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QFD at Lexus
This activity involves using QFD – quality function deployment – to explore innovation in the luxury car maker, Lexus. Lexus QFD Case For more information on QFD see the Innovation Toolkit.
Continuous Improvement
This resource contains an overview of continuous improvement and some key tools associated with this approach Click to view case study: to come
3M
This case study looks at 3M and how it manages innovation. Click to view case study. 3M
Corning
This case looks at Corning and how the company has built a strong position through innovation management over many decades Click to view case study: Corning-Glass
Coloplast
Click to view case study: coloplast case updated version
AMP Components
This case explores the way in which a major manufacturing company introduced significant change in its business and provides a good example fo the challenges of change management Click here to view http://www.managing-innovation.com/case_studies/AMP%20Componants.pdf
Innovation in Law Firms
Ask most people to name a few sectors which are highly innovative and the chances are you’ll find the usual suspects – pharmaceuticals, aerospace, medical electronics, computer games and so on. But turn the question to those sectors for whom innovation is most important – and the list may change. In particular there are many
Emma Taylor – Denso Systems
In this video Emma Taylor of Denso Systems talks about some of the challenges in empowering and enabling employees to become part of a sustained innovation effort across the organization.

Activities
- Using the 4Ps approach to explore innovation space
- Uses for ….
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- TRIZ
- The Way We Do Things Around Here
- Success and Failure in Innovation
- Strategic planning for implementation
- Strategic advantage through knowledge
- Strategic advantage through innovation
- SPOTS – an audit framework for new product or service development

Cases

Deeper Dives
