Strategy Driven

JUNE 4, 2020

Every business should have a personal protective equipment strategy in place whether staff sit at a computer or handle toxic chemicals. Adapting and updating your PPE and broader health and safety processes can be challenging, depending on your industry.

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Strategy Chemicals Training Review 73

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2020

However, with the right resources and a little bit of advice, you can make sure to address every business growth necessity without putting a strain on your business operations- or your mental health. While not necessarily standard in all lawn care software, some of the more advanced iterations will even allow you to track chemical usage.

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Quality Software Efficiency Hedge 75

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 25, 2016

Steve Shifman, CEO of Michelman (a fast-growing specialty chemicals company), told me the need for a learning organization is an absolute essential: “Otherwise the bell curve shifts to the right with today’s rate of change and our knowledge base slides toward the average middle.” Put emphasis on assets, not deficits.

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Competitive Advantage Chemicals Learning-by-Doing Environment 150

Strategy Driven

JULY 21, 2020

Ultimately this positive impact will lead to hiring of many new front-line workers to support these operations. In this blog, I will highlight four challenges that business operations will face to keep their operations running. These new opportunities create new sets of challenges in the COVID-19 Era. and the consumer demand.

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Skills Operations Trends Industry 67

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 operates a cruise ship, safety needs to be a core value. Put processes in place to monitor and support the values being lived on a day-by-day basis. “I know,” he replied in a reassuring voice. “I

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Customer Loyalty Long-term Chemicals Bottom-up 226

ReImagine Work

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Lead your employee through a thought process so they come along with you. Several years ago I lead an SAP implementation project at a chemical plant. If you looked at their inventories, you would know if the operators were using SAP right, or if they needed some follow-up training. Jeremy: Yes. Me: What if you started there?

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CIO Chemicals Ethics Follow-up 100

Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

The brain craves certainty, and when you feel uncertain, the almond shaped structure in the brain called the amygdala releases chemicals into the blood stream that you experience as fear, anxiety and doubt. Yet another reason for negativity is due to our natural and biological response to change.

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Uncertainty Policies Chemicals Learning-by-Doing 255

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2013

After the several recent catastrophic industrial accidents within the United States, including the devastating explosions at a Texas fertilizer plant and Louisiana chemical plant, StrategyDriven wanted to help industrial and utility leaders reduce the risk of similar accidents at their facilities. Download the white paper by clicking here.

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White Paper Industry Risk Management Chief Operating Officer 60

RapidStart Leadership

JULY 6, 2017

The force that fires these rockets upward comes from a simple chemical reaction. Build in some operating space. During them, we get to experience the fun side of reactive behavior as rockets colorfully explode in the sky. But if you leave an escape for these gasses, you avert an explosion.

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Covey Hammer Construction Chemicals 125

Strategy Driven

APRIL 10, 2019

For example, if you run an agricultural business and your customers are interested in purchasing wetting agent chemicals, private label products allow you to focus your efforts on marketing while ensuring your customers receive top-quality goods from a more specialized manufacturer.

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Productivity Products Brand B2C 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2016

A new set of relationships is being formed within companies around how people working in data, analytics, IT, and operations teams work together. Data and analytics represent a blurring of the traditional lines of demarcation between the scope of IT and the responsibilities of operating divisions. Data and analytics embedded in IT.

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Operations Agility Chemicals Supply Chain 8

The Recovering Engineer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

While I was in the Navy and learning to become an Engineering Officer, I learned about the specific margins that were built into both the submarine and the engineering plant to ensure safe operation. If you have suggestions for me or others reading this post that might help in this process, please leave a comment below.

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Engineering Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Chemicals 169

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

Putting executives in charge of improving cross-functional processes in large organizations is akin to asking them to paddle a boat upstream. Nevertheless, companies that live and die on operational excellence — such as Amazon.com, FedEx, Southwest Airlines, and Wal-Mart — must continually improve their key processes.

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Process Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard Engineering 15

Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

I remember a time when she had to have a major operation to correct a life-threatening condition. The procedure upset her hormonal system, which caused a chemical imbalance in her brain, leading to depression. I knew that personality manifests itself in behavior and that behavior is triggered by mental processes.

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Development Succession Learning-by-Doing Chemicals 102

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Although directors in certain industries are more aware of the threat of disruption, the widespread lack of board-level engagement in innovation processes could be a major blind spot and a potential liability. These firms also had higher-rated processes for innovation. Setting Priorities. Director Recruitment and Skills.

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Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

The culmination was an incident at an insecticide plant in LaPorte, Texas, where, as a result of a basic process safety management failure , an extremely toxic chemical—methyl mercaptan—was released and two workers were overcome. Improved operational performance will result in fewer injuries. At Cummins, Inc.,

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Operations Chemicals CEO Metrics 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. The common idea behind these models is that the company does not have to be the (full) owner of the asset to be its (sole) operator.

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Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

On January 19, 2012, after 131 years of operation, the Eastman Kodak Company filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. 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.

