Administration Department Term: Fall 2013 Assignment for Course #: MGMT 317 Course Name: Management of Human Resources Submitted to: Dr. Mussie Tessema Submitted by: Alex Tschida Due Date: December 4‚ 2013 Assignment Title: Staffing Practices of 3M CERTIFICATION OF AUTHORSHIP: I certify that I am the author of this paper and that any assistance received in its presentation is fully acknowledged and disclosed in the paper. I have also cited any sources from which I used‚ data‚ ideas or words
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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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what extent is 3M justifiably highlighted as the ‘innovating machine’? Answer: This case study has highlighted some of the key activities and principles that contribute to 3M’s performance. Many of these are not new and are indeed used by other companies. However‚ in 3M’s case they may be summarized as an effective company culture that nurtures innovation and a range of management techniques and strategies that together have delivered long-term success. There is evidence that 3M supports these
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50‚000 Products but 3M Still Searching for Growth According to Mr. Thulin‚ 3M’s CEO‚ “.‚ is trying to maintain 3M’s reliable profitablitly while giving sales growth a bit more zip.” 3M has a vast product line already so in order for Thulin to increase profit even more he is going to have to be innovative and come up with several strategic plans. On the business side‚ he is going to have to see what products are not reaching the target sales growth and maybe sell them off to another company and
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3M Should Paul Guehler approve the Authorization for Expenditure for the new privacy screen if Andy Wong sends it up to him? First two attempts of Wong’s team to launch new product crushed. First of all‚ it can be because of false assumptions (“dangerous assumptions”) that were made by team. That’s why we can conclude that level of uncertainty for new security screeen is rather high and Optic System doesn’t see all opportunities and threats. There is no relevant marketing research for new product
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3M CASE STUDY Q1) Conservative Approach: Three Product Concepts * Mandate from management * Should not risk new process; Dunlop may use “revolution” against new method * Need to validate method at least once before basing major strategic decisions on it. * Not enough data yet to make such a drastic recommendation * Three concepts appear very promising and are enough of a “success” already. Radical Approach: New Business Unit Strategy * Team was charged with finding breakthroughs;
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Innovation Best Practices - 3M Case Study Introduction We have been working with a number of global organizations on innovation practices for New Product Introduction (NPI) and have found in companies like: SAP‚ Microsoft‚ Bell Canada‚ Siemens etc‚ - that operationalizing innovation from its early creative stages is a stocatto like tango. Balancing creative tension to ensure innovation downstream execution traction requires tremendous leadership navigation and skill. It is so difficult for
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Introduction 3M stands for Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. It was founded by five businessmen in 1902 at the town of Two Harbors‚ Minn (3M‚ 2012). They originally financed the company to mine the mineral cornundum for grinding wheel abrasives but the investment became a failure because it turned out that the mineral was actually low-grade anorthosite (Goetz‚ 2011). After being done with mining‚ the founders bought a sand paper company but struggled on how to run it. Eventually‚ Lucius Ordway
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The company 3M is a diverse company that was incorporated on June 25‚ 1929 with presence in more than 10 industries alone. “3M products are sold through a number of distribution channels‚ including directly to users and through wholesalers‚ retailers‚ jobbers‚ distributors and dealers in a range of trades in a number of countries worldwide” ("3M Co‚" n.d.‚ para. 1) The company head quarters is located in St. Paul Minnesota‚ however 3M has locations all over the United States. 3M is best known within
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3m Case Study Question 1 There are many examples of successful companies. To what extent is 3M justifiably highlighted as the ‘innovating machine’? This case study has highlighted some of the key activities and principles that contribute to 3M’s performance. Many of these are not new and are indeed used by other companies. In 3M’s case they may be summarized as an effective company culture that nurtures innovation and a range of management techniques and strategies that together have delivered
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