what is the research and development compartment in a major or small company?
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I am not sure I understand the question? Do you mean what does the R & D department do? \n\nThey are responsible for reseraching and developing new products or improving existing products with new ideas or functionality.
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how about: "Supplier Development at Honda, Nissan and Toyota:\nComparative Case Studies of Organizational Capability Enhancement*  from MIT\nhttp://imvp.mit.edu/papers/0304/sako_supplierdevelopment.pdf
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I have no  idea. How do you know about r&d.
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There are many operations and procedures according to business need.  You would work as part of a team, and each member/team has a specialized function in your department.  Even if you have the experience and education, they will still insist they train you on their systems for their own procedures.  Teams are part of a project, and projects are a part of the overall business model.\n\nThe basic operations and procedures themselves would be what you had access to and how to use that to do jobs or solve issues.  You can have a tech, a coordinator, manager/teqam lead, project head, operator, backup operator, point of contact, quality assurance, security, programming, hardware maintenance, there's all kinds of positions.
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Think of it like this:\n\nDevelopment - designing & building the prototypes\n\nValidation - testing in-house and sending protptypes to different places for testing\n\nA google.com search will give you dozens of sites with the details
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Many. All pharmaceutical companies have huge research facilities with large departments in Molecular biology. All Universities have the same, but the students do the research. Most chemical companies have large chem facilities, although here, it would be more qualitity control than research. If you have five years experience, you already know where to find a job...pick up a journal and start some research on a job. Good luck
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It starts with lower management needing fairly specific information (how are the finances in my department doing) to upper management wanting very broad (how many widgets did we product last quarter).\n\nUpper management may also need to take the micro view sometimes (how are the fiances in the XYZ department doing).\n\nThe middle managers may need a combination of both.\n\nMike Honeycutt
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Engineering which puts ideas in place or use, a problem solver, can be almost any field. Electrical, Chemical, Industrial, Mechanical.\n\nEngineering Research is the field you are wanting. Exploring new developments based on principles of engineering. \n\nEngineering research provides the basis for application engineering to use. For example in the Medical Imaging field, the research in performed in a lab. The results of this work is then turned over to an engineering group to make into a product. One which can be used.
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Operations research and Finance in the aread of business deal extensively and leverage mainly on mathematics. Mathematics aid business from simple arithmetic calculations to that of sophisticated complex systems analysis, logistic and even decision making. Finance rest of mathematics as a backbone to aid in accounts and book keeping.
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Your question is so vague, I don't know if you are going to get any reasonable response.\n\nOperations? as in manufacturing? Industrialization Engineering? Human Resources? LEAN enterprise?\n\nNot sure what you are looking for here.
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enterprise is a small form of company having only one owner, while corporation is a big one with more than one owners
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All small business initiatives require a lot of focus & hard work initially. I would recommend that you decide your focus/niche, and work paasinately towards its success.
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Immense potential in R&D.\nIndustry going through ups and downs over last 30 years.\nDepends on which branch of Biotechnology you want to enter into.\nPlant/animal tissue culture, molecular biology, drug development, etc.
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Kinda hard to visualize a weakness in a company that has  mutil-billion dollar capitalization and is into so many things. I would guess if they had any weakness at all it would be that they are so big. Big companies usually adapt to change more slowly and can loose a little bit of the competetive edge against smaller more nimble companies.
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There are several ways to fund research and development and there are several "best" ways to fund a project but to properly do so, there needs to be more information involved. Such as the amount needed, target group, products projected successfulness. There are too many unknowns for this question. But try to get local investors for your project. Offer them an immidiate incentive as well as the monetary return.
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WHat does your company do?
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Oh! That a good question. If anything to go by, small businesses want to take the short-term opportunities. They can do anything to make money first, and they will restructure their organizations then (I mean reengineering management). I tried to answer the question according to the framwork issued by McKinsey called 7S's: Strategy, Style, Structure, System, Shared Value, Skills, and Staff. They will confront with much challenges when their businesses go to bigger. So they must find out the way to retain.