Journal of Business Chemistry June 2018

Hardly any other topic dominates the current disourse in the chemical industry like digitalization. The digital transformation is in full swing. Production facilities are becoming more intelligent, processes are shifting from analog to digital, algorithms creating valuable insights and new, digitally enabled business models are evolving. However, the goal is not a digital transformation per […]

Do you still remember ChemConnect, CheMatch, cc-chemplorer and the like? More than 15 years after these companies set out to disrupt the chemical value chain, the topic is back. While most of the then startups have failed (Elemica being the notable exception), today’s efforts might fare differently. In this article we focus on distributors who […]

Abstract Marketing and sales in the B2B chemical sector are slowly making their way into the digital era. Especially in Europe the development is inhibited, as long established firms set the tone by listening to their best customer only, relying on deeply embedded routines and processes, and fostering their fear of cannibalization. In this article, […]

Abstract Data-based solutions powered by artificial intelligence (AI), and especially its sub-domain of machine learning, are a key driver of today’s fast-paced technological evolution. In the process industry, barriers for many organizations to apply this technology are missing know-how for conceptual planning as well as lack of economic feasibility studies. However, companies risk to lose […]

Abstract Life science research and life sciences’ industries are facing an overwhelming complexity of biology. Today’s scientific methods and technologies allow for a very detailed look at biology. What is left to do, is understanding and interpretation. Quantitative biology, the close coupling of life sciences, mathematics, and statistics is likely to provide the methodologies to […]