Business considerations

Whether one is working in the chemical industry or collaborating with members of the chemical industry, there are factors beyond pure science that come in to play and are factors in whether projects live or die and how they are done. It is helpful to have some knowledge of these considerations. Even if you do not use the various techniques, it is worthwhile to understand them because decision-makers in your company are hkely using them. 

In any organization, there is a desire to improve quality, whether it is the quality of a product or the quality of processes within the company. Lack of quality costs money and puts companies out of business. Quahty is dynamic so there is always room for improvement. Top companies have a focus on quality. There are several techniques used to improve quality one common one is Six Sigma. 

All projects within a company are not successful but all projects require time, resources, and money. The earlier bad projects are abandoned, the less investment in bad projects and the greater is the ability to put resources on other projects with a greater chance for success. There are different ways to choose which projects to back often it is merely a judgment by someone in upper management. There are more refined techniques to improve this process and Stage-Gate is a formalized method to judge projects. 

Most people need to work collaboratively. Projects are usually too large for a single person to accomplish. Communication and trust are important tools to help collaboration. The way a company is organized can facifitate or detract from collaboration. There are different types of organization and some understanding of these is warranted. When several people work on the same project, it is important for each to understand their role in project completion. This can be difficult, especially regarding the overall timing of 

Fundamentals of Industrial Chemistry Pharmaceuticals, Polymers, and Business, First EditioD. John A. Tyrell. 2014 John Wley Sons, Inc. Published 2014 by John Wiley Sons, Inc. 

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Specifically, this volume Intends to help the reader to understand the major technical and business considerations which make up each part of the life of a typical oil or gas field, and to demonstrate the link between the many disciplines involved. 

Chapter 3 introduced the basic concepts of scaleup for tubular reactors. The theory developed in this chapter allows scaleup of laminar flow reactors on a more substantive basis. Model-based scaleup supposes that the reactor is reasonably well understood at the pilot scale and that a model of the proposed plant-scale reactor predicts performance that is acceptable, although possibly worse than that achieved in the pilot reactor. So be it. If you trust the model, go for it. The alternative is blind scaleup, where the pilot reactor produces good product and where the scaleup is based on general principles and high hopes. There are situations where blind scaleup is the best choice based on business considerations but given your druthers, go for model-based scaleup. 

Impact of change The impact of change is the effect of change on the GxP computerized system. The components by which the impact of change is evaluated may include, but not be limited to, business considerations, resource requirements and availability, application of appropriate regulatory agency requirements, and criticality of the system. 

It might seem counterintuitive, but the returns achieved by buyout firms depend crucially on public markets (e.g., Wright, M. Robbie, K. Gompers, P. Lerner, J. Clow, R. Smith, P.). Weak capital markets and the decline in valuations have made it extremely difficult to use IPOs as an exit channel. Structural impediments have also arisen. For example, an organization needs to be much larger now before it attracts analyst attention. This means that only businesses with financial critical mass are likely to have any chance of floating in Europe. The situation is different in North America where the market for mid-caps has remained popular, keeping the threshold for public businesses considerably lower. 

Many changes may be proposed after approval for a variety of reasons, such as quality, marketing financial or other business considerations. Stability studies of one sort or another are required for most changes. 

Are there any unanticipated business considerations (such as cost and timing) ... 

The validity check shows a construction duration of 10 months, one month longer than anticipated in the Initial Plan of Action in Chapter 5. Since an 18-month total project duration is important due to business considerations this delay could have a serious impact on the project economics and corrective action must be taken. 

As mentioned in Section 9.4, the minimum capital cost execution plan is rarely consistent with the optimum overall project cost when marketing and other business considerations are taken into account. When the project driving force is the push for early completion, the execution plan must be adjusted through the introduction and implementation of viable schedule reduction measures. The most cost-effective measures are those that can be implemented during the early execution stages when the majority of the activities fall on the critical path. 

Schedules are very frequently dictated by business considerations and, as discussed in Chapter 8, rarely coincide with the lowest execution cost. In extreme cases the dictated schedule may only be achieved at an outrageous cost. It is the responsibility of the Project Manager, during the planning stage, to ... 

For an introduction to the fundamental principles of asset securitization, as well as the underlying legal and business considerations, see Steven L. Schwarcz, Structured Finance, A Guide To The Principles Of Asset Securitization (Practising Law Inst. 2d ed. 1993). 

Three predictions or principles, however, necessarily color all business considerations related to working in India or China ... 

L.L. Bergeson (Ed), Nanotechnology Environmental Law, Policy and Business Considerations, American Bar Association, ABA Publishing USA, 2070. ISBN 9781604225826. 

Business considerations. Industrial real estate brokers had an ax to grind in providing building alternatives that might not be in the best interests of the company in terms of location, cost, and design. 

The business considerations that form part of fhe decision to select the best environmental option for fhe waste material requires that an evaluation of the costs of waste minimisation, treatment and disposal be carried out on an equitable basis. Alternative routes should be costed using as far as possible acfual estimates and realistic assumptions about market values of recovered product. The costs of all the elements involved in the process from collection to transfer, treatment and final disposal needs to be considered. An analysis should therefore take account of the following ... 

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