3m rhythm of change assignment

As a successor of McKnight he went forward with the planned reform as he launched the ‘ Genesis Program’ to support individual promising ideas and ‘ The Circle of Technical Excellence’ for team efforts, and finally an ambitious program ‘ Cooperating for Growth’. Lehr set an example of driven rejuvenation in the company as he set a personal example for being the eveloper of surgical tapes when he was a chemical engineer in the company. After Lou Lehr, ‘ Lake’ Jacobson also made some dramatic changes when he added more than 20 new technologies and introduced the ]35′ program in the company.

Although Jacobson continued Lehr’s R&D funding process, he was more into disciplined development process he wanted more focus in the choice of project development and an early introduction of new products in the market. Jacobson was much ridged in his approach as he introduced the ‘ Placing Programs’ which limited the support for rganic change by selecting only 100 developmental programs and ideas put forward by the employees, furthermore it became difficult for employees to find 15% of their time to work on their own ideas.