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New Regulations Place Sustainability and ESG at the Center of National and Global Business Competitiveness

Brimstone Consulting

Your strategy needs to consider current and future sustainability and ESG rules and regulations and market realities. Compliance with rules and regulations at the local, state, federal, and international levels has already begun and will continue to impact corporate strategy. If not, should it?

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What follows after the Eureka Moment: Consulting for Innovation Start-ups

Tom Spencer

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. Turning Innovation into a Market Reality. Copycats and Patenting Strategy. Only a meagre 8.7%

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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. Like me, you may have first learned about this company from their marketing campaign: "We don't make a lot of the products you buy. For too long, organizations have approached talent management with ad-hoc talent strategies.

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The Impact of Carbon Taxation on Supply Chains in China

Comatch

Many companies in European markets that have producers or suppliers in China currently do not assess carbon footprint in their supply chains. The most significant impact of introducing a carbon border tax will be on the cost of products with high-carbon inputs, such as steel, aluminum, cement, chemicals, and electricity-intensive processes.

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Reflections on "A Moral Obscenity": How Long Ago Was a War Against Syria Decided?

MishTalk

Secretary of State John Kerry says the use of chemical weapons in Syria is " a moral obscenity ". Mr Kerry said on Monday President Bashar al-Assad’s forces’ responsibility for the use of chemical weapons in an attack which left hundreds dead last week was “undeniable”, cementing a sharp about-turn in Washington’s response to the issue.

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Here’s Why Strategy Chiefs Succeed or Fail

Harvard Business

Why is that some companies have great heads of strategy who make an outstanding contribution to their companies while others don’t? To answer this question, we evaluated a sample of 55 different heads of strategy and looked more closely at 11 who were particularly successful and 10 who were at the other end of the spectrum.

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Customer Signals for Adapting Experiences

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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.