3M is one of the thirty businesses of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Standard & Poor’s 500 Index. The company has worldwide sales of $29.6 billion‚ and international sales of $19.6 billion‚ which makes up about 66% of the company’s total sales. After analyzing 3M’s annual balance sheets for the past five financial years‚ we can compare the company’s assets and liabilities and predict its future progress. 3M’s current ratio is positive because its current assets are all higher than that
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largest growing companies in America. They are consistently growing and improving the latest technology that has generated from the communication industry. In view of the fact that these successfully large companies need to be run by proficient leaders who have exceptional management skills to continue to companies rise in its business. The four functions of management are Planning‚ Organizing‚ Leading‚ and Controlling. These four functions are vital to running a thriving company. Apple is a tremendous
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------------------------------------------------- Case Study: 3M Q: Can other Companies just copy 3M’s structures and culture and become successful innovators also? 3M’s organizational structure is built around cultures that encourage innovation. From this angle‚ the company was able to develop 6 business strategies to promote entrepreneurship and increase customer satisfaction. For decades‚ 3M has been known as an entrepreneurial organization that pursues growth through innovation. Innovation
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Organizational Analysis Paper 3M 3M Intro 3M is a Maplewood‚ Minnesota based company. Previously it was named Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing. 3M is an international science based company that develops new technologies to solve real world problems encountered by people and businesses every day. This Fortune 500 Company employs more than 80‚000 employees in 28 states and 65 countries with the majority of the employees outside the United States of America. 3M is broken down into 6 business
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Case Analysis- 3M Corporation Case Analysis- 3M: Profile of an Innovating Company Introduction Relevant Facts The next invention was the wetordry waterproof sandpaper‚ which came about when an ink manufacturing named Francis Okie asked for samples of every mineral supply in the house. Mr. Okie was persuaded to join 3M as the company first product developer. The wetordry found immediate acceptance in automobile plants and repair shops. The next critical event occurred in 1925 when
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3M’s rhythm of change: 3M started as a mining and manufacturing company but soon developed into and moving toward technological innovations and products an example of steady rejuvenation. This kind of change was continuous throughout the life cycle of the company. The change started when a young book keeper named William L.McKnight took the place of 3M’s sales manager and observed the quality problems with company’s products. He started with a systematic change which eventually took effort after
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Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company Case Study Table of contents Table of contents Page 1 Introduction to 3M Page 2 Market and products Page 2 Performance over the last 5 years Page 3 International Marketing Activities Page 4 Miscellaneous Topics Page 6 Appendix 1 Page 7 References Page 8 Introduction to 3M 3M Company‚ the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company‚ was founded in 1902 by five businessmen. They wanted to make a profit out of minerals for grinding
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............................................................... 3 2 - Culture of Innovation ......................................................................................................................................... 6 3 - Pillars of 3M Innovation Process ....................................................................................................................... 8 4 - Breakthrough Innovation and Lead User approach .......................................................
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REQUIREMENTS: Conduct an external and internal analysis for the selected firm. Explore the opportunities and threats in recent issues of newspapers and magazines and on internet‚ relevant to this sector. Find out the weaknesses and strengths of that firm and prepare a precise and comprehensive SWOT analysis in bulleted form. (10) Prepare the EFE matrix for that company with not more than 10 external factors relevant to the firm. (5) Prepare the IFE matrix for the company with not more than 10
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groups and students can only travel during holidays. 2. Education When the people are more educated; they have the ability to get more income. Therefore‚ they will be more affordable to travel. 3. Occupation Employees who work in multinational company often travel to other countries for the business purpose could be the important customer in airline industry. 4. Population Highly populated country tends to utilize airline services more frequently. For instance‚ China has a larger market for
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