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The Industrial Perspective2 Major Trends Shaping the Future Workplace
Pages 17-24

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... The Industrial Perspective
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... APC's business AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC., is more than 50 percent outside the United States, with the COMPANY STRATEGY fastest-growing area being the Asian region. Key roles for chemists and chemical engineers are embedded in Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
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... have been supplied in the United States, to Motorola and Intel, and now this business model has been taken around the AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC., world to follow previous and new customers. TECHNOLOGY DIMENSIONS Figure 2.1 shows a generic value chain that is changing as businesses become more global.
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... This is partially due to the learned from customers and from the different places to growth of highly trained and motivated people in India and which the company is moving. China as the United States continues to provide higher edu Some centers now feed technology into the United Sta- cation for foreign-born talent.
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... As mentioned earlier, The issue now is to access global capabilities with glowhile the United States continues to provide higher educa- bal strategic coordination. Part of externalizing research will tion to a large percentage of foreign-born talent including be finding people that can perform various kinds of work chemists and engineers, the trend now is that a number of and putting them together to build high-value teams.
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... The global committee has been successful in move quickly, people who cannot go from one field to an changing this thinking so that the products of that group are other become stranded in the company. They are experts, being deployed rapidly in the United States.
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... 2With passage of No Child Left Behind of 2001, Congress reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) -- the principal fed eral law affecting education from kindergarten through high school.
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