Research Of3M Company’s Technical Innovation Management System

The competition between enterprises of the21st century is the competition of the enterprise innovation ability, and this competition focus on enterprise technological innovation ability. Enterprises must meet market demand through strengthening technological innovation which is based on products and services to meet the individual needs of the consumer. In this way, enterprises can succeed in the fierce competitive market. Therefore technological innovation has an extremely important significance for the enterprise’s survival and development.3M Company starts from a small mining&low-grade sandpaper company. After centuries of wind and rain baptism,3M has developed into a large multinational Fortune500company. It has more than forty kinds of core technologies and more than sixty thousands kinds of products. All of these accomplishments depend on its innovation spirit. And this innovation spirit has won a global recognition for3M Company.This article takes3M company as a case of technical innovation management system, through the3M’s existing technical innovation management system the company including the type of technology innovation, technology innovation and culture, mechanism of technology innovation and technology innovation management and incentive system five aspects elaborated the3M company’s technological innovation management system, analyzed the3M traditional technology innovation management system faces the problem such as the organizational structure problems, lack of effective internal communication problems, lack of technical innovation strategy, lack of core technology training, and focus only on the success of the project, while ignoring the failure of the project effect etc.. At the same time combined with the future development trend of enterprise technical innovation and the technical innovation theory, on the3M company overall technical innovation management of the analysis, put forward the traditional technology innovation management mode appears malpractice. On this basis, the strategies for solving these problems are discussed in the light of these problems, given the future technical innovation management system improvement strategy, proposed3M corporation should make clear the company’s core technology to determine the core competitiveness, and strengthening the technology innovation strategic planning so as to clear the direction of technical innovation, build a new technical innovation mode, structure optimization and the rational allocation of resources. Through the technology innovation management strategy adjustment, improved3M company’s technological innovation management, and constantly enhance its core competitiveness.This article through studying the case of3M company’s technical innovation management, supplementing the theory of technical innovation management in practical application, has some value and reference for improving3M company’s technical innovation management.