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- Portfolio Management in Upstream Oil & Gas
- Strategic Decisions Group's portfolio management process and system for upstream oil & gas enables management to compare decisions and assets across the ...
- Agrochemical Generics Entry
- A major European agrochemical company was trying to determine whether it should enter the market for generic pesticides. Most of the company's executive team ...
- Growth Through Globalization
- After 18 months of disagreement, management of a leading basic chemicals producer was still at odds over whether (and where) to build new capacity, whether to ...
- New Growth Initiatives
- A diversified chemical company had developed a new class of performance molecules with a wide range of applications. In an effort to approach commercialization ...
- Maximizing Shareholder Value
- Senior executives of a major fine chemicals company questioned the future of a business that manufactured pharmaceutical intermediates because of its erratic ...
- Portfolio Optimization
- A major pesticides producer faced pressure to improve the efficiency of its R&D investments. The existing investment decision process, which had been driven ...
- Market Strategy Alternatives
- A major agrochemical company was developing a new broadleaf herbicide for corn that would compete directly with the company’s second largest product. The ...
- Decision-Making Process
- A major chemical company wanted to launch an ambitious, value-focused strategic decision-making process throughout the corporation. Rather than rely on a ...
- Will Real Options Take Root?
- Thirty years after Black-Scholes, the real options valuation technique has yet to catch on as an evaluation and capital-budgeting tool. The exceptions seem to ...
- Is the R&D Message Hitting a Brick Wall?
- Under pressure from investors, specialty chemical companies are constantly searching for ways of creating shareholder value.
- Five Habits of Highly Strategic Thinkers
- What do Henry David Thoreau, Martin Luther King Jr., and W. Edwards Deming have in common? All these people have what the authors call strategic perspective – ...
- Generating Alternatives: The Corporate Portfolio Antidote to Strategic Planning
- Some may view the chemical industry’s radical restructuring over the last decade as simply an exercise in financial engineering, but this is not the case. ...
- Business Forecasting: Lessons from the Accounting Malaise
- The charges are familiar: lack of transparency and credibility, distortion of numbers in response to short-term pressures, and narrow agendas, even betrayal of ...
- Syncrude: A Transformation Success Story
- Syncrude Canada Ltd.'s management committee was composed of representatives from separate corporate owners. Some wanted to grow the business, others wanted to ...
- Growing Your Business in a Global Market
- There are few industries more global than the chemicals sector. In this interview, Ian Thackwray of Dow Corning and former SDG partner Marc Hennebert discuss ...
