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Why the Middle East’s Petrochemical Industry Needs to Reinvent Itself

BCG

Article Monday, November 07, 2016 Multiple market disruptions—including the shale gas renaissance in the United States, plummeting oil prices worldwide, and a capacity expansion drive in China and Iran—are reshaping the Middle East’s petrochemical industry. Slowing growth rates in the global chemicals industry will only worsen the problem.

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Why the Middle East’s Petrochemical Industry Needs to Reinvent Itself

BCG

Article Monday, November 07, 2016 Multiple market disruptions—including the shale gas renaissance in the United States, plummeting oil prices worldwide, and a capacity expansion drive in China and Iran—are reshaping the Middle East’s petrochemical industry. Slowing growth rates in the global chemicals industry will only worsen the problem.

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How to Solve Your Talent Challenge (Creatively)

Organizational Talent Consulting

It is helpful to test assumptions, adopt a different point of view, challenge habits, and search for ideas outside your industry or function. BASF is a German multinational chemical company and the largest chemical producer in the world. industry associations discuss relevant issues and set standards for best practices.

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The Impact of Carbon Taxation on Supply Chains in China

Comatch

From an operational and supply chain perspective, many companies have focused on tracking their operations and assets (Scope 1) and their own purchased energy electricity, heating, cooling, etc. degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels.” While the industry average price for steel shall see a 16.9%

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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. Data and analytics embedded in IT.

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

Markovitz Consulting

You’re missing the boat on “process mining,” the latest improvement breakthrough that will catapult your firm to the top of your industry. Place responsibility for improvement in the hands of a few people who have the special skills and training to operate the software, and let them fix the problems. Yup, that’s right.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms in the Middle East

Management Consulted

Bain’s major industries of importance in the Middle East include Airlines & Transportation, Media, Mining, Oil & Gas, Retail, Private Equity, Social & Public Sector, Technology, Telecommunications, Utilities and Alternative energy (the oil will run out one day!). in revenue (wow!). Bain & Company. for example.