In my last blog on digital transformation in the chemical industry, I discussed the opportunity for leaders to embrace the opportunity to re-think their business models.  One approach involved competing on outcomes; selling and delivering quantifiabl...

Digital strategist Greg Verdino has mentioned that if the change you’re observing is happening outside of your company, you’re likely being disrupted; if the change is happening within your company, you’re transforming.  Clearly – we’d all prefer to ...

Last week, I joined Peter Maier, Dieter Haesslein and the rest of the Energy & Natural Resources (ENR) leaders in Walldorf for the first of a two-part Leadership Academy facilitated by professor Roger Lehman from INSEAD.  The fact that we were dedica...

Last week, some 350 chemical industry professionals converged on Atlanta for the first SAP for Chemicals event.  By all measures, it was a phenomenal success, from the informative and entertaining keynotes, to the topically-focused breakouts, and the...

This month at SAPPHIRE NOW the overall mantra was “simplify everything so that you can do everything”. Customers really seemed to appreciate this message. It made many of them ask themselves: What does this mean for a typical chemical company, and ho...