R&D strategies and innovation. a qualitative assessment of P&G
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R&D strategies and innovation. a qualitative assessment of P&GAuthor (s)
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Puig Denia, Alba; Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Administració d'Empreses i Màrqueting Fecha de publicaciónDate
2017-07-11Publisher
Universitat Jaume IAbstract
In a globalised world with ever-changing trends and customers’ needs, organisations must
adapt to the new environment and requirements exposed by the market. This situation binds
them to keep looking for new ways ... [+]
In a globalised world with ever-changing trends and customers’ needs, organisations must
adapt to the new environment and requirements exposed by the market. This situation binds
them to keep looking for new ways to meet those needs since the traditional products and
methods to do so no longer give value to consumers, who are ready to pay an extra price for
a good or service that provides a different experience from the rest of goods in the market.
This encourages firms to push their frontiers further, trying to find real and valuable solutions
by researching and developing new technology that can define the satisfaction of the new
needs that customers have.
However, there are products that, for its own nature, don’t have room for much improvement
and change, meaning that the product remains stagnant in time, unchanged. Needs keep
evolving but these products can’t match them that easily because they have reached maturity
and can’t be substituted by another technology, at least, so far.
This paper understands and acknowledges the existence of technologies that are traditionally
stagnant and mature and tries to give qualitative evidence, based on a real case, on how
companies can develop these type of technologies, which have no room for improvement or
change, while serving as a descriptive guide about the strategies regarding innovation that can
be followed in order to make the development of such technologies and launch them to the
market.
As a result, the first part of the paper deals with the definition and difference between
technology and innovation, followed by the theories that explain the management of innovation
strategies and the meaningful repercussions of their implementation.
Meanwhile, the second part refers to a real business case, involving the multinational company
P&G and the strategies that it uses to complete the innovative projects it embarks on
successfully. In other words, this part covers the empirical evidence that sustains the previous
theories and gives light on how mature products can still be improved through effort and
persistency, by looking for examples on databases, legal court registries and business articles
and reviews about its corporate arena and the firm itself. [-]
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Treball Final de Grau en Administració d'Empreses. Codi: AE1049. Curs acadèmic: 2016/2017
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