Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

After he graduated from Northwestern University (Chicago, IL), he developed the idea that companies would become more successful if they called on someone outside of their organization to offer expert, unbiased advice. This idea became a theory, and he developed a practice. Product and Service Innovation. Consumer Products.

Interviews 181

Interviews Culture Company Case Interview 181

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

When it comes to the plastics industry, the chemical recycling company Carbios is an instructive example of this delayed patenting strategy. Disrupting innovations can often lead to an avalanche of complementary technologies, since new production methods enable new products and require new supply chains.

Consulting 97

Consulting Chemicals Industry Strategy 97

Harvard Business

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.

Enterprise 102

Enterprise Data Productivity Software 102

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

IBM was founded in 1911 and has a rich history of ingenuity, deep convictions, premier research and development, and trend setting. They were a management consulting firm whose clients were chemical and petroleum companies. Chemicals and Petroleum. Consumer Products. Revenue: $20B+ (2011). IBM GBS HISTORY. Automotive.

IBM GBS 203

IBM GBS Interviews Consulting Case Interview 203

Harvard Business

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.

Intellectual Property 124

Intellectual Property Research Industry Engineering 124

Harvard Business

MAY 26, 2016

If so, then high profits portend diminished productivity growth. Among non-financial corporations, most of the effect is accounted for by just five industries: pharmaceuticals/chemicals, petroleum refining, transportation equipment/defense, utilities, and communications.

Pharmaceuticals 128

Pharmaceuticals Chemicals Industry Study 128

Harvard Business

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. Some questions have what I like to call a catalytic quality. ” I’ve always been a believer in the principle of celebrating what you want to see more of.

Apparel 108

Apparel Chemicals Journal Agile 108

Harvard Business

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

B2B 72

B2B Chemicals Engineering Data 72

Consulting Matters

JANUARY 23, 2020

As author Caroline Turner states in her book Difference Works: Improving Retention, Productivity and Profitability Through inclusion , “ I lacked the passion to keep it up.” And as agriculture developed enough to create surplus product, the marketplace was born. Non-emotional : Trust facts over intuition or feelings.

Operations 218

Operations Travel Chemicals System 218

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Only 13% of directors in the energy and utilities industry consider innovation to be a major strategic challenge, but the swift growth of renewable energy companies and such developments as the use of drones for monitoring oil and gas production suggest that no industry is impervious to the forces of innovation.

Telecommunications 126

Telecommunications Survey Biotechnology Industry 126

Harvard Business

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 70

Chemicals System Government Productivity 70

Melissa Agnes

DECEMBER 11, 2014

In a crisis the choices become fewer rather than more as the situation develops. It might, for example, be cheaper to simply cease manufacturing a troublesome product than to publicly defend the product or to implement restrictive new regulatory requirements. Cost in a crisis is most often a secondary consideration.

Media 99

Media Conference Chemicals Interviews 99

Harvard Business

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. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

Chemicals 71

Chemicals Industry Metrics Financial 71

Organizational Talent Consulting

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Recently economists have connected what is now labeled Quiet Quitting to a fall in US labor productivity output. BASF is a German multinational chemical company and the largest chemical producer in the world. We make a lot of the products you buy better.". What if you developed a verbund talent strategy?

Talent 52

Talent Chemicals Handbook How To 52

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. He installed heavy-weight market leaders in key growth markets (much as GE has done) to bring management attention to market development, commercial capability, and relationships with government entities.

Apparel 82

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Harvard Business

JUNE 17, 2016

In short, growth comes from the entire company, not from any particular product or service. Its goals are extremely ambitious; it is not just a pioneer in developing new fabrics for active wear, but in developing wearable electronics. Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour.

Company 70

Company Engineering Apparel Energy 70

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Tactics include, for example, labeling claims and how to be clear about what standards we might want to develop, and also about disclosure, when he mentions materiality. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers.

Case Interview 71

Case Interview Chemicals System Interviews 71

Management Consulted

APRIL 2, 2017

Deloitte has received many awards such as Best Employer in the Middle East, Best Consulting Firm, and the Middle East Training & Development Excellence award. Interdisciplinary teams are handpicked from “Competence Centers” to develop the best solutions for their strong client base. bravo Deloitte!).

Oliver Wyman 160

Oliver Wyman Consulting Deloitte Real Estate 160

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 16, 2016

BTS Group specializes in digital technology, leadership development, sales training, and assessments. However, the firm operates in five main practice areas: Assessments, Business Acumen, Leadership Development, Sales Training, and Strategy Execution. Leadership Development. Research & Development. Household Products.

Groups 100

Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

Management Consulted

JANUARY 25, 2016

Consumer Products. Here’s a list of notable AlixPartners alumni (okay, none of them are brand-name or famous but all are impressive) include: Reid MacInnes Cuming – Founder – Platform Development LLC. 3 in the chemicals and pharma sector – brand eins. Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Turnaround Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

It wasn’t until 1939, a decade later, that two chemists, Howard Florey and Ernst Chain , came across Fleming’s paper, immediately understood its significance, and developed a method to produce penicillin in quantity. They began experimenting on mice, and eventually on humans, and saw incredible results. government.

