| | | CONTENTS Question 2 3 Determine 3M’s core competencies and assess if 3M has a sustainable competitive advantage. Support your claim. Question 3 9 Critically evaluate the success of 3M’s strategies (acquisition included) in 2006‚ from both a strategic and financial perspective. Question 4
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TQM‚ Six Sigma and LEAN (29259-E09) BACHELOR EXAM data Open book Exam prepared by Mikkel Nüssler Please note: Each of the exam assignments has an individual weight. The weight is expressed as a percentage. Assignment 1 (Weight: 20%): LEAN and TQM Based on the case ‘Office Chairs Inc.’: A. Evaluate the organizational changes made by the company in 2005 relative to the theory of LEAN and TQM. Assignment 2 (Weight: 60%): LEAN – Value Stream Analysis Based on the case ‘Office
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3M Introduction 3M is fundamentally a science-based company. We produce thousands of imaginative products‚ and we’re a leader in scores of markets - from health care and highway safety to office products and abrasives and adhesives. Our success begins with our ability to apply our technologies - often in combination - to an endless array of real-world customer needs. Of course‚ all of this is made possible by the people of 3M and their singular commitment to make life easier and better for people
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Topic: How 3M draws up sales and spending forecasts? Questions: 1. Sketch out the 3M organization structure from the board of directors to the production foreman as best as you can from the information in the article Management committee (President‚ seven group vice presidents and nine vice presidents of staff departments) Controller Groups of divisions (Group vice presidents and Group head) Divisions (General managers) Departments (Department managers) Top aides Foreman 2. How many
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INNOVATION AT 3M CORPORATION: CASE STUDY There are two major issues highlighted in this case study: 1. Is the ‘lead-user’ process‚ an effective method for research and subsequent product innovation? 2. Should the Medical-Surgical Markets Division (MSMD) lead-user research team present its revolutionary new approach to treating infection to senior management despite the fact that it challenged the existing business strategy? QUESTION 1 The answer to the first question is ‘yes’. By the
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Individual Research Paper 3M Prepared for: TC Sydney Graduate School of Management By: Surbhi Suri: 16453584 Submitted On: 09/11/2010 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3M is a multinational company with branches operating all over the globe. 3M is looking to grow in the new markets for its long term strategy‚ and decided to service China‚ India‚ and Singapore. 3M expansion in the international markets and business strategy is build around its core competency of innovation. 3M has adopted product differentiation
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There is no need to change basic corporate culture of innovation at 3M. 3M already has impressive internal strengths and in order to avoid further stagnation and increase company’s earnings per share more cohesive and systematic plan is needed. We would recommend the long term strategy development to increase the efficiency and competetiveness of the 3M products. 3M is fundamentally a science-based company. We produce thousands of imaginative products‚ and we’re a leader in scores of markets -
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Just – in – time concept in relation to recruitment has also been studied by Pradeep Sahay. He writes a conceptual paper titled‚ “Lean Six Sigma Tools in the Hiring Process”. He iterates that “identifying‚ acquiring and retaining talent for organisation’s needs is essentially a human capital supply chain management”. He emphasises that just – in – time recruiting is a pull based strategy where organisations are provided with right kind of candidate with right skills at the right time and at right
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Submitted by: Group 1 Alok Aswathy Ashwini Nayanshree Sai Sujeetha Shivani INTRODUCTION The 3M Company‚ formerly known as the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company‚ is an American multinational conglomerate corporation based in St. Paul‚ Minnesota. 3M headquarters are in the St. Paul suburb of Maplewood‚ Minnesota. Five businessmen founded 3M in Two Harbors‚ Minnesota‚ in 1902. Originally a mining venture‚ the goal was to mine corundum‚ but this failed because the
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their inventions. Having said that‚ low rankings employees can’t always get their products up the ladder‚ this is certainly the case for 3M. Products don’t die at 3M‚ but this case study does suggest that many good ideas never materialize to a good product. After all‚ the Post-It success looks a bit miraculous‚ and miracles don’t happen very often. 4. Every 3M researcher gets to spend up to 15% of his time pursuing his own interests. This policy is immeasurable because of the very nature of a scientist
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