The Next Wave of Innovation in the Chemicals Industry
Strategy+Business
JUNE 4, 2017
The world is potentially on the brink of an age of new powerful materials, fueled by innovation in the chemicals industry.
What follows after the Eureka Moment: Consulting for Innovation Start-ups
Tom Spencer
SEPTEMBER 24, 2021
Innovation start-ups are a practical starting point for familiarising yourself with the industry, since they rarely have the budgets for hiring major strategy firms, and therefore often welcome volunteer consultants. Start-up in the Plastics Industry. Turning Innovation into a Market Reality.
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How to Solve Your Talent Challenge (Creatively)
Organizational Talent Consulting
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Recently economists have connected what is now labeled Quiet Quitting to a fall in US labor productivity output. It is helpful to test assumptions, adopt a different point of view, challenge habits, and search for ideas outside your industry or function. We make a lot of the products you buy better.". References. Broderson, M.,
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The Impact of Carbon Taxation on Supply Chains in China
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. degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels.”
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Empire State Manufacturing: New Orders Negative 4th Time in 5 Months; Slight Bounce in Industrial Production
MishTalk
JULY 15, 2015
Slight Bounce in Industrial Production Following unexpected negative numbers in April and May, an Industrial Production bounce in June came pretty much in line with Economist's Expectations. percent rise in June industrial production looks respectable but still overstates strength. percent and minus 0.5
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Avoiding food waste confusion
Seth Godin Blog
APRIL 20, 2023
But the food production, delivery and consumption chain is filled with waste. The shift in our industrial systems to climate resilience is a huge opportunity. Seven billion people multiplies into a big number… Creating the food we eat has significant climate impact. Clean your plate ? The biggest impact happens on farms.
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The Grocery Industry Confronts a New Problem: Only 10% of Americans Love Cooking
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 22, 2017
If that’s the kind of shift coming to the food industry, change leaders and corporate strategists will have their hands full. To prevent that, the industry needs to stop putting Band-Aids on a major bleed-out, and instead make a decision to amputate through ruthless portfolio strategy. Reducing spoilage could reduce food waste.
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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities
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. Figure 2: Aviation Industry CO 2 Emissions. Billion industry by 2027. Aviation Industry Trends & Uncertainties.
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How Organic Wine Finally Caught On
Harvard Business
APRIL 3, 2018
Meanwhile, plenty of other organic products, including vegetables, milk, and tea, have become widely consumed, at least by affluent, health-conscious city dwellers. First, the conventional wine industry saw it as a threat. The product was perceived as more prone to spoilage since it typically lacked added sulfites.
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Customer Signals for Adapting Experiences
1 to 1
MAY 9, 2013
A chemical manufacturer with a solid customer listening program noticed an uptick in complaints about pricing. It learned that some distributors were selling chemicals for applications in markets better served by off-the-shelf, commodity products. It conducted some root cause analysis, talking to those customers.
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44 Reinvigorate Your Career by Taking the Right Kind of Risk
Harvard Business
APRIL 12, 2018
Innovate a product or service from within your position. In 1979 interest rates skyrocketed, rising to over 20%, causing real pain in the banking industry. When people innovate in their career paths, disruptive energy is generated within teams, firms, and industries. Willing, in fact, to challenge her.
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AlixPartners Interviews and Culture
Management Consulted
JANUARY 25, 2016
As such, AlixPArtners is known for being packed full of industry and consulting experts and the firm’s managing directors have been called upon by several leading publications such as Bloomberg, WSJ, the Financial Times, CNBC, and Fox Business. Industries. Consumer Products. The industry is tough. Effectiveness.
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100 Top 10 Consulting Firms in the Middle East
Management Consulted
APRIL 2, 2017
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.
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How Advanced Analytics Is Changing B2B Selling
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. For a deep dive into the elements, see our related HBR article “ The B2B Elements of Value ”). Insight Center.
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A Survey of 1,700 Companies Reveals Common B2B Pricing Mistakes
Harvard Business
JUNE 7, 2018
Consider the case of a major industrial goods manufacturer that was struggling with low profit margins, relative both to competitors and to its own historical performance. Top performers are more likely to: employ truly tailored pricing at the individual customer and product level. Glasshouse Images/Getty Images.
