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When R&D and innovation go beyond labs: Marketing innovations internally
- 24 May 2012 03:59
- by Loic Cesbron Lavau
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Recently the economist Michael Mandel wrote on his blog ‘We have only two ways out of our current global economic mess: innovation and inflation. And as the saying goes, we should hope for the best (more innovation) and prepare for the worst (higher inflation).’ (Source: Michael Mandel, Innovation and growth, dated 26th Oct 2011. http://innovationa...
Green chemicals feedstock: Thoughts about supply risks and volatility - Part 2
- 24 May 2012 03:33
- by Loic Cesbron Lavau
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High feedstock price is the new norm ‘Back in 2005, when oil price peaked at US$60/bbl, the community started admitting that a US$100/bbl price was a realistic work hypothesis. 6 years have passed since then, we have pushed the ceiling several times.’ This is exactly what we can expect for agricultural products too. Firstly, prices are related to...
Green chemicals feedstock: Thoughts about supply risks and volatility - Part 1
- 24 May 2012 03:26
- by Loic Cesbron Lavau
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The green chemistry industry is developing fast because of a set of 3 major trends: - Oil progressive scarcity - Durable high (if not skyrocketing) oil price - Continued population & demand growth (in particular middle class) Needless to say, the industry is growing in a context of deteriorating environment, which also has an impact upon ‘green...
Food for Thoughts
- 24 May 2012 03:03
- by Loic Cesbron Lavau
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About Food for Thoughts The good thing with consulting is that you can work on very diverse topics and areas; you accumulate a lot of transversal and specific knowledge, you meet and exchange thoughts & ideas with many people but these inputs are not necessarily re-usable immediately in the projects we all work on. It certainly doesn’t mean that ...
What's the best email subject line you've ever seen?
- 23 May 2012 16:25
- by Austin Pullmann
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Or rather, what is an example of a subject line you simply could not resist opening? I can think of a few – “How you can do what xx did”, or “Does this version work for you?”. Sometimes no subject line is the most effective of all. The airlines could stand to improve at this. I’m subscribed to perhaps every domestic airline’s email list, and the e...
2012 Global R&D/Innovation and Product Development Priorities Survey: Pursuing Emerging Innovation
- 23 May 2012 10:17
- by Holly Lyke Ho Gland
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Frost & Sullivan’s Growth Team Membership™ (GTM) recently completed its 2012 survey of R&D/innovation and product development executives globally. The executives were asked to identify their most pressing challenges for 2012. GTM will focus its best practices research to address the prominent issues identified in the survey. This year’s survey ind...
2012 Americas R&D/Innovation and Product Development Priorities Survey: From Portfolio Management to Open Innovation
- 22 May 2012 13:35
- by Holly Lyke Ho Gland
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Frost & Sullivan’s Growth Team Membership™ (GTM) recently completed its 2012 survey of R&D/Innovation and product development executives in North and South America. The executives were asked to identify their most pressing challenges for 2012. GTM will focus its best practices research to address the prominent issues identified in the survey. Acco...
Sales and Marketing Collaboration
- 16 May 2012 11:11
- by Holly Lyke Ho Gland
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The Growth Team Membership™ (GTM) program recently surveyed marketing executives to identify their principal challenges for 2012. The survey found that marketers struggle to (1) cultivate a differentiated value proposition that resonates with clients, and (2) ensure Sales adopts the appropriate messaging and materials. Survey respondents indicate ...
Delta Air Lines to buy a US East Coast oil refinery from ConocoPhillips. A good investment but definitely not a hedge against jet fuel crack spreads.
- 02 May 2012 11:33
- by Diogenis Papiomytis
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In order to discuss the implications of this move by Delta, we first need to acknowledge the main drivers to the deal. If we exclude short-term shifts and look only at mid-term macro developments, we can observe the following: a) Heating oil crack spreads, a proxy for jet fuel cracks, have tripled compared to 2009 and now stand at about $30 per bar...
How to revitalize your demand management process
- 19 Mar 2012 10:30
- by Austin Pullmann
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It’s the rare B2B marketer who hasn’t had to listen to sales reps complain about the quality of leads being provided. And sales forces tend to be underwhelmed by the volume of leads too. So what to do? Ramping up demand generation efforts makes little sense if the lead management process (i.e., what happens to it when it comes in the door) is funda...
The Implementation Deficit: 2012 Corporate Strategy Priorities Survey Results
- 19 Mar 2012 09:49
- by Holly Lyke Ho Gland
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Strategists continue to struggle with many of the perennial issues they identified in the 2011 survey—developing effective implementation plans and aligning corporate and financial objectives. In regards to implementation, the focus is on developing an effective procedure for execution that includes standardized metrics and milestones. Companies ne...
Kodak - After 130 years in development, will it go in a flash?
- 23 Jan 2012 07:48
- by Noel Anderson
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This coming summer will play witness to my 5th wedding anniversary. In that time my wife and I have honeymooned, bought a family home and filled it up with two (sometimes) lovely children. In short, in the last half decade, we’ve had more Kodak moments than there have been EU regulations defining the shape that a banana needs to be in order to be a...
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