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Creating Strategic Alignment with Your Team
Strategies are relatively Wondering why you're not seeing results from your strategy? A recent study suggests that your employees don't understand your strategy as well as executives think they do.A recent study published in Harvard Business Review, showed a gap of...
3 Growth Imperatives for Chemical Companies
Who isn't looking for growth? It's easy to target and hard to achieve. In fact, the average company grew just 2.8% in 10 years preceding the COVID-bubble and the top organic growers grew 6%. (Per the data, it takes an acquisition to really boost growth into double...
Following the Storm
Our founder, Victoria Meyer, was recently interviewed by Robert Sawchuk of Petrochemical Strategies on his YouTube channel regarding responses that chemical companies can take following Winter Storm Uri. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLPm50qsXjQ
4 Strategic Actions Following the USGC Winter Storm Crisis
Or Pipes, Power and Plants The recent deep-freeze across the US Gulf Coast, spawned by Winter Storm Uri, wreaked havoc on individuals, infrastructure and the energy and chemical industry. While individuals and businesses prepared for the winter storm, wrapping pipes,...
Find your Customer’s WHY to help you Win
“I met all the requirements; I don’t understand why I didn’t win the bid.” “We’re just not competitive.” “They always do business with supplier X.” Does this sound familiar? When I talk to chemical leaders and their sales and marketing teams, I hear this...
Chemical Industry Trends for 2021
What can chemical companies expect in 2021? We’re all hoping that 2021 will bring a return to “normalcy” in our day-to-day work and personal lives, growth in chemical markets, and business and personal prosperity. After all, we can all agree, 2020 was not what anyone...
Engage Customers Early to Increase Success
Bring customers into your design process to derisk your business strategy One of my dad’s favorite phrases was: “When you assume, you make an ass out of u and me.” That phrase was typically uttered when my siblings or I had made an unwise decision. As teenagers, we...
Strategic Approaches to Environmental Sustainability
While it's been discussed, deliberated and pursued to some degree for years, sustainability has become a critical topic for companies across the chemical value chain and elsewhere. For publicly-held companies especially, having an ESG (environmental, sustainability...
The Power of the 90-Day Plan
Your annual business plan is doomed. In 2020, its easy to blame COVID-19 for missed targets and goals. The reality is that this happens every year. Every time you and your business set a 12-month plan, it’s a real struggle to keep your team and organization focused on...