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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 7, 2017
The investment industry is changing. 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. Hiroshi Watanabe/Getty Images. This is not just case-by-case evidence.
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28 Accenture Careers
CaseInterview.com
JULY 18, 2019
The Health and Public Service operating group focuses on those industries. The Products Operating Group concentrates on Air Freight & Travel Service, Automotive, Consumer Goods & Services, Industrial Equipment, Infrastructure & Transportation Services, Life Sciences, and Retail.
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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
Although directors in certain industries are more aware of the threat of disruption, the widespread lack of board-level engagement in innovation processes could be a major blind spot and a potential liability. Instead, boards typically looked for expertise in their firms’ industry (51%), strategy (34%), and financials (30%).
There’s No Good Alternative to Investing in R&D
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. For one thing, most industries just don’t have many new startups, period.
2016 ECS Value Creators Report: Building Endurance
BCG
OCTOBER 26, 2016
lthough the engineering, construction, and services (ECS) industry continues to lag substantially behind the broader market, a doom-and-gloom outlook is by no means warranted. Moreover, ECS companies that serve the energy industry continued to suffer the ripple effect of low oil prices as their clients pulled back from growth initiatives.
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Lobbyists Are Behind the Rise in Corporate Profits
Harvard Business
MAY 26, 2016
If so, then high profits portend diminished productivity growth. I also consider investments in lobbying, political campaign spending, and regulation; and I look for links between rising profits and industry concentration and stock volatility. These industries comprise, in effect, a “rent seeking sector.”
Bologna Shows How a Business Cluster Can Stay Vibrant for Centuries
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 26, 2017
Today when we talk about business “ clusters ,” we’re usually talking about the technology industry in Silicon Valley, the financial sector in London or New York, or automakers in southern Germany. But when Industrial Revolution did arrive, it shook the Bolognese silk industry. Matteo Fagiolino/Getty Images.
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We Need to Ask How We Can Make Economic Growth More Inclusive
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. ” A top prizewinner for 2016 was a company not too far from MIT geographically — but in an industry that seems 100 years distant. Industrial Revolution.”
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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights
Management Consulted
AUGUST 28, 2013
You created not just a firm, but an industry we are all now proud of. Surely it was the largest when it was the only one, but they kept the lead after creating an idea so great that competitors formed to add unique flavor to the industry. Product and Service Innovation. Industries served: Aerospace & Defense.
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Why Boards Aren’t Dealing with Cyberthreats
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 22, 2017
The industry breakdowns were determined using eight major sectors (similar to those in the Global Industry Classification Standard system): Consumer Discretionary (e.g., food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).
Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments
Harvard Business
APRIL 6, 2016
In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. 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).
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Growth Needs to Come from the Entire Company
Harvard Business
JUNE 17, 2016
In short, growth comes from the entire company, not from any particular product or service. In everything it does, the company pays as much attention to its growth engine — its ability to manage innovation and launch consistently valuable products — as in any particular garment or device it sells.
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Hay Group Interviews and Culture
Management Consulted
MAY 10, 2015
Below them is a team of five global managing directors, each owning a different sector: mature markets, fast-growing markets, productized services, people-delivered services, and expertise & knowledge management. Industries . Management Consulting and the Consulting Industry 101. Practice Areas. 1. Leadership and talent.
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Bots Won’t Just Help Us Buy Stuff. They’ll Help Us Become Better Versions of Ourselves
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.
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31 Why Multinationals Are Doubling Down on Russia
Harvard Business
APRIL 4, 2016
Russia’s industrialization also means that the market offers substantial opportunities in diverse B2B sectors such as mining, oil and gas, metallurgy, chemicals, light industry, and consumer durables. It’s time companies ask themselves: Who can actually afford our products now?
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28 FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture
Management Consulted
FEBRUARY 15, 2015
Compared to its peers, FTI Consulting is a youngster in the consulting industry. Luczak pioneered solutions at the intersection of law, communications and technology that affected not only the cases he was involved in, but the industry itself. Dispute, litigation and investigations services for construction industry. Industries.
