iNough 4.0 Group Assignment

I want to get the ball rolling a little bit conserning our group project...






















In this post, I will:

1) add some of the visions/details of the assignment

2) write how I interpret it, and how my company research fits in

3) write a suggestion for how we can solve it/who does what/structure of assignment


1) The student handbook gave me some general guidlines. We are going to do research of three companies, preferably with different sizes. Within these companies, we are going to ask questions such as: "How does the company ensure that it continues to be innovative?", another question would be "Is this arranged formally and which parties are involved?".

We will especially look for the human factor, meaning for example; Which factors acts as barriers/boosts for innovation? Is there resistance? Structural issues, such as lack in flow of communication? How can they create new knowledge?

Here we can also use the Risk Model (the one which eventually leads towards crisis...;), and look for positive/negative factors within different campany sizes*.
(1 independant worker, a small company with 2-5 employees, and a big company with more than 35 permanent employees.)
*I guess we can be a little flexible regarding the size..?!

Then we are going to incorporate the results from the webblog and other reaserch into three future scenarios for the companies studied.

2) I am not sure about the last point. To me this means a suggestion for a solution to a future threat?

The company I am writing about for my individual report is closest to be called a big company if you use the examples from the handbook: Armada has 26 employees.
I do not know how important it is that we have three different sizes, but I guess it would be convenient... how many employees does your companies have? I will be focussing on the flow of communication within the company.

3) Just a suggestion from my side on how to structure the assignment:

Because we all write about one company, we should first read each others individual reports.

Then we could all find some links, big/interesting differences between them. And for example post our findings in our nice blog here :)

After that we could start to write an introduction, (we can leave our individual parts (including company profile and interview)), then make a section with our compares, and end with a conclusion/suggestions for a solution to future threats.

I hope it would work to use the blog for the collective parts. What do you think? (I also believe working together through the blog is part of the aim for this minor)


That was about it from me for now. What do you think? Hope you have some input/feedback..

Let's survive this Minor together :D