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How to Solve Your Talent Challenge (Creatively)

Organizational Talent Consulting

Identifying worthwhile ideas requires the ability and will to see new patterns in the same data everyone else is seeing. BASF is a German multinational chemical company and the largest chemical producer in the world. At BASF, chemical production sites are highly interlinked product flows resulting in efficient uses of resources.

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"Process Mining"? Sounds Like a Waste of Time.

Markovitz Consulting

What kind of current state analysis only has interviews with no observational data? For example, the global chemical company Chermours used process mining to analyze their order-to-cash process: It took the process mining effort four months to uncover how the actual process was performing (not just what the ERP documentation stated).

Software 124
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Figuring Out How IT, Analytics, and Operations Should Work Together

Harvard Business

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.

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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

These include offsetting greenhouse gas production by purchasing carbon credits, investing in more efficient gas turbine engines, using sustainable aviation fuel, and manufacturing with novel materials and 3D printing methods. Companies such as GE Aviation and Safran are working on improving engine efficiency in order to reduce emissions.

Trends 88
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The Future Economy Project: Q&A with Marne Levine

Harvard Business

The company focuses on building environmentally friendly work sites and data centers and improving access to clean energy for all. When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Before 2010, most of the energy powering these data centers was coming from coal.

Energy 28
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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business

Research by my co-authors and myself has found that firms improving their performance on industry-specific, material ESG issues outperform their competitors , and firms disclosing more information on industry-specific material ESG issues exhibit more informative stock prices and as a result more efficient pricing of risks and opportunities.

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A.T. Kearney Interview & Culture

Management Consulted

Now known to be THE best sourcing, procurement and operations consulting firm in the world, A.T. The firm was temporarily acquired by Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in 1995 but was bought back by partners in 2006, just in time for the company’s 80th anniversary. Operations. KEARNEY INTERVIEW AND CULTURE. remains in Chicago.