A Disciplined Process

The opportunity for industry today is to understand its impact on stakeholders, anticipate changing societal expectations, and use its capacity for innovation to create additional business value from superior social and environmental performance. Capitalizing on this opportunity requires that companies apply the same systematic discipline in managing social and environmental performance as they do in managing other aspects of business performance. 

1 Why Stakeholder Value is Poorly Managed Today. Stakeholder value is often poorly managed. Several factors contribute to this, including  

The most critical barrier to managing stakeholder value is the dominant mental model. A new mindset is needed to capture the systemic interrelationships between a company and its societal context. With this mindset it is not enough to just compete with industry rivals, but it is also important to understand and manage the changing expectations of an ever growing and diverse set of stakeholders. It no longer makes sense to see nature and society as external and peripheral to the business. 

The process described below requires leadership that is willing and able to alter the dominant mental models of their organizations. While it is not necessary that every employee buy into a stakeholder view, it is important that the CEO and key senior executives actively promote it. 

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A disciplined process to create sustainable value can be built in three phases 1. Diagnosis... 

The process followed in building software affects the qualities of the software product. For example, a disciplined process with reviews and inspections along the way is more likely to produce reliable software than a process that does not rely on any reviews of the intermediate steps. Several standards have been developed to measure the quality of software processes and thus gain confidence in the quality of the produced product. Such process quality standards help enterprises such as government agencies evaluate software contractors. 

Mixing of fluids is a discipline of fluid mechanics. Fluid motion is used to accelerate the otherwise slow processes of diffusion and conduction to bring about uniformity of concentration and temperature, blend materials, facihtate chemical reactions, bring about intimate contact of multiple phases, and so on. As the subject is too broad to cover fully, only a brier introduction and some references for further information are given here. 

Process Safety A discipline that focuses on the prevention and mitigation of fires, explosions, and accidental chemical releases at process facilities. Excludes classic worker health and safety issues involving working surfaces, ladders, protective equipment, etc. 

Chemical vapor deposition is a synthesis process in which the chemical constituents react in the vapor phase near or on a heated substrate to form a solid deposit. The CVD technology combines several scientific and engineering disciplines including thermodynamics, plasma physics, kinetics, fluid dynamics, and of course chemistry. In this chapter, the fundamental aspects of these disciplines and their relationship will be examined as they relate to CVD. 

Successful management of a central HTS operation requires a discipline of process control that extends beyond the automation systems. The progression of HTS projects must be carefully guided and tracked through several milestones designed to ensure that a steady and predictable stream of robust assays are available for transfer to the automation platforms and that sufficient bulk reagents and consumable supplies will arrive in time to support the HTS campaigns. 

The increasing popularity of radical reactions is certainly due to the so-called tandem or cascade reaction , i.e., the ability of forming and breaking several bonds in a one-pot procedure. Again, the concepts of disciplined processes and predictability are applied in these successful strategies, which show the elegance and power of the synthetic plan based on radical reactions. 

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