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3 years ago

Choose a company you know of that you think is good at innovation, describe at least one innovative thing that company has done.

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1 answer:

drek231 [11]3 years ago

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Answer:

3M is the one of the most innovative companies which this world has ever seen.

Sticky Post-it-Notes, is the most important innovations of 3M.

Explanation:

3M is the most innovative organisation, ever, on the face of the earth. There are many innovative products 3M has invented; ranging from Scotchguard for your shoes protection, and Scotch Tapes for giving your shoes entirely a new look and feel, phone cases, skins for laptops etc.

Sticky Post-it-Notes, is the most important innovations of the 3M, which changes the many work-related and home-based methods which previously were used for saving and memorizing the information.

How Sticky Post-it-Notes got invented

One of the project team at 3M was working on making glue, the formula went wrong. On analysis, they came to know that they have invented a new kind of glue which is sticky, adhesive and at the same time it can be peel off from the surface as well, so, from here they reached towards a totally new type of product, which is known to today's world as Sticky Post-it-Notes.

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