............................................................... 3 2 - Culture of Innovation ......................................................................................................................................... 6 3 - Pillars of 3M Innovation Process ....................................................................................................................... 8 4 - Breakthrough Innovation and Lead User approach .......................................................
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3M Corporation Company Background: The Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Corporation (3M) was founded in 1902. It reported sales revenues of $16.7 billion during the year 2000. These revenues came from 3M ’s six business divisions: industrial; transportation‚ graphics‚ and safety; healthcare; consumer and office; electro and communications; and specialty materials. All business divisions were profitable in 2000. The same year‚ the company made more than 60‚000 products and about $5.6 billion sales
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3M Introduction to Business Profile An ever-growing‚ innovative company‚ 3M is considered to be a science-based‚ multinational company which develops and manufactures over 55‚000 products. 3M was originally founded in 1902 by Henry S. Bryan‚ Herman W. Cable‚ John Dwan‚ William A. McGonagle and Dr. J. Danley Budd. It was originally called the “Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company” (hence the ticker symbol “MMM”). The company’s headquarters is located in Maplewood‚ Minnesota. 3M
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Introduction to 3M 3M is a $31 billion diversified science-based technology company with a global presence and the following business groups: Consumer‚ Electronics and Energy‚ Health Care‚ Industrial‚ and Safety and Graphics. These five business segments bring together combinations of 3M’s 46 unique technology platforms to produce various products‚ driving innovation and providing for efficient sharing of business resources. With operations in more than 70 countries — and 55‚000 products sold across
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1) Doosan is a South Korean company that has purchased parts of the Ingersoll Rand‚ line of Bobcat equipment for the price of 4.9 billion. The company they formed I the U.S as a result of this purchase is known as Doosan Infracore International or DII. The Doosan name is well known in Korea but not in the U.S. The Doosan brand has been around in Korea for over 100 years. The companies they own include those involved with the production of machines construction equipment as well as restaurants and
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SWOT analysis III. Organizational focus: 1. Organizational structure 2. Type of structure in relation with the type of business IV. Brief Financial analysis and trends (3 years): 1. Liquidity 2. Equity 3. Debt ratios 4. Profitability ratios 3M Company was founded in 1902 by five businessmen‚ a lawyer‚ a doctor‚ two railroad executives and a butcher. The first headquarter was in the Lake Superior town of Two Harbors. Its completed name is Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Minn. The company
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Art Fry was in search of a bookmark for his church hymnal that would neither fall out nor damage the hymnal. Fry noticed that a colleague at 3M®‚ Dr. Spencer Silver‚ had developed an adhesive that was strong enough to stick to surfaces‚ but left no residue after removal and could be repositioned. Fry took some of Dr. Silver’s adhesive and applied it along the edge of a piece of paper. The
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is the 3M culture. The official vision statement is “to be the most innovative enterprise in the world”‚ and 3M’s basic definition is: “new ideas +action or implementation which results in an improvement‚ gain‚ or profit”. 3M has also coined the word “inventorpreneur” for those who invent and implement. The culture encourages stubborn persistence amongst employees to accept and promote their ideas - “do your own thing”. The culture is taught and conveyed through stories and myth about 3M inventorpreneurs
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3M Company - 2010 Sustainability Report 3M Corporate Headquarters 3M Center St. Paul‚ MN 55144-1000 1-888-3M-HELPS Table of Contents: • • Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Content Index Vision & Strategy • Company Information • 3M’s Sustainability Vision • Sustainability Strategies • Key Objectives around Sustainable Development • 3M’s Governance Structure • Business Conduct • 3M Public Policy • Environmental‚ Health‚ & Safety Management • Supply Chain Sustainability • Economic Management: Building
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Department of Corrections Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 3 Recommendation 4 Supporting Reasons for Recommendation 5 Increase Employee Productivity 5 Improve Job Satisfaction 7 Reduce Employee Turnover 8 Counterargument and Rebuttal 9 Reservations against Recommendation 9 Rebuttal of Reservations 9 Conclusion 10 Reference List 11 Executive Summary This report will discuss how low
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