3M Optical Systems: Managing Corporate Entrepreneurship MST550 – Capstone Professor Jack Raiton HBSP Case #395-017 Discussion Questions 1. What practices make 3M such an innovative company? 2. What is Any Wong’s role as the OS Unit’s general manager? How effective has he been? 3. What is Paul Guehler’s role as division vicepresident? How effective has he been? 4. What should Andy Wong do with the computer screen AFE? If he gets the AFE‚ should Guehler fund it? Case Outline • • • • • •
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Porter’s Five Forces Threat of New Entrants Grocery market in UK is primary dominate by few big organisation which including Tesco‚ Asda‚ Safeway and Sainsbury’s. Nowadays‚ grocery market has transformed into supermarket business. Customers prefer one stop shopping and supermarket usually provide more selection of products and products quality can be assure. Hence‚ it is hard and strong barrier for the new organisation to enter the market. New entrants need to have sufficient capital to set up
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3M The article “Strategic Stories: How 3M is Rewriting Business Planning” is a two in one type of article. The author initially discusses the drawbacks of using bullet point in presentations‚ mainly on how it contains lack of information‚ clarity and attention to the audience. The author continues by giving an alternative way of delivering the idea in mind by a strategic narrative style‚ which captures the audience and delivers the points needed to be made effectively. Throughout the article the
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Porter’s Five Forces Model Porter five forces model is basically a framework for industry analysis. It helps in business strategy development. It was presented by Micheal Porter. According to this framework‚ there are 5 forces that determine the competitiveness of a market and its attractiveness and profitability. These forces are threat of substitute products‚ bargaining power of buyers‚ bargaining power of sellers‚ threat of new entrants‚ competitive rivalry within an industry. Any industry can
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3M Strategy 1) How does your company handle strategy? How does your company handle strategy? Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing‚ also known as 3M‚ is one of the world’s premier manufacturing companies. The 3M Company handles strategy like mostly any other business. The number one reason people go into a business is because they want to make as much money as possible. This can be accomplished if they have a strategic approach to it. For example‚ the most important strategy that 3M uses is selling
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PORTERS FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS Nike Brief History Nike has one mission statement: To carry out the legacy of innovative thinking left by the founding members by developing products that enable athletes of all abilities to maximize their potential while beating competition and creating value for shareholders. Nikes headquarters are located in Beaverton‚ Oregon in Portland and the company operates in more than 160 countries all over the world with more than 30‚000 employees across all six
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Innovation at 3M 3M attributed much of its growth to its innovative products and incremental/extensions of existing products. However‚ of late they hadn’t come up with anything significant and they were stagnating. At this point‚ Ms. Rita Shor implemented the “Lead User Research” methodology to come up with four recommendations on new innovative products and strategy. In my opinion‚ Ms. Shor should put forward their first three recommendations to Mr. Dunlop. They consisted of development of three
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core; 4. technostructure : the analysts who design‚ plan‚ change or train the operating core; 5. support staff : the specialists who provide support to the organisation outside of the operating core’s activities; 6. ideology: the traditions and beliefs that make the organisation unique. author: Mintzberg‚ Henry country: Canada period: 1979 The components are linked by four flows: type: model role: consultant activity: analyse and design topic: org. design & development abstr. level:
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1. How the 3 M innovation process evolved from the time the company was found? Answer: The innovation process at 3M has typically been a focus area for the upper management. The company had taken a getoutoftheway attitude towards the product developers who in turn have worked accordingly towards innovation. Along with technicians each team had a process engineer to ensure that the product was efficiently made. The entire team did not face any risk if the product failed.
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Estimating Water Requirements for Irrigation Purposes in Al-Sharqia Governorate‚ Egypt‚ Using S(REG_AR) Model Ahmed Helmy El-Sayed1*‚ Magdy Hassan Mowafey 2‚ and Maha Rashad Fahmy3 Abstract—High percent of the Arab countries suffer from great shortage in their water resources because it lies in hot arid and semiarid regions. However‚ vast areas of these regions are utilized for agricultural production‚ which require making essential studies regarding the determination of water requirements for
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