Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. Metrics tried and proven over years become a guide to what’s important, driving resource allocation.

Metrics 28

Metrics Retail Sales Automotive 28

Comatch

MAY 16, 2022

Since 2005, many EU manufacturers have been paying for their carbon emissions via certificates under the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), where emission rights are currently about 60 EUR per metric ton, while imports from countries with less strict climate regulations may face lower or no such cost for carbon emissions.

Chemicals 52

Chemicals Energy Metrics Industry 52

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

All investment practices will consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics because some of those metrics are financially material, meaning decision-useful pieces of information. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

Chemicals 28

Chemicals Industry Metrics Financial 28

LSA Global

OCTOBER 27, 2019

The Center also found that production of the chemical oxytocin – sometimes known as the “cuddle hormone” or the “love hormone” – is stimulated in the brain when you have a sense of a higher purpose and trust. The Neuroscience of Trust. Empower Employees.

Culture 28

Culture How To Chemicals Report 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

This twinned production thermostat could be instrumented to help predict the most cost-effective ways to heat critical chemicals in a production process. These metrics should inform ongoing feedback as well as training for individuals, teams, and their algorithms. But why stop with industrial assets?

Enterprise 31

Enterprise Data Productivity Software 31

Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

The culmination was an incident at an insecticide plant in LaPorte, Texas, where, as a result of a basic process safety management failure , an extremely toxic chemical—methyl mercaptan—was released and two workers were overcome. Needed repairs and upgrades were delayed, worker training postponed, and risk assessments overlooked.

Operations 60

Operations Chemicals Metrics System 60

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

In one instance leaders rounding in our chemical dependency treatment center learned that the plastic-covered pillows so common in hospitals were a major source of patient dissatisfaction for an unexpected reason: when some patients experience withdrawal, profuse sweating on a plastic pillow can be very unpleasant.

System 28

System Healthcare Financial Construction 28