TLDR; is a series of book reviews. Some are books I find useful, some are books I do not. Keep this in mind as we go forward.
Business Chemistry: How to Build and Sustain Thriving Businesses in the Chemical Industry is not my favorite book, nor it is my least favorite. It is well written, but perhaps is designed for a slightly different audience than someone doing the plant-level work, as I do. If I had seen the chapters, this would have been obvious. These are...
Management Challenges in the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry
Principles of Strategy: How to Develop Strategy
Strategic Analysis: Understanding the Strategic Environment of the Firm
Management of a Business Cooperation
Principles of Research, Technology and Innovation
New Business Development- Recognizing and Establishing New Business Opportunities
Designing and Transforming Business Models
External Integration: Why, When and How to Integrate Suppliers and Customers
From the titles, this is clearly for management in a fairly large firm. The work reviews successful (and unsuccessful) projects at firms like BASF, as viewed through the lenses of the industrial and academic partners. Innovation, collaboration and long-term planning come up.
If I were a technical specialist who wanted to move into middle-management at a technical firm or was trying to make the move from middle-management to upper management, perhaps this would be a recommendation. As it is, I am not. I work the field jobs and see so much low-hanging fruit, that it is hard for me to imagine this type of innovation.
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