IDEO is one of the most admired industrial design companies in the United States. The company has created some of the most technological and cutting edge products in the marketplace. products such as the Apple mouse, Polaroid’s I-Zone instant camera, the Palm V and the Swiffer Sweeper to name a few. IDEO’s marketing and growth strategy is to be a customer focus organization that fosters a “sense- and response” approach that is finding the right products for their targeted market instead of finding the customers for products in their targeted market. The numerous successes and sales growth of IDEO is due primarily to its customer “first” philosophy, high performance team players, and its commitment to operational excellence. (Marketing Management)
IDEO achieves its strategic objectives by utilizing various research methodologies in understanding consumers buying habits, interacting with them to determine and evaluate their shopping experiences. As a result, IDEO brainstorms these observations and turns them into innovations that are world renown. (Marketing Management)
Success Factors:
IDEO’s success is due primarily to its customer-friendly design concept of focusing on what the customer wants. These design concepts have propelled IDEO into a widely recognized, forward thinking design and development organization. IDEO designs products, services, and digital apparatuses. The firm has created over 4,000 projects for various organizations such as, Japan’s NEC, Dancell of Denmark, Procter and Gamble, USA, Pepsi Co, USA. IDEO also successfully designed and developed the Heart and Vascular Center of Memorial Hospital and Health System. It designed a successful device that can be use by surgeons to open clogged blood vessel...
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...l spirit. Without ideas and critical insight what would become of us? Thank IDEO for your creative insight, wisdom and creativity. You have made our lives a little easier, our work more exciting and challenging, and our space more exhilarating.
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In spite of its independence of other teams with regard to product development and marketing, the new division still need...
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The fact is currently there are no more technological constraints. Therefore, we just need to have a group of designer who have a have strong vision to make a decision and accept the role of leadership. The importance of this position is clear in an example that Petteri Kolinen said in the European Design Innovation Summit about his Nokia experience, “This led to slowness in introducing new products, and much more conservative decisions. The company dropped from being a front runner into a follower position.”
IDEO is an international design and innovation consulting firm founded in 1991 by David Kelley Design. The organization has undergone significant expansion in the past two decades. It employs over 700 people and generates approximately $150 millions in revenues. IDEO’s motto depends on creative people who can innovate design within the context of human needs (founded by Stanford University, Professor David Kelley). It has offices in Chicago, New York City, Palo Alto, and San Francisco), it has recently been ranked 10th on Fast Company’s list of the Top 25 Most Innovative Companies, has won 181 Industrial design excellence awards, has won 41 Red Dot awards, 28iF Hannover awards, 18 Medical design excellence awards and more IDEA awards
II. Company Description 3M, internationally established in 1951, is a $16 billion multinational company with its headquarters in Minnesota, U.S.A., with operations in more than 60 countries, and products sold in nearly 200 countries. (About 3M and MIS Quarterly) 3M offers products and services to the transportation, graphics and safety, healthcare, industrial, consumer and office, electro and communications, and specialty markets. (IBM Case Study on 3M) 3M, a company known for its innovation, constantly encourages employees to create new products. Thirty percent of sales must come, each year, from products less than 4 years old and scientists must spend 15% of their time trying to develop new ideas of their own. In 2001, 3M spent over $1 billion dollars alone on research and development (3M 2001 annual report). 3M's corporate culture revolves around creativity, initiative, innovation, and entrepreneurship. This unique and innovative culture is largely responsible for 3M's success. (MIS Quarterly) In accordance with having a strong need to stimulate innovation and creativity, 3M has a very decentralized corporate structure. It maintains over 40 business units that develop and market various 3M products and services. Each department operates as an individual company with its own processes systems and brands. This structure has afforded the different divisions the autonomy to conduct jobs in their own way using their initiative in a responsible manner. (Harvard Business Review and MIS Quarterly) III. The Problem Although 3Ms decentralized structure was good for innovation, it was an obstacle for the customers. Customers were seeing the 3M business units as a set of individual business instead of one unified company. Each business unit recorded its sales and product and customer information in its own database.
The overall success for IDEO’s comes from the aspects of organizational process, culture and management. IDEO is an overall outstanding product development firm which helps organizations design products, environments, digital experiences and even services. The company does so through design thinking “methodology”. In other words, IDEO has a design philosophy as a role of prototyping. IDEO has as proven to be doing a spectacular job at designing products and services for these organization considering that they have designed over thousands of products.
Today, advances in technology and design are providing many opportunities for new and existing businesses to re-invent themselves and their marketing strategies.
Furthermore, I will explain the application of theory relating to me and my purchase. I will also review the marketing activity of the organization where I purchased from. This is to explain how the two theories have been used in the marketing strategy. In addition, recommendations regarding how the marketing strategy could have been improved by applying the 2 buyer behaviour theories are given.
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Some creative ideas are amazing, simple and others complex. Creativity is a process, and it improves when a person continually work hard and come out with new ideas. Harris (1998)
12. Raman, K., and Naik, P.A., (2005), Integrated Marketing Communications in Retailing, [online] Available at: http://ramanassoc.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/IMC_in_Retailing.26100503.pdf, Accessed on: 1st April 2014
-Customers: The company felt the importance of being customer-centric and innovate by adapting to customer
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