Organizational Impact
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Organizational Impact
OI/361
June 1, 2015
Shaun McDougall
Organizational Impact
Companies are consistently looking for a way to gain a competitive advantage over the competition. Innovation influences are important to the success of any company. Organizations steadily must find an innovative method of manufacturing goods or providing services. Companies must do this with the expectation of high productivity and low operating expenses to remain profitable and competitive within its chosen industry. To meet these objectives, the organization must offer quality products and services while also integrating innovation, design, and creativity. The company I picked for manufacturing is the food industry and for services is Walmart.
The four steps to changing mental models or mindsets are 1) Understand the power and limits of mental models; 2) Test the relevance of your mental models against the changing environment, generate new models and develop an integrated portfolio of models; 3) Overcome inhibitors to change by reshaping infrastructure and the thinking of others; 4) Transform your world by acting quickly upon the new models, continuously experimenting and applying
a process for assessing and strengthening your models (Crook, Wind, Gunther, 2005, p. xxiv). Individuals have to make decisions daily. Some of those decisions require critical thought based on the importance of the decision then there are others that require little thought. One’s mental models or mindsets significantly influence how we make or decisions.
As far as manufacturing I had a hard time coming up with any certain company, so I decided to go with the food industry. We can first start off with the farmers who have gotten better farming equipment to produce the food. For example, in Washington State with all the apples they produced this year. Then the dock workers went on strike in Washington, and now thousands of apples are just rotting in fields. I do not think they were too...
OI/361
June 1, 2015
Shaun McDougall
Organizational Impact
Companies are consistently looking for a way to gain a competitive advantage over the competition. Innovation influences are important to the success of any company. Organizations steadily must find an innovative method of manufacturing goods or providing services. Companies must do this with the expectation of high productivity and low operating expenses to remain profitable and competitive within its chosen industry. To meet these objectives, the organization must offer quality products and services while also integrating innovation, design, and creativity. The company I picked for manufacturing is the food industry and for services is Walmart.
The four steps to changing mental models or mindsets are 1) Understand the power and limits of mental models; 2) Test the relevance of your mental models against the changing environment, generate new models and develop an integrated portfolio of models; 3) Overcome inhibitors to change by reshaping infrastructure and the thinking of others; 4) Transform your world by acting quickly upon the new models, continuously experimenting and applying
a process for assessing and strengthening your models (Crook, Wind, Gunther, 2005, p. xxiv). Individuals have to make decisions daily. Some of those decisions require critical thought based on the importance of the decision then there are others that require little thought. One’s mental models or mindsets significantly influence how we make or decisions.
As far as manufacturing I had a hard time coming up with any certain company, so I decided to go with the food industry. We can first start off with the farmers who have gotten better farming equipment to produce the food. For example, in Washington State with all the apples they produced this year. Then the dock workers went on strike in Washington, and now thousands of apples are just rotting in fields. I do not think they were too...