the CEOs of chemical companies to improve environmental outcomes in the communities where they do production; hold hospital CEOs accountable for the quality of their care; make the CEOs of consumer products companies pursue innovations that (..)

TSR 9

TSR CEO Incentives Long-term 9

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 24, 2023

Their study revealed that immigrants have made a disproportionate contribution to innovation in the U.S. The share of patents produced by immigrants was slightly higher when adjusted by the number of citations that each patent received over the ensuing three years, a vital indicator of their quality and usefulness.

Innovation 76

Innovation Diversity Chemicals Technology 76

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

Business drivers examined include: Building high-performance cultures; engaging employees; cultivating a customer-focused culture; creating alignment and accountability; enhancing organizational talent; building strategic partnerships and relationships, driving process innovation and driving efficiency. Wellins, Ph.D.,

Diversity 120

Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

In a wide variety of industries — from computers to chemical processes to a whole range of service businesses — the source for most of the commercially successful new products is customers, not R&D. Despite its reputation for innovation, and the fact it was in a robust growth market, the firm was close to shutting down the unit.

CEO 8

CEO Airlines Marketing Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

Followers of Lean, which is based on the Toyota manufacturing approach that made it the leader in automobile quality ( the Toyota Production System ), believe top executives need to break down strategic objectives into implications for process improvements to get everyone moving in the same direction.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

To ignore that information source is to lessen the quality of the intelligence. It also began innovating new services offerings to diversify its portfolio. Man-Wai Chow is leading the strategic intelligence efforts at Eastman, a chemical company. .” Troy is a passionate preacher of this approach.

Marketing 8

Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Lululemon was also slow to develop quality-control systems in manufacturing (thus the unfortunate pants), with fewer than 30 employees overseeing 90% of the 30 million units of clothing per year. After former Starbucks executive Christine Day was named CEO, Wilson also faced a passionate-founder''s crisis: He didn''t know what to do.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Crisis Crisis Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

I studied cross-functional teams in industries including communications, software, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, agricultural, chemical, manufacturers, retail, utility, consulting, internet software, government, insurance, and banking. Cross-functional teams have become ubiquitous because companies need to speed innovations to market.

Team 8

Team Project Software Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2016

Simply put, if they have a biological quality, perhaps we need to look at how biologists examine living systems, from individual cells and organism all the way up to ecologies. It might be time to take the organic nature of these technologies seriously. Technologies are enormously complex and have evolved over time.

Construction 8

Construction Technology System Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

In contrast, when Samsung and Sony were deciding whether to launch LED TVs, which offered better picture quality than plasma TVs at a slightly higher price, there was lower uncertainty about demand because customers were already buying TVs. In other words, if you are in a high uncertainty industry, you must excel at innovation…or die.

Uncertainty 22

Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 22

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

I was once asked to facilitate in a group coaching intervention for the leadership team at the subsidiary of a large chemical company. The innovator: leadership as creative idea generation. Getting this match wrong can bring misery to all concerned and cause considerable damage. The builder: leadership as an entrepreneurial activity.

Leadership 14

Leadership Chemicals Execution Influence 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

Entirely new business lines and markets will spring up, which will, in turn, give rise to still more innovation. In the brain, a neuron is a cell that transmits electrical or chemical information. Getting good quality large scale data is the biggest barrier to adopting deep learning.

Technology 8

Technology Software Learning-by-Doing Training 8