Case 1 Proctor and Gamble Team Number 7 Kelly Amouzon Kevin McGhee Angela McKenzie Dixon Seda Caliskan Rajib Question 1: What is Proctor & Gamble’s business strategy? What is the relationship of collaboration and innovation to that business strategy? Answer: P&G’s strategy consists of maintaining the popularity of its existing brands and developing new products by extending existing brands and by creating new brands from scratch via innovation. Innovation is at the core of P&G’s strategy and collaboration is a critical tool to attaining this innovation. In order to constantly come up with new lines of products, P&G must incorporate innovation in every aspect of its business. All objectives and business …show more content…
| It helps business people share information, learn from each other and work together without the hassle, cost and delay required by travel. It allows participants to broadcast visuals of any type to remote participants in real-time. | 4 | Microsoft Sharepoint | SharePoint provides a single infrastructure for business Web sites. | MS SharePoint allows the sharing of documents with colleagues, manage projects with partners, and publishing of information. This allows employees quicker access to Subject matter experts and other knowledgeable staff in the company. | 5 | Microsoft Outlook | MS Outlook is an online personal information manager that functions as an information management tool. | MS Outlook facilitate the recording, tracking, and management of certain types e-mail application, a calendar, task manager, contact manager, note taking, a journal and web browsing. Employees are able to share their calendars, tasks, schedules, meeting schedules with others and communicate thru email. | 6 | Connectbeam | Connectbeam is a search engine that provides enterprise social software applications. | Enables P & G employees to search for information across multiple platforms more efficiently. Employees can bookmark and tag content for more relevant searches and share information with other employees. | 7 | InnovationNet | Online Software Collaboration System | Provides P & G employees access to millions of research
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The Procter & Gamble business strategy is to focus on creating new brands and categories so the company can focus on being the best in branding, innovation and scale. This is what sets this company apart from many of its competitors. The Proctor and Gamble are the global leader in all of their core businesses within the company which consists of laundry, baby care, hair care and feminine protection. This report is designed to understand the company’s business model and strategies, and analysis how the P&G has formulated its business-level strategies to pursue its business model.
P&G need to work hard and do more research and development in order to produce higher quality, more innovative, and more unique in products in order to answer consumer’s need and compete with those major world brand competitors.
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Abstract: This report explores P&G's "Connect and Develop" open innovation initiative. Its focus is to analyse this innovation strategy in the context of the formal academic theory, other P&G's programmes and the company situation. Its objective is to understand the impacts, challenges and problems of implementing a large open innovation initiative inside a corporate giant such as P&G. Keywords: Procter & Gamble, P&G, Open Innovation, Connect and Develop, Innovation Networks
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Proctor and Gamble recently completed large restructuring, put new management in place, and cut capital spending needs. Since then they are now focused on increasing top and bottom line results after shifting business mix toward higher margin, less capital-intensive health and beauty care sectors and also gearing towards developing markets and lower-income consumers.
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