Providing strategic advisory services and market insights to leaders in the chemicals industry.
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ISG has a proven track record of supporting the largest global chemical companies - we've advised on over 600 chemicals industry engagements in the last 5 years alone. We bring experience as industry leaders and as IT, business process and sourcing advisors on high-TCV, high-complexity outsourcing transactions across industries.
Beyond our depth of experience, ISG is unique for our data. We've assembled a comprehensive and unique set of data, analytics and market intelligence built through 30+ years of data collection and analysis around pricing, contracts and sourcing. This data gives us unmatched insights into operational, financial and commercial best practices. And it's not just the largest real-time market price database in the world, it's also a tool to ensure long-term competitiveness of contracts and to model future scenarios for impact of automation, transformation and consolidation. Our advisory services cover assessing gaps, building actionable strategies, sourcing partners, supporting digital transformation, optimizing costs and ensuring value realization.
Contact Us to Get StartedAI investment is accelerating, but results remain uneven. Only one in four initiatives is meeting revenue impact expectations, at an average spend of $1.3M per use case. Enterprises are no longer asking whether AI works. They are being asked to prove that it pays.
We help you identify where AI agents deliver the most value, restructure workflows around them and build the accountability models that keep autonomous execution auditable. The enterprises that win won't be the ones that reacted. They'll be the ones that designed for it first.
We give enterprises transparent, benchmarkable pricing models that tag each resource unit with the autonomy level used to deliver it. As AI capability advances, your pricing keeps pace. Both buyers and providers can quantify what that progress is worth.
We bring analysis of more than $2.6 billion in tracked AI spend to every sourcing decision. Procurement, technology and finance leaders get the independent intelligence to rationalize vendor portfolios and hold providers accountable to measurable outcomes.
We embed controls at the point of data creation, define accountability for autonomous actions and build adaptive frameworks that keep pace with AI without impeding it. Enterprises that get this right don't just manage risk. They build the trust that lets them scale faster.
We ground strategy in research across 2,400 enterprise use cases, aligning investment to where impact is proven and designing the data, talent and governance foundations that move AI from pilots into the workflows that drive commercial results.
We benchmark your AI readiness against peers across 75 countries, identify the dimensions holding you back and give you a personalized roadmap to close the gap.
AI investment is shifting decisively toward revenue-generating functions. CRM automation, sales enablement and forecasting have replaced chatbots and IT productivity tools as the leading use case priorities, reflecting enterprise recognition that productivity gains alone do not satisfy board-level scrutiny. At the same time, use cases in production have doubled since 2024, and the portfolio is diversifying rapidly, with over 300 distinct function and industry-specific use cases now in active deployment.
ISG research across 2,400 enterprise use cases shows that the strongest AI returns are currently concentrated in compliance, risk management and quality control, not in the growth and cost outcomes most enterprises originally set out to achieve
The gap between where enterprises are investing and where AI is actually delivering is the defining commercial tension of 2025. Organizations that close it by targeting functions with structured, revenue-attributable data and clear ROI measures will establish performance benchmarks that compress the window for competitors still cycling through pilots. The standard is being set now.
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Learn MoreThe chemicals industry drives the U.S. economy by generating high-paying jobs, fueling R&D investments and supplying essential chemicals for daily life. Trade is crucial to the industry’s competitiveness. As the second - largest manufacturing export sector in the U.S., the chemicals industry recorded a trade surplus exceeding $30 billion in 2023, with exports supporting nearly 200,000 jobs.
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