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Where should sustainability fit within the realm of innovation and new product development priorities? Truthfully, it should be near the top. But sustainability encompasses so many facets, and knowing where to start can be quite confusing. In a recent episode of the Innovation+Talks podcast,... Read More

Chemical companies once had distinct market segments with quite predictable volumes and sales expectations, but this has drastically changed because customer behavior has evolved. The automotive industry, the distribution and packaging sector, and the construction industry are under intense... Read More

McKinseypublished a fascinating report on the future of manufacturing CPG companies. Read More

The chemical industry is growing at a rapid rate, but market expansion doesn’t necessarily mean new opportunities for all parties. Read More

Many people in our marketplace associate the word “governance” with bureaucracy, administrative overhead and sluggishness. However, this couldn’t be less true. This article argues that the contrary is the case: without a good governance system innovation is unpredictable, slow, not agile and... Read More

Stage-Gate® is a gated process that has become the backbone of innovation for many companies. Dr. Bob Cooper has continued to introduce new generations of Stage-Gate over the years to reflect updated best practices like agile iterative feedback loops, describing these new generations in each new... Read More

Welcome Back It is refreshing to be engaged in business meetings again. Real, live meetings, with people physically in those meetings. There is a vibrancy of people being in the same room that has been missing from our lives for more than a year. Read More

With all the challenges that 2020 has brought us, not just as individuals, but for society, the focus has been definitively drawn to organizations' digital agility. The ability to adapt to the ever-changing work and consumer landscape is critical for businesses to be able to ‘weather the storm' and... Read More

In part one of this two-part series on corporate memory, we defined what corporate memory is, why it is important and provided some examples of sources for it. Let's discuss for a moment a rather worrisome aspect of corporate memory: memory loss. Read More