Westport Innovations Things are improving for Westport. Although its revenue has not grown‚ it has shown great resilience in the face of the headwinds that this turbulent oil price environment has brought with itself. Due to a 50 % decline in oil prices the inclination of fleet owners towards gas engine driven vehicles has also declined. This has caused a drop in sales and hence the drop in revenue. But the company was able to make a comeback this year by containing its costs within levels that
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cInnovation Organisations: The 3M Way Damian Gordon Recommended Reading 3M formerly known as the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company Founded on the North Shore of Lake Superior at Two Harbors‚ Minnesota in 1902 With over 76‚000 employees they produce over 55‚000 products‚ including: adhesives‚ abrasives‚ laminates‚ passive fire protection‚ dental products‚ electrical materials‚ electronic circuits and optical films Richard Drew June 22‚ 1899 – December 14
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Chapter 1 and 2 1. Innovation and new technologies have led to longer product life cycles and lowered product obsolescence. FALSE 2. According to the concept of innovation funnel‚ the number of successful products launched will be greater than the number of raw ideas generated. FALSE 3. A firm’s organizational structure and control systems have no influence on the generation of innovative ideas. FALSE 4. Innovation often originates with those who create solutions for their own needs. TRUE
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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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Which colour jellybean can you taste? The experiment ’s aim is to see whether boys or girls are more dominant at guessing the correct colour of jellybeans‚ which are going to be tasted. It will be recorded whether the guess was right or wrong. It is a known fact that women generally have a finer sense of taste than men. Women have more taste buds than men‚ which make them more sensitive to sweet‚ salty and bitter flavours. This might contribute to the experiment that will be conducted. "Women
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Thesis statement 4 1.3 Procedure of the test 5 1.4 Methods of research 5 2. Analysis 6 2.1 Graphs 6 2.1.1 Feeling 6 2.1.2 Taste 7 2.1.3 Aftertaste 8 2.1.4 Total score 8 2.1.5 Conclusions 9 2.2.5 Conclusions and Recommendations 12 1. The Introduction This report has been made for the course English 3.2 for The Hague University. The assignment was to do a taste test with the entire class. Our class contains 15 students. The product which was tested‚ was salt liquorice. There were five
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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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Innovation: * There are two contrasting theoretical views: Schumpeter thinks more innovation is achieved by less competitive markets; Arrow thinks that more innovation is achieved by more competitive markets. Schumpeterian Theory: A distinctive特殊 view of innovation and its central role in the process of competition was developed by Schumpeter in the 1930s and 1940s and has since been developed into a substantive alternative school of thought. Schumpeterian theory suggests a simple monotonous
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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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