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Health Care Levitt Film Chemicals 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Continuous light interface production , or CLIP, uses chemical reactions to better control the transformation of liquids into solids. Instead of slowly putting down a layer of material and then curing it, CLIP creates a monolithic product in what is essentially a continuous process.

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Chemicals Technology Industry Film 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

The two went way back: Both had been with their German parent company, Almond Chemical, since 1999, when it first established operations in China. Since then Almond China had set up two joint ventures with local partners — the only way foreigners could do chemical business in the country. That was fast, Liu thought.

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Case Study Chemicals Ethics Finance 11

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 23, 2020

They argue that while chemical cleaning products are effective at cleaning such surfaces, it’s a highly labor intensive task to ensure they are cleaned repeatedly, especially in larger facilities. The cleaning process itself places workers at risk of catching the virus. Keeping it clean. Gradual progression. Uncertain terrain.

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Banking Environment Chemicals System 84

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.

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Supply Chain Chemicals Energy System 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Operating margins for firms publicly listed in the US show a substantial and sustained rise. In a new research paper , I tease apart the factors associated with the growth in corporate valuations relative to assets ( Tobin’s Q ) and the growth in operating margins. Profits are up. Corporate valuations are up as well.

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Pharmaceuticals Politics Price Chemicals 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

During the annual sales-planning process, managers determine how to invest resources to capture anticipated demand. Consider the case of a chemicals company. Another might be made up of markets with similar operating cost structures. Align sales coverage with opportunity.

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B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2012

Ground-level intelligence is critical to this part of the process. However, the chemical formulations weren't intended for hand washing and could cause abrasions or burns. There are substantial opportunities to generate real-time intelligence by involving customers in the blueprinting process. For example, at beta620.nytimes.com

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Innovation Chemicals Price Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The US-based company used to be a diversified industrial group, with activities in all types of glass, chemicals, paints, optical materials, and biomedical systems. PPG (originally “Pittsburgh Plate Glass”) is a splendid example of such a transformation. Safeguard the short-term performance of the ongoing business.

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Company Chemicals Short-term How To 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Miniature wells patterned onto the paper contain chemicals that react with samples of blood, urine, saliva, or sweat, which causes the paper to display a reading with a change of color. Diagnostics developed for emerging markets must be rugged, resistant to wear and tear, simple to operate, and temperature-resistant.

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Marketing Chemicals Resistance Guidelines 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

How can you make core business operations more sustainable? Chairman & CEO, Dow Chemical. Regardless of your views on the who, what, when, and why of climate change, the pursuit of sustainable processes up and down supply chains can translate into immediate savings — and opportunities for innovation. Marc Benioff.

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Project Henderson Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

For example, [Andrew] Liveris talked about the focus Dow [Chemical] has on great chemistry and designing new sustainable product lines and being willing to cannibalize existing products. For example, installing a rapidly deployable flood barrier around your campus can help keep your buildings operational during megastorms.

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Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

The leading executive recruitment firm Egon Zender, as part of talent evaluation at the time of Dow Chemical’s merger with Rohm and Haas in the Spring of 2009, described us as the “best CEO university” they had ever seen. Ronaldo Schmitz), one Asian (myself) and one Canadian (Dr. John McArthur).

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Team Diversity CFO TSR 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Assortment-planning processes vary greatly across retailers and product segments but have one thing in common: They rely too much on human judgment and not enough on hard data that might allow a retailer to predict how customers will react to a change in the assortment. We used our estimates to revise the tire retailer's assortments.

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Planning Retail Chemicals Fashion 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Rather than concentrating on the on the top 50 leaders, global companies need to develop hundreds, even thousands, of leaders comfortable operating in a variety of cultures. With flatter organizations and decentralization of power, corporations must develop savvy global leaders capable of operating locally and globally simultaneously.

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Globalization Leadership Development Development Emotional Intelligence 14

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.

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Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 12, 2018

The results of these studies, captured from subjects operating under real or near-real conditions, has put the nature vs nurture debate on leadership to rest. This makes empathy a handy data-gathering tool that’s employed in the decision-making process. Resonant leaders are masters at communicating the bigger picture.

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Organization Self-aware Stress Leadership Styles 247

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The innovation of the Bolognese silk makers was to operate the Lucca machine with a hydraulic wheel, instead of by hand. Firms in the cluster design, manufacture, and assemble packaging machinery for a wide range of products, such as baked goods, confectionery, beverages, tea, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals.

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Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

In the description of Wilderotter, strategy needs to become “a collaborative process where different opinions can be put on the table” and “different options can be reviewed and discarded.” Another way to enhance board engagement is to assign directors specific operational areas to engage on. Engaging the field.

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McKinsey CEO Participative Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Following the Challenger explosion, NASA did take concrete steps to correct flawed organizational processes. For example, it increased both the number and status of safety personnel, and it strengthened safety operating procedures. ” Over time, though, several processes promote gradual forgetting.

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