This company teams up with world-class innovators outside the organization in an effort to enhance and accelerate innovate efforts in food and beverage.
What is General Mills?
100
According to the Fast Company article, which of these companies is NOT among the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies: PS, BBC, HBO, and NFL
What is BBC?
100
One of the great business innovators of the modern era, Jack Welch, was CEO at this company.
What is General Electric (GE)?
100
This is the topic of chapter 5 in The Innovation Journey textbook.
What is Relationship Management?
100
This can be defined as the creation of a product or introduction of a process for the first time.
What is Invention?
200
3M, one of Minnesota’s largest innovation companies, produces approximately this many unique products a year: 5,000, 50,000, or 500,000.
What is 50,000?
200
According to the Fast Company article, which of these companies is NOT among the top 5 of the 50 Most Innovative Companies: Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, and Google
What is Twitter?
200
This is a system of quality management intended to limit defects to no more than 3.4 per million.
What is Six Sigma?
200
This type of relationship occurs when parties choose to work together by sharing or exchanging resources to achieve a common purpose or inclusive benefit.
What is Cooperate?
200
This occurs if someone improves on or makes a significant contribution to an existing product, process or service.
What is Innovation?
300
This University of Minnesota professor pioneered much of the principles of Quality and Quality Management still practiced today.
Who is Joseph Juran?
300
Professor Spruth posted the article entitled “The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies” for our discussion regarding “mapping the innovation journey” for this company.
What is Amyris?
300
‘Kaizen’, the hugely influential philosophy of business management, was developed in this country.
What is Japan?
300
This type of relationship occurs when a party perceives another party to be acting against the other to inhibit the achievement of the other's self interests.
What is Conflict?
300
This company is referred to as the "ugly stepchild" of innovation.
Who is IBM?
400
In 1922, Minnesotan native Ralph Samuelson, invented this summer time aquatic sport for Minnesotans.
What is Waterskiing?
400
According to the Fast Company article, this firm is among the world’s 50 Most Innovative Companies for "selling more by encouraging customers to buy less".
What is Patagonia?
400
This influential technology CEO said “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower”.
Who is Steve Jobs?
400
In this relationship, the governing or controlling party typically sets forth the rules and procedures the other parties must comply with.
What is Regulatory?
400
This consideration in Innovation Management states that "the differentiating factors of your innovation should be conceptualized around the key strategic focus of the enterprise and its goals".
What is Business Alignment
500
This University of Minnesota Professor won the 2012 SACM SIGKDD Innovation Award, the highest of its kind for technical excellence, knowledge discovery and data mining.
Who is Professor Vipin Kumar?
500
According to the Fast Company article, this firm is among the world’s 50 Most Innovative Companies for ""bringing medical care to the masses".
What is Narayana Hrudayala Hospitals?
500
A national quality award that recognizes US organizations in the business, health care, education, and nonprofit sectors for performance excellence is named after this man.
Who is Malcolm Baldridge?
500
Van de Ven undertook a detailed study of the relationships shared between this company and HEI, Hochmairs, and the Nuclues Corporation to develop a cochlear implant program.
Who is 3M?
500
This consideration in Innovation Management states that "identifying resources, processes, risks, partners and suppliers and the ecosystem in the market for succeeding in the innovation is equally important as knowing the customers that will benefit from your innovation".