As I’ve been preparing to launch #EIIL #TransitionGeneration report I’ve also been spending some time building other projects, hoping that they would bear fruit. Now, I suddenly have 4 projects to juggle all at the same time, and I’m finding ways to protect myself from the flood. I know it’s only a few days, and…
For a curious mind, the Statista daily infographic is a wonderful source of informative, eye-opening, but often irrelevant information about the world around us. However, every now and again, something crops up that takes a little more time to study. This was a “yellow car” moment for me. What is the “yellow car” moment? When…
The above image was shared with me via LinkedIn yesterday with the comment “Wow, I can’t believe that 6 of the top 8 apps are the same in each generation.” Maybe my mind works differently, but I saw the differences, not the similarities. What I saw was the relative position of the communication tools in…
We were delighted to hear that Michel Erades, a member of the first CB&I (then ABB Lummus) talent team from 2004/5, has been appointed as Director of Operations for CB&I’s Den Haag office. He takes responsibility for operations for CB&I’s The Hague office (approx. 800 personnel), becomes Leader of The Hague office Management Team and…
EIIL’s approach to setting strategy provided some unexpected insights. Put a dozen engineers and scientists together in a room with a handful of post-it notes each, a couple of flip-charts and an EIIL coach, and the number of suggestions stretched into the hundreds. Making sense of these, testing them against the values and interests of…
First you optimise your processes, and then you automate. The contrary is, as an American colleague once remarked, about as useful as this title suggests. So, when this is widely known good practice, it was not surprising that a workshop on ‘Why digitalisation in the project execution process has still not brought a fourth industrial…
This week the Covestro plant in Barcelona has hosted a series of workshops, given by the European Institute for Industrial Leadership (EIIL), which addressed some of the challenges facing our industry and current trends in attraction, Development and retention of professionals. Leading innovation The “Leading Innovation” workshop took place on May 15 and 16, in…
This week saw the first workshop of the 2017 Ent-Ex programme. The workshops aim to help young talents develop entrepreneurial skills using the EIIL’s masterclass methodology. After 2 successful events at the Vrij University of Amsterdam, this year’s Ent-Ex NL took place at the fabulous facilities of the Haagse Hoogeschool (Technical High School of The…
~ Findings released from EIIL’s Industry 4.0 report ~ What industry needs is more young entrepreneurs. This is one conclusion of the EIIL’s working group report on the developments of Industry 4.0 in the chemical industry, and the impact of these on talent acquisition and development. Conducted through a series of four workshops involving over…
~ Collated over the past year, the report contains the findings of four high-level workshops ~ The EIIL today released its Industry 4.0 report, detailing the findings of over a year’s worth of research and high-level workshop events with industry leaders. This launch ties in with the Global ManuChem Strategies 2017 event in Berlin at…