Jun 22, 2020 | B2B, Chemicals, COVID-19
To succeed in tough markets, you need to be adaptive and responsive. What’s important in “normal” conditions – to you and your customers – is likely to be different today. Successful B2B companies win in tough markets by challenging their...
Apr 24, 2020 | B2B, Business Processes, Business Resilience, Chemicals, COVID-19
As “stay at home” orders are lifted and businesses plan the return to the workplace, reopening non-essential businesses, seeing a return to onsite construction or service, and seek a return to “normal”. There are still many questions and uncertainties about how it...
Apr 21, 2020 | B2B, Business Resilience, Chemicals, COVID-19, Customers
In anticipation of “stay at home” orders being lifted, businesses and leaders are building plans to return to the workplace and reopen “non-essential” businesses, seeking a return to onsite construction or service, and seeking a return to “normal”. There...
Apr 20, 2020 | Business Resilience, Chemicals, COVID-19, Leadership
I’ve received some great responses to my “Here We Are, What’s Next” post on Planning for Return and going to dive a little deeper into areas of consideration. We are starting to see states loosening up stay-at-home guidelines with an effort to boost business and the...
Apr 17, 2020 | B2B, Business Resilience, Chemicals, COVID-19, Leadership
Here we are, almost 3 months since COVID-19 appeared with significance in China and began first slowing then shutting down business there, and impacting global businesses and global supply chains. It’s been 1 month since the US and Western Europe have seen similar...
Mar 26, 2020 | B2B, Chemicals, COVID-19
Tough times and tough markets are here. Economic outlooks to start 2020 showed chemical markets with decent fundamentals: slow growth but no recession and a stronger 2nd half. None of those outlooks predicted COVID-19 and the impact it would have. Here we are in the...