Did the innovation change “the rules of the game”? Was there another parallel innovation/development that “enabled” this innovation to take root? Did it lead to the displacement of some competitors‚ with their positions being assumed by newer players in the industry? How have customers responded to the innovation? Trace the genesis of the innovation. What lead to it? Was necessity the mother of the innovation or was it serendipity? How has the innovation affected the market
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Electronic Orders 419 orders/months $2.15 /order Manual Orders 654 orders/months $8.5 /order 3M CANADA CS Distribution Center 2.25 FTEs‚ Fixed cost: $37‚500 /month Operated by 3PL Inventory level: $4.5M Storage costs: $6‚750 /month Out-of hospitals $1.7M sales/month 5000 organizations Material Mgmt 2 Material management staffs Picking cost: $30‚000 /month Current volume: 45‚000 cases/month Warehouse handling cost: $24‚648 /month Total: $5.6M /month $67M /year Direct Sales
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Sony Corporation Time Context: End of the fiscal year in March 2000 Viewpoint: Marketing Analyst Facts: March‚ 2000 - Sony Corporation began to redesign itself as a forward-looking company in the network era of the 21st century. Consolidated net sales in the given fiscal year: 6‚687 billion yen Operating income: 241 billion yen Sony’s market capitalization: 9.1 trillion yen 4th among the Japanese companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange as of May 18 2001 (Top 3 companies- NTT Docomo‚
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References: 1. McDonald ’s Case: McDonald ’s Corporation‚ Designing an Incentive system 2. Claudia Engelberth‚ Signe Svensson‚ Stefan Zeugner " McDonald ’s" Economics of Organizations A. Citanna‚ HEC 2001 3. "Compensation and Incentive System Design Study" published on June 6‚ 2003;
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INNOVATION Innovation is about "bringing ideas into life. Innovation is linked to performance and growth through improvements in efficiency‚ productivity‚ quality‚ competitive positioning and market share. Innovation takes place at different levels from modest improvements on an existing product or process to dramatic and even historically significant breakthroughs in how we relate to the world. In all cases‚ the capacity to innovate will be a function of our commitments‚ what we want to accomplish
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Substance Abuse In B.C The overdose problem in B.C has seen a recent spike in the last four years‚ this has been largely due to overdoses related to fentanyl use. There has been a steady increase in overdose fatalities since 2014; the amount of deaths caused by overdose in B.C were 119‚ in 2015 the number was 136‚ and in 2016 the number reached 256 (Britten‚ L. 2016). Another major problem that corresponds with illegal substance use is criminal behaviour. Illegal drugs are often linked in the involvement
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STUDY ON THE KENYA RAILWAYS CORPORATION The Kenya railway Corporation is a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and has power to sue and be sued in its corporate name and to acquire‚ hold and dispose of movable and immovable property for the purposes of the Corporation. It is managed by a board of directors of the Corporation. i. a Chairman of the Board appointed by the Minister; ii. the Managing Director; iii. the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry for the
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Innovation Innovation is the conversion of new knowledge into new products and services. Innovation is the process of making changes‚ large and small‚ radical and incremental‚ to products‚ processes‚ and services that results in the introduction of something new for the organization that adds value to customers and contributes to the knowledge store of the organization. It is the ability to apply solutions to problems and opportunities to enhance or to enrich people’s lives. Innovation is a process
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MANAGEMENT OF INNOVATION? INVENTION R&D PRODUCTS TECHNOLOGY DIFFICULT IN CERTAIN COUNTRIES LUCK!! VALUABLE IN JUST A FEW INDUSTRIES EXPENSIVE WHAT IS INNOVATION “It is the means by which the entrepreneurial activity either creates new wealth-producing resources or endows existing resources with enhanced potential for creating wealth” Peter Drucker (HBR‚ 1985) TYPES OF INNOVATION Radical Incremental TYPES OF INNOVATION Product Service Process
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I. HP Background and Overview of The Case I.1 HP History After graduated as electrical engineers from Stanford University‚ Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard become close friends during a two-week camping trip‚ and they had an idea of having a business together.They did anything at the first time of having a business just to bring a nickel.They made a bowling alley foul-line indicator‚ a clock drive for a telescope‚ a thing to make a urinal flush automatically‚ and a shock machine to make people lose
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