Innovation from the ground up is Boeing’s new key to competitive positioning. This short company-developed video clip describes the many aspects of innovation that led to the design and manufacturing of the Dreamliner B 787 aircraft. Its maiden flight was in 2009 and the...
Walmart’s Mexico business unit is accused of paying bribes regularly to local officials in exchange for rapid delivery of building permits. Already facing financial difficulties in the US and other international markets, this latest accusation could be the beginning of the end of the...
Not all user entrepreneurs commercialize their innovations. In this theoretical research paper, the authors present a model that purports to explain when user innovations are commercialized by users, manufacturers...
Ray Weaver, Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School, suggests that business can learn something about knowledge management by observing museum curators. Museums collect, catalog and display objects using a...
Using your classroom teams in their online Wiki sites, have students conduct the following studies: Look at the short case on the Walmart, Mexico bribery accusation case this month....
Curating for classroom discussion
In recycling lecture materials this month, I found I was going through the same curation process that is discussed in this month’s news blog on museum curation and business. Digital cataloging materials that include lecture slides, lecture notes, assignments, images, background support materials, rubrics, student work of value and journal notes on improvements is...
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