Core businesses

Many oil and gas companies do not consider the detailed design and construction of production facilities as part of their core business. This is often the stage at which work is contracted out to engineering firms and the client company will switch manpower resources elsewhere, although some degree of project management is commonly retained. 

In mitigation, a deep knowledge of such a specialist area generally is not required for most lower pressure boiler owners and operators, as they need to focus their attention on primary profit-making activities and other core business competencies. 

Redefinition of core business identification of key areas (consolidation)... 

Specify each major component, particularly the core business components. Recurse this procedure on each subcomponent until the interacting subcomponents are simple classes. 

Separate the GUI (and other layers that interface externally) from the core business logic. 

The team agreed that the production of (1) low temperature oxidation catalyst, (2) VOCs adsorbent and (3) desiccant should be the core business of the new enterprise and the appliance manufacture should be conducted through strategic partnerships with Chinese OEMs. The enterprise will produce the catalyst, adsorbent and desiccant in suspension, paste and powder forms as needed for their incorporation in the appliance. Honeycomb filter made of the formulated powders will also be one of the main products. The enterprise will design the appliance and provide the blueprint along with components containing the active formulation to the OEM partners. The OEM manufacturers will be responsible for the manufacture of mechanical and electrical components and their assembly into an appliance. 

JV would compete with core businesses of the partners Valne of tangible and intangible assets brought to the JV are difficult to valuate fairly... 

Adopting these criteria to 12 leading fine-chemical companies (resp. business units) leads to the classification as per Table 20.1. shows a wide spread between the best performer, Lonza, with a total score of 5 (out of a theoretical maximum of 7), and the worst performer, Clariant (now Archimica), which scored 0. Other conclusions are that fine chemicals are the core business of the two tier I companies. Moreover, companies with unfavorable prospects prevail two-thirds total a score of 2 or less. The majority of them have undergone a substantial reshuffling lately five have changed ownership or have been split off or sold. Evidently management has recognized that they were not fit for the future. 

Since pollution prevention first entered the environmental lexicon in the 1980s, it has become a touchstone of U.S. environmental policy. To succeed, pollution prevention programs need sustained top management support and defined links to the company s core business activities. Equally important, the values represented in the program must fit with the academic institution, company, or individual s existing values. For example, syntheses that minimize wastes are environmentally Mendly and may provide quality improvements and cost and energy savings. Environmental consciousness should be incorporated early into chemical research (Lnnt and Bowen, 1996). 

Besides the core business of paint removal they also started to supply solvent mixtures for de-lacquering to other companies. 

Improve the user s productivity by concentrating labour force in the core business of the company. 

In contrast to this, on the part of the producer, the handling of VOCs is a core business. Advanced knowledge regarding the effective and efficient application, as well as the proper handling and secure storage of the solvent, is thus likely to be available at the producer. Neither REACH nor the traditional selling of chemicals requires the producer to transfer this knowledge to the user. 

While it may be impossible for SMEs to change such unsatisfactory circumstances, this is likely to be different on part of the producers. The safe handling of chemicals is part of the core business of producers. As a consequence, it may be assumed that producers have comparative advantages in handling and storing the chemical and, moreover, facilities for an effective recycling of chemicals. 

Delacquering is a subordinate/supporting process that does not add value to the core business. Therefore budgets for optimisation and research are usually only provided reluctantly. 

The Business Layer is in the center of CRS where the core business functions reside. Any business application has a workflow—the steps it takes to accomplish one or many tasks or transactions. Clearly analyzing and understanding the workflow is essential to designing the Business Layer correctly. Use case specifications capture workflow from a user s perspective. The System Activity Diagram is an excellent tool to capture system workflow from a system perspective. Figure 12.1 is the System Activity Diagram (CAD) of CRS. 

Many large water treatment chemical service companies have entered the ozone marketplace, primarily in response to customer inquiries, and have linked up with ozone equipment manufacturers in one way or another. For some service companies, these moves have probably been more of a way of being in contact with ozone market developments and warding off any real threat to their core business, rather than positively embracing the technology. 

That is quite an accomplishment. Granted, some industries have made immense fortunes over the same period, which many chemicals players have not in 1980, Microsoft was just launching MS-DOS, Cisco Systems had not yet been founded. The advance of computerization, electronics, and new technology has seen the core businesses of a number of sectors transformed - apart from the IT world itself, pocket calculators, cash registers, and the world of home entertainment are cases in point. The pharmaceutical industry and financial institutions also created a great deal of wealth in this period. However, some other major players, particularly telecommunications, have seen enormous value destroyed following the post-deregulation boom. 

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