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4 Evolving Opportunities— Building a Global, Technical Workforce
4 Evolving Opportunities— Building a Global, Technical Workforce
Pages 30-36
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The other five growth platforms are tightly focused on markets and technologies and enable faster execution and MATURITY improved capability for innovation and shareholder value creation. This structure supports DuPont's transformation.
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DuPont research has behas moved into a negative trade balance, undoing more than come much more collaborative in its efforts. In the past, 70 years of positive trade.1 Similarly, Europe's industrial whomever DuPont hired moved to its corporate laboratories in Wilmington, Delaware, to work.
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born. With regard to DuPont's expectations, the high the supporting technology activities occur in those locations number of scientists and engineers who began life outside and can include customer support, production support, and the United States already implies transnational work.
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Fragmenting the overall organi- Discussion arose out of Thomas Connelly's presentazation forfeits the potential benefits of global optimization tion dealing with such issues as DuPont's globalization, infor regional optimization. It is critical that organizations in cluding the transition from a competence base to a team base, this phase move to the next level: the intradependent model.
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He said that these statistics suggest DuPont is not doing a very Steven Buelow, of Los Alamos National Laboratory, aggressive job of trying to recruit among underrepresented asked whether DuPont has a governing policy for compen minorities. sation for life work and how it handles problems associated Connelly responded that most of the people hired are with moving workers from one location to another.
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industry is set up for that system. In the European region, Connelly became involved in some research programs DuPont is transnational, but in the United States, there are as an undergraduate, and he believes that is the best recruitno student experiences outside the United States.
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