Chemicals 70

Chemicals Government Engineering Journal 70

MishTalk

AUGUST 14, 2014

Delivery of some agricultural products to Iran have also been affected for the same set of reasons. In recent reports, the development of a medicinal black market has come to the forefront of international news, a desperate population resorting to any means to obtain, at times life saving, medications.

Pharmaceuticals 72

Pharmaceuticals Chemicals Report Policies 72

Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2016

Consider the core mission of the modern IT department: Taking in all the technology “mess” (often from several different divisions), developing the necessary competencies, and delivering savings and efficiency to the company. The unit has fewer than 100 people divided among data science/analytics, technology, and social media.

Operations 70

Operations Chemicals Data Agile 70

Organizational Talent Consulting

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

At an individual level, a lack of trust contributes to feelings of: Frustration Rejection Stress Anxiety Depression When we experience feelings of distrust, our body responds immediately at a bio-chemical level within less than a second. Cortisol, catecholamine, testosterone, and norepinephrine levels in our blood increase rapidly.

Leadership 65

Leadership Chemicals Meeting Study 65

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I talked with Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, who together with Ian MacMillan, of the University of Pennsylvania’s business school, developed this classic methodology for planning innovation. It’s a technique that any manager can use when developing and launching a new venture.

Benchmarking 105

Benchmarking Methodologies Company Apparel 105

Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

These conflicting pressures are especially present when the product provided by the asset is not very differentiating (think, for instance, of commodity steel products or container shipping services). 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.

Operations 70

Operations Examples Insurance Insurance 70

Tom Spencer

APRIL 1, 2022

While electric vehicles are already replacing conventional automobiles, no electric aircraft is ready for large scale commercial production that can usher in a sustainable revolution in aerospace. For example, they have developed a new Open Fan Design that will reduce carbon emissions by more than 20%. Chemical Innovations.

Trends 88

Trends Engineering Travel Airlines 88

Comatch

MAY 16, 2022

(Scope 2) but have paid less attention to “indirect emissions resulting from value chain activities” (Scope 3) , that is emissions that occur outside the direct organization, for example in the supply chain, at business partners, or from end-users of their sold products. Companies are increasingly being required to report on Scope 3. .

Chemicals 52

Chemicals Energy Metrics Industry 52

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Nowadays, when a multitude of businesses are confronted with the leap from “dumb” products to creating smart, connected ones , and cities and regions are trying to make the leap from manufacturing to services, relying too heavily on past successes will only lock those clusters in the past.

Education 71

Education Pharmaceuticals Industry Exercises 71

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

Study 70

Study Productivity Efficiency Operations 70

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2019

Let's return to the Manifesto for Agile Software Development , what I call the “Agile Manifesto.” ” Product quality stunk. As an industry, our product quality still stunk. The thinking was if we could get the process right, we could get great products faster, cheaper, and with better quality.

Agile 66

Agile Software Construction Productivity 66

Management Consulted

MAY 10, 2015

A global firm with a very interesting history, they’re known for motivating, developing and training their clients’ staff as well as the for research they carry out on the companies they work with. Damion Sanders – Director, Talent/Executive Development at UnitedHealth Group. Practice Areas. 1. Leadership and talent.

Groups 100

Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Members of this health care company who experienced relational energy with their leaders were more engaged at work, which then led to higher productivity. In one case, two operational leaders at Kelly Services, a workforce solutions firm, created a Business Resource Group to promote leadership development and increase employee engagement.

Energy 70

Energy Study Chemicals Research 70

Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2016

Chipotle aimed to differentiate itself from other quick-serve restaurants on the basis of using local ingredients and local sourcing of its products. Companies like Tyson have decades of experience in testing and making sure their products are safe. The second answer relates to tracking particular food products from the source.

Case Study 70

Case Study Case Studies Operations Productivity 70

Harvard Business

JANUARY 19, 2018

The existing management team had not addressed a range of issues, including required changes to store sizes, the product range, and which geographies the company focused on. Consider Staples, the office-supplies retailer, which had tumbled from being the market leader to being a third of the new leader’s size by 1992.

Strategy& 71

Strategy& Strategy Strategy Chemicals 71

Harvard Business

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. In fact, Kodak invested billions to develop a range of digital cameras. ” A good line, but not completely accurate.

Film 70

Film Balance Sheet Chemicals Engineering 70

Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2018

She’d hoped to escape from work for the morning, but as the founder and CEO of 2 Proud Pups, a maker of all-natural dog care products, she didn’t have much free time. Existing products had touted their cleaning power, but their ingredient lists were long and full of nasty-sounding chemicals that irritated the dogs’ skin.

Case Study 76

Case Study Case Studies Study Productivity 76