Expanding bioplastics production: sustainable business innovation in the chemical industry

2013 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 38-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alastair Iles ◽  
Abigail N. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Industry ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Business Innovation

scholarly journals Using Enterprise Architecture to Integrate Lean Manufacturing, Digitalization, and Sustainability: A Lean Enterprise Case Study in the Chemical Industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 4851
Author(s):  
Ming-Hui Liao ◽  
Chi-Tai Wang
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Industry ◽  
Lean Manufacturing ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Business Transformation ◽  
Lean Enterprise ◽  
Architecture Framework

The chemical industry has sustained the development of global economies by providing an astonishing variety of products and services, while also consuming massive amounts of raw materials and energy. Chemical firms are currently under tremendous pressure to become lean enterprises capable of executing not only traditional lean manufacturing practices but also emerging competing strategies of digitalization and sustainability. All of these are core competencies required for chemical firms to compete and thrive in future markets. Unfortunately, reports of successful transformation are so rare among chemical firms that acquiring the details of these cases would seem an almost impossible mission. The severe lack of knowledge about these business transformations thus provided a strong motivation for this research. Using The Open Group Architecture Framework, we performed an in-depth study on a real business transformation occurring at a major international chemical corporation, extracting the architecture framework possibly adopted by this firm to become a lean enterprise. This comprehensive case study resulted in two major contributions to the field of sustainable business transformation: (1) a custom lean enterprise architecture framework applicable to common chemical firms making a similar transformation, and (2) a lean enterprise model developed to assist chemical firms in comprehending the intricate and complicated dynamics between lean manufacturing, digitalization, and sustainability.

The Family Company in Spain

2018 ◽  
pp. 237-257
Author(s):  
Ma Asunción López-Arranz
Keyword(s):  
Business Environment ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Family Businesses ◽  
Business Activity ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Quality Requirements ◽  
Business Innovation ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The Family

The objective and justification of the chapter focuses on the importance that family businesses in Spain have in the current business environment, which is characterized by great instability. Also in the center of focus is how these family businesses integrate family values with a sustainable business. Innovation, technological advances, market internationalization, quality requirements, and the differentiation of products and/or services, among others, have led to important reflections on how to organize companies, especially family businesses. Nowadays and as a result of the economic crisis, it has been possible to observe a growing creation of family businesses in Spain, which reflects a driving role of business activity in its capacity to undertake and contribute to innovation. Thus, the figures provided by the Institute of Family Business in 2016 show that 90% of Spanish companies are family businesses and contribute about 60% of Spanish GDP and represent 70% of jobs in the private sector as a whole.

scholarly journals How Firms Can Get Ideas from Users for Sustainable Business Innovation

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 16039-16059 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chanwoo Cho ◽  
Sungjoo Lee
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Business Innovation

Do stakeholder capabilities promote sustainable business innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises? Evidence from Italy

2020 ◽  
Vol 119 ◽  
pp. 131-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scuotto Veronica ◽  
Garcia-Perez Alexeis ◽  
Cillo Valentina ◽  
Giacosa Elisa
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Business Innovation

Business Transformation though Cloud Computing in Sustainable Business

2016 ◽  
pp. 2285-2298
Author(s):  
K. S. Jasmine ◽  
M. Sudha
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Customer Relationships ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Business Innovation ◽  
Business Transformation ◽  
Business Agility ◽  
Revenue Streams ◽  
Market Trends

The changing market trends make it mandatory for businesses to constantly innovate and improve while keeping the expenditures at lowest. For any business, irrespective of size, information technology is playing a major role. Cloud computing is emerging as a driving factor for all types of businesses. Although cloud computing is widely recognized as a technology transformer, its potential for driving business innovation is not exploited to the fullest. Cloud computing promises to decrease capital expenditures and offer higher utilization rates on existing hardware. To exploit the cloud computing capability to enable organizations to enhance their revenue streams and improved customer relationships while increasing business agility, organizations need to determine how best to employ cloud enabled business models that promote sustainable competitive advantage, as this chapter discusses. By completely leveraging cloud computing opportunities, organizations can focus on process improvement by driving inefficiencies out of repeatable processes and providing agility to reuse elements of business logic.

Business Transformation though Cloud Computing in Sustainable Business

2015 ◽  
pp. 44-57
Author(s):  
Jasmine K. S. ◽  
Sudha M.
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Customer Relationships ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Business Innovation ◽  
Business Transformation ◽  
Business Agility ◽  
Revenue Streams ◽  
Market Trends

The changing market trends make it mandatory for businesses to constantly innovate and improve while keeping the expenditures at lowest. For any business, irrespective of size, information technology is playing a major role. Cloud computing is emerging as a driving factor for all types of businesses. Although cloud computing is widely recognized as a technology transformer, its potential for driving business innovation is not exploited to the fullest. Cloud computing promises to decrease capital expenditures and offer higher utilization rates on existing hardware. To exploit the cloud computing capability to enable organizations to enhance their revenue streams and improved customer relationships while increasing business agility, organizations need to determine how best to employ cloud enabled business models that promote sustainable competitive advantage, as this chapter discusses. By completely leveraging cloud computing opportunities, organizations can focus on process improvement by driving inefficiencies out of repeatable processes and providing agility to reuse elements of business logic.

scholarly journals Understanding of the role of digitalization to business model and innovation: economics and business review studies

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S1) ◽  
pp. 160-173
Author(s):  
Prasetyono Hendriarto
Keyword(s):  
Business Processes ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Business Innovation ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
Business Goals ◽  
Application Data ◽  
Using Data

This paper analyzed the role of the digitalization approach in innovating business operating models in Indonesia. We chose a review research approach on the findings of economic and business journals that we searched electronically based on Google application data. We focus on findings from international journals that discuss how digitalization plays a role in innovation models of profitable and sustainable business operations. We reviewed papers published in the last ten years (2010 to 2020) using data analysis, critical evaluation, and in-depth interpretation methods to find valid and reliable data. Our analysis focuses on business innovation models operating with digital services; production, distribution, and sales. We found that the role, implementation, and activities of digital applications in business are proven to overcome obstacles to business operations in the current multi-crisis and pandemic era. In other words, the digitalization trend has proven to be very helpful for operational business processes that follow an adaptation approach to the demands of technological convenience by companies and consumers. Furthermore, we believe that business innovation with a digitalization approach is an effort to improve services in all operational lines to achieve profitable and sustainable business goals.

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