Decision Making at Dow Chemical

Decision Making At Dow Chemical

The Dow Chemical Company is a leading global science and technology company that creates, manufactures and markets an assortment of chemicals, plastics and agricultural products and services for customers in over 150 countries around the world. “The Company’s 50,000 employees share this mission: To constantly improve what is essential to human progress by mastering science and technology ,” according to Dow Chemical. Dow Chemical is, by far, the world’s largest chemicals producer, with $28 billion in annual sales, generated by some 3,200 products and services. Dow’s basic products enrich consumers’ lives in markets ranging from “food, medicine, personal care and water purification to transportation, construction, publishing and electronics1”. In nearly a decade, Dow has reshaped their corporate strategy around and focused on their inherent strengths, which is core chemicals & plastics-manufacturing operations, while at the same time reducing infrastructure debt through divestiture, expanding its market share through acquisition, and building new strategic alliances