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How to Solve Your Talent Challenge (Creatively)

Organizational Talent Consulting

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. BASF reports that the results are higher product yields and resource conservation.

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Why This Health System Offers Refunds to Dissatisfied Patients

Harvard Business

Karen’s communication, and others like it, represent a success for us: We had built a system to assure that we encouraged criticism – in essence inviting patients to speak their minds – so that we could learn and improve. Correct care is not some absolute invariable value.

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How the Internet of Things Can Prepare Cities for Natural Disasters

Harvard Business

Using the most current technology could help them more efficiently and safely address these costly disasters. Ineffective communication channels, overburdened response systems, satellite disruptions, and internet blackouts further impede people from getting the help they need.

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Saving the Planet from Ecological Disaster Is a $12 Trillion Opportunity

Harvard Business

But a recent report concludes that meeting the goals in just four out of 60 sectors (food and agriculture, cities, energy and materials, and health and wellbeing) could indeed open up market opportunities worth up to $12 trillion a year in less than 15 years. How about by meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals?

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9 Sustainable Business Stories That Shaped 2016

Harvard Business

With the support of chemical companies , more than 170 countries also agreed to phase out HFCs , the high global-warming-potential chemicals used in air-conditioners and refrigerators everywhere. President Obama, with his counterparts in Canada and Mexico, agreed to some aggressive regional targets on renewable energy and efficiency.

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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 4: What Does “Agile” Mean?

Johanna Rothman

The first Chaos report was published in 1994.). It didn't matter what kind of a product: a control system for a factory line, an inspection system for car parts, analytical chemical instrumentation. I already knew about coupling (bad) and cohesion (good). As an industry, our product quality still stunk.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

McKinsey reports that the value at stake from sustainability concerns can be as a high as 70% of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. In the largest study on climate change data and corporations, 8,000 supplier companies (that sell to 75 multinationals) reported on their level of climate risk.

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