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World's First Robot-Run Lettuce Farm to Produce 30,000 Heads Daily; Tipping Point for Workerless Agriculture
MishTalk
JANUARY 28, 2016
The Japanese lettuce production company Spread believes the farmers of the future will be robots. In addition to increasing production and reducing waste, indoor vertical farming also eliminates runoff from pesticides and herbicides — chemicals used in traditional outdoor farming that can be harmful to the environment.
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28 A.T. Kearney Interview & Culture
Management Consulted
JANUARY 18, 2015
Kearney becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of EDS in September, nearly doubling in size and vastly expanding its industry expertise and information technology capabilities. Each company faces substantial challenges in the every evolving face of marketing due to consumer trends and industry dynamics. Industries. Consumer Products.
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China's Bill for Cleaning Air Pollution Mounts; State TV Promotes Benefits of Smog
MishTalk
JANUARY 1, 2014
The CAS study analysed air samples in the capital on a seasonal basis, and found that pollutants generated from industrial production and coal-burning the source of Beijing''s PM2.5 percent of the investment, or 640 billion yuan should go on cleaning up industry, followed by 490 billion yuan (28.2 pollutants.
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Don’t Be Tyrannized by Old Metrics
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. For example, same-store sales or sales per square foot measure success in the retail industry, and various volume measures do it in commodity industries. Consider the automotive industry. For years, U.S. Who takes the hit?
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Readers Question Free Trade; Does Nonreciprocal Free Trade Cost Jobs? Paul Krugman "Was" Right!
MishTalk
APRIL 9, 2015
Seen and Unseen For starters, employment in manufacturing and some service industries is down everywhere due to hardware and software robotics. Productivity and Free Trade The Library of Economics and Free Trade has an excellent article on the subject. The answer, of course, is that Chinese productivity was growing at enormous rates.
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28 The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 21, 2016
Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate. These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation.
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Here’s Why Strategy Chiefs Succeed or Fail
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. He has accumulated a unique mix of deep knowledge of the organization, the industry, and how to work with Stefano Pessina, the company’s executive chairman.
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Figuring Out How IT, Analytics, and Operations Should Work Together
Harvard Business
AUGUST 3, 2016
A global consumer durable goods manufacturer’s industry is seeing business-model transformation, disruption, and a pronounced technological shift in its relationship with its customers. The data and analytics function is completely independent from corporate IT. The stand-alone data and analytics service function.
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Reshoring Myth Explodes: Ofshoring Opaces Onshoring Every Year Since 2004 Except 2011
MishTalk
DECEMBER 21, 2015
Industries vulnerable to rising labor costs in China have been successfully relocating to other Asian countries, rather than returning to the United States. manufacturing renaissance,” marked by the “reshoring” of production and the growing competitiveness challenges of many foreign nations vis-à-vis the United States.
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Reshoring Myth Explodes: Offshoring Outpaces Onshoring Every Year Since 2004 Except 2011
MishTalk
DECEMBER 21, 2015
Industries vulnerable to rising labor costs in China have been successfully relocating to other Asian countries, rather than returning to the United States. manufacturing renaissance,” marked by the “reshoring” of production and the growing competitiveness challenges of many foreign nations vis-à-vis the United States.
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28 50 Years Ago an Economist Worried About Unchecked Corporate Power. Here’s What His Theory Got Wrong
Harvard Business
AUGUST 22, 2017
This summer marks 50 years since the publication of John Kenneth Galbraith’s The New Industrial State and its quick rise to the top of the New York Times Best Seller list. You actually don’t have to read The New Industrial State to understand its story. Thus the very foundation of The New Industrial State did not hold.
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28 Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology
Harvard Business
JULY 15, 2016
While Kodak stagnated and ultimately stumbled, Fuji aggressively explored new opportunities, creating products adjacent to its film business, such as magnetic tape optics and videotape, and branching into copiers and office automation, notably through a joint venture with Xerox. The right lessons from Kodak are subtle.
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A Refresher on Discovery-Driven Planning
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 13, 2017
Discovery-driven planning offers a lower-risk way to move a product forward in the face of “what is unknown, uncertain, and not yet obvious to the competition” so that firms can “learn as much as possible as cheaply as possible” while pursuing new ventures. ” Step 3: Define operational requirements.
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