Value Creation provides a wide-ranging manual on the subject of value creation in the chemical industry.

Features:

• Key issues of strategy and industry structure.
• Describes best practice in the core functions of the chemical business system.
• Looks at the state of the art in organization and post-merger management.
• Covers a selection of the most important current topics such as industrial biotechnology, the role of private equity, and the chemical landscape in China.

Contents

1. Today's Chemical Industry: Which Way Is Up?
2. Shareholder Value Orientation: Not a Question of Whether, but How
3. Structural Drivers of Value Creation in the Chemical Industry
4. Chemicals - Driving Innovation in Other Industries
5. Today's Challenges and Strategic Choices
6. An Approach to Determining the Long-Term Attractiveness of Commodity Chemical Businesses
7. Middle East: Opportunities and Challenges from the Rapid Emergencies of a Global Petrochemical Hub
8. Survival when It's Hard to be Special: A Perspective on Specialty Chemicals
9. Creating the World's Leading Specialty Chemicals Company
10. Prospects for Agribusiness: An Essential Contribution to Global Food Demand
11. Industrial Gases - Growth by Continued Self-Renewal
12. Perspectives of Chemical Distributors as Partners of Industry
13. Systematically Revitalizing Innovation in the Chemical Industry
14. Innovation for Growth
15. The Four Pillars of Sustainable Purchasing Transformations
16. Feedstock Price Volatility and How to Deal with It
17. Taking a Leap in Purchasing
18. Excellence in Operations - The Never-ending Journey Continues
19. State-of-the-art Production Concepts in the Chemical Industry
20. The Role of Site Services and Infrastructure for Productivity Management
21. Creating a Revenue Advantage through Sales and Marketing Excellence
22. Achieving Top Performance in Supply Chain Management
23. Right Second Time - Unlocking Value with IT
24. Managing Organizational Performance
25. Post-Merger MAnagement: It's All in the Design
26. M&A - The UCB Case
27. The Chemical Industry and Public Perception
28. Industrial Biotech: From Promise to Profit
29. Industrial Biotech at DSM: From Concept to Customer
30. Leveraged Buyout Transactions - Challenges and Learnings
31. What Attracts Private Equity Firms to the Chemical Industry?
32. Facing China
33. China - Key for Success in Asia

Index

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