Case Study – Week 2 seminar China's Export Boom By Oded Shenkar China has replaced the U.S. as the world's top tech exporter. While no cause for panic, it's a wake-up call for the complacent. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD), China has overtaken the U.S. to become the world's largest exporter of informationand communications-technology goods. Crossing the largely symbolic threshold should put to rest outdated notions of China as a manufacturer and exporter
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Program Objectives A. 项目目标 FROM Expert 从专家 TO Real INNOVATOR 到真正的创新者 1. Creating a common language in innovation internally. 建立一个内部对于创新的共同认识。 2. Triggering people’s mindset change from expert to real innovator. 激发学员从专家到真正 创新者的思维转变。 3. Learning key skills and tools to think and act as an innovator. 学习创新者思维和行为的关 键工具与技巧。 4. Having group commitment to create a sustainable innovation culture. 对于创建可持续创新 文化形成团队共识。 5. Generating new ideas and concepts through collaborative ideation workshop. 通过协作式
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Review – Architectural Innovation Incremental and radical innovation have always been the centerpiece and basis of a company’s innovation strategy. Henderson and Clark (1990) however, attempt to bring another categorization of innovation to the foreground. Termed as architectural innovation, they define it as “innovations that change the way in which the components of a product are linked together, while leaving the core design concepts untouched”. This type of innovation serves to make established
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Paper: November 2006 Innovation: Basic Concepts and Models By S. N. Nasirpourosgoei and A-M Coles For many firms the development of new products is a major business activity, although Ettlie (2006) points out that many new products are merely copies or imitations of existing ones. The study of innovation is concerned with identifying how firms use their existing knowledge and technical resources to develop goods, processes and services that are significantly novel. Innovation is often seen as a
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room for improvement. What is healthcare innovation someone may ask, well healthcare innovation is new improvements or inventions in healthcare. Patient portals, electronic medical records, medical imagining, medications, regenerative medicine, surgical technology, medical technology, and virtual visits are just a few types of healthcare innovation in the works. Healthcare innovations will benefit patients and health care. The goal of healthcare innovations is to make the quality of life for individuals
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resolution and quality assurance. This industry, just like any other, has competitors trying to win the market share. We all want profitability and stability even when attempting to innovate the customer in ways they have never been amazed before. Innovation can be represented by
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2013/2014 Course Manual Business Innovation Block Period 5 Code: EBC2068 © Maastricht University 2014 ------------------------------------------------- COORDINATOR Dr. Wilko Letterie Department of Organization & Strategy Secretaries’ office (pigeon holes), room A2.16 Email: w.letterie@maastrichtuniversity.nl -------------------------------------------------
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------------------------------------------------- Table 2 FastCat Technical Complexity/Know How 8 ------------------------------------------------- Table 3 FastCat Sales and Support 9 ------------------------------------------------- Table 4 FastCat Innovation 9 ------------------------------------------------- Table 5 FastCat Accountability 10 ------------------------------------------------- Table 6 FastCat Job Structure 18 ------------------------------------------------- Executive Summary
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Analysis of Leaders in Innovation March 17, 2014 Introduction In today’s ever changing global economy, even the most innovative organizations constantly have to reshape themselves, in order to maintain their positions as industry leaders. In reshaping their organizations, leaders must have the ability to drive innovation and help their organizations to become even more innovative then they are. As global trends emerge, they influence the need for organizations to innovate in order to
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1) According to Slack and Lewis, operations strategy holds the following definition “Operations strategy is the total pattern of decisions which shape the long-term capabilities of any type of operations and their contribution to the overall strategy, through the reconciliation of market requirements with operations resources” Operations strategy is a long range business plan for the company’s and which will provide road map to the operations functions to be pursued. Elements of operation strategy
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