ReImagine Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

I started out as an information technology professional. I worked at a chemical plant in the early Eighties. I liked helping them get past that so they could feel confident and productive. About 7 years into my IT career I realized I didn’t love the technology enough to excel over the long haul.

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Much of what I practice in both leadership and technology roles, I first learned early in my career. After college, I joined the Career Development Program at Air Products & Chemicals. In fact, Air Products was my first experience with servant leadership principles. Experience & Culture.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 24, 2023

Japan, known for its technological advancements and economic prowess, is facing a significant challenge – a labor shortage. For example, Sumitomo Chemical, a prominent Japanese company, has gradually raised its retirement age from 60 to 65 with full pay. What can Japan do to solve its labor crisis?

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Also known as information technology managers, such professionals devise, coordinate, implement, and analyze computer-related projects. A bachelor’s degree or a more specialised degree in computers or informational technology is required. For example, chemical engineers earn a median annual salary of $96,616.

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Human Resources Chemicals Software Engineering 52

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

His academic lab and companies he has started develop and deploy neuroscience technologies to solve real problems faced by real people. How Oxitocin affects productivity. All this in a quest to understand the neuroscience of human connection, human happiness, and effective teamwork. Listen in iTunes ] [ Listen on Stitcher ].

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 2, 2010

For others, adults, Buddy was a “chemically imbalanced” adult man who thinks and dresses like an elf running around through the streets of New York City. In the movie, Buddy failed dismally to keep up with the production of Etch-a-Sketch toys against the skill and speed of the other elves in the workshop. Are they telling others?

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Brand Press Release Discount Customer Loyalty 215

Steve Farber

AUGUST 7, 2017

Neurohacking, Schmachtenberger explains, is the “use of any technology to affect the brain, nervous system, and body in a way that affects cognitive capacity or psyche.” Physical activity frees the brain from stress because it creates favorable chemical reactions and because it restores a sense of power and control to the mind.

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Constraint Entrepreneur Delegation Chemicals 79

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2012

For the past few decades, emerging technologies such as biotechnology, microelectronics, information technology and communications technologies have become central to the socioeconomic development of nations. These technologies improve productivity and facilitate better living standards when they penetrate into societies.

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Information Technology Technology Information Trends 15

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.” billion in sales) provides huge economies of scale throughout the operation, especially in production, fixed overheads, distribution and marketing. “Better Seed for a Brighter Future. How’s that for spin?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. So, another explanation is that Kodak invented the technology but didn’t invest in it. Kodak created a digital camera, invested in the technology, and even understood that photos would be shared online. Why did this happen?

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 29, 2011

We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.” billion in sales) provides huge economies of scale throughout the operation, especially in production, fixed overheads, distribution and marketing. “Better Seed for a Brighter Future. How’s that for spin?

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Strategy CEO Company Competitive Advantage 131

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We create the seeds, the traits, and crop protection chemicals that help farmers produce more food using fewer resources.” billion in sales) provides huge economies of scale throughout the operation, especially in production, fixed overheads, distribution and marketing. “Better Seed for a Brighter Future. How’s that for spin?

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Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 74

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?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 30, 2021

Packaging and transporting the product is as important as manufacturing it. They can be remodelled many times by heating without causing any chemical change. Its surface is treated with manual labour or chemicals for the desired shape. Packaging the product is as important as the product itself.

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Industry Chemicals Objective Brand 87

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Often dismissed in the popular mindset as a tool for home-based “makers” of toys and trinkets, the technology is gaining momentum in large-scale industry. Impressive next-generation technologies are overcoming the last generation’s drawbacks while adding new capabilities.

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Chemicals Technology Industry Film 8

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. “rust-belt” states, which were some of the most productive areas during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We also looked at the technology areas in which immigrant inventors were active.

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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.

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Positioning Chemicals Ryan Discount 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. In the U.S.,

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Chemicals Automotive Supply Chain Offshoring 8

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. This FDA-approved technology creates multiple benefits.

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Industry Supply Chain Long-term Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Of these 5 articles, some were self-explanatory: " Nation spurs development of new, green technologies ". " Two articles didn't scream sustainability until you read them: " Chemical company paints rosy picture for the future ," which opens with the question, "How can a chemical company earn more money through eco-friendly products?"

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g.,

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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. R&D Seldom Walks Out the Door. In fact, this is unlikely.

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Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

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?

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Chemicals Mass Marketing System Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

Siri is super, Alexa is awesome, and Cortana’s quite clever, but better bots and digital assistants aren’t going to determine personal productivity’s data-driven future. Tomorrow’s most effective executives will merge and marry workplace data and analytics to digitally design more-productive versions of themselves.

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KPI Directory Human Capital Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

While there’s less buzz around business-to-business markets, these innovations are changing the game in B2B as well, even in old-line industries selling what might be considered commodity products. Any product that requires some expertise to use is a candidate for analytics innovation. Insight Center. Data-Driven Marketing.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

Consider the case of an innovation initiative run by a company we’ll call WashCorp (not its real name), a global producer of surfactants used by companies like P&G and Clorox in the production of detergents. This was the experience of the chemical company BASF and Daimler Buses.

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B2B Innovation Company Workshop 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. ” In the midst of a new, twenty-first-century technological revolution, no workers are being made redundant by machines.

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Drucker Apparel Chemicals Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The article shows how the Dutch firm AkzoNobel is growing in China, particularly through products that help customers reduce environmental footprint in the shipping and building sectors. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. In the U.S.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products.

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Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 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.

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Innovation First-mover Advantage Chemicals Agility 15

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 B2B customer collaboration, however, the customer tends to be driven by specific business goals rather than passion for your brand or product category.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Startups usually launch their products first in wealthy countries. 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. until it has a better technological and market foothold.

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Marketing Chemicals Resistance Guidelines 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths. Also, consider the need for new products and services in a country full of concentrated industries. In the guitar business , too. How does this consolidation impact entrepreneurs?

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Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

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. The board of a large chemical company we also worked with took a very different approach. Innovation Product development'

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Business Model Innovation Company Chemicals 8

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. after chemicals). This is the transformational and dramatic effect of a superior technology entering an industry. This was no surprise to the top five U.S.-based Goodrich, and General Tire). incumbents.

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Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 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. Model 3: Joint venture of similar assets.

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Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

New products are, of course, the province of R&D teams or research partners. The directors of Procter & Gamble, for instance, have established an Innovation and Technology committee; the board of specialty-chemical maker Clariant has done the same; and Pfizer has created a Science and Technology committee.

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