Organization corporate transformations

Karsten NeufFer is an associate principal at McKinsey and is based in the Berlin Office. He is a member of the global chemicals practice and the Asia House Frankfurt and co-leads the knowledge initiative on Chemicals in China . He has worked in various fields in the chemicals and non-ferrous metals industries, with a particular focus on corporate strategy, organization, corporate transformation, as well as China. He holds a master of science in industrial engineering and an MBA from the University of Chicago. 

This model will be our organizing frame for the chapter. We wiU discuss the role of ISE in corporate transformation, in the achievement of organizational full potential performance. As you see in Figure 1, there are three roles that the ISE can play in this model ... 

The IT Corporation thermal destruction unit is a mobile unit that uses infrared incineration technology. The main objective of this process is to transform the feedstock into another form (an ash acceptable for delisting) while assuring safe discharge of exhaust gas products to the environment. The unit is capable of on-site remediation of wastes and soils contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other organics. This technology is based on a conveyor belt furnace process. 

By comparison, erectile dsyfunction (ED) is an example of how social dissatisfaction can be transformed into medical dysfunction and then remedied by a pill. On the one hand, it is certainly true that, in some cases, ED is the consequence of organic causes, including peripheral vascular diseases, hypertension, drug-side effects, hormonal imbalance, and diabetes. The MMAS suggests, for example, that 10 per cent of American males have complete inability to achieve erection of the penis (Feldman et al. 1994). But ED is primarily a socially constructed condition based on a socially constructed male "problem." As one commentator has explained, " [T]he more anxiety a corporation can produce, the larger its market. In other words, worrying about ED may in fact cause ED" (Loe 2004). 

Provides access to information on the environmental fate or behavior of chemicals released into the environment. Data on environmental transformation rates and on physical-chemical properties are included. Records are drawn from papers published around the world involving chemicals that are produced in excess of one million pounds annually. Over 15400 records cover 1833 different chemicals, predominantly organic compounds. Developed through the collaborative efforts of EPA s Office of Toxic Substances and the Syracuse Research Corporation (SRC) (CIS). 

They transform implicit knowledge — that is, knowledge that is partly or completely inexplicable, into corporate explicit knowledge and make it available to the entire organization by centralizing it into a shareable repository that is accessible to all interested employees. 

Bmce Garrett received a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1977 from the University of California, Berkeley with W.H. Miller. He was a postdoctoral research specialist at the University of Minnesota with D.G. Truhlar (1977-1979) before joining the scientihc staff at Battelle Columbus Laboratories. He co-founded Chemical Dynamics Corporation, a contract research organization, where he conducted basic research from 1980 to 1989. He is currently Laboratory Fellow and Associate Director for Molecular Interactions Transformation in the Chemical Sciences Division at Pacihc Northwest National Laboratory. His hrst computational studies in 1972 involved kinetic Monte Carlo simulations with D.L. Bunker as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the University of California, Irvine, and resulted in his hrst TACC publication in 1974. 

In 1877, Charles Friedel and James Mason Crafts [30a, b] corporately discovered that treatment of amyl chloride with aluminum strips in benzene led to the formation of amylben-zene. This type of transformation was found to be general for alkyl halides and aromatics under the catalysis of Lewis acid. Along with the discovery of the closely related acylation [30c, d], these two men are best remembered by Friedel-Crafts reaction that bears their names. With various modem modifications that appeared in the Uterature, including enan-tioselective variants [31], Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation have already become one of the most powerful C—C bond forming reactions in organic chemistry [32]. These methods are recognized to date as of fundamental importance not only in acadania but also in industry [33]. As shown in Scheme 10.18, some heteroaromatics, instead of the aryl component or alcohol, and alkenes instead of halides can be used as suitable substrates. Also, other common Lewis acids like BFj, TiCl, SnCl, ScfOTOj, etc., and Brpnsted acids snch as HF, H SO, and superacids (e.g., HF SbFj, HS03-SbFj) can also used as catalysts. 

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