Wl Gore The organization that I have chosen to study is WL Gore. The company specializes in one technology -- a fluropolymer -- and finding adaptations for that technology to create consumer products, which it then either produces or licenses. The company's best-known product is Gore-Tex fabric, which is used in winter clothing and ski apparel, but there are many other products as well including guitar strings, Glide dental floss and

Gore & Associates In the mid 1940s, Bill Gore was working at Dupont on a product known colloquially as Teflon, but chemically as polytetraflurothylene (PTFE). Gore believed that PTFE had good insulating capabilities and wanted to use it to insulate cables and ribbon cables in computers. With his son acting as muse, Gore was able to get PTFE to stick as insulation on a cable. When Dupont would not agree to

Culture & Diversity The organization profiled here will be W.L. Gore. The company basically has one product, and it creates its business by applying this product to a number of different consumer items, everything from guitar strings to outerwear to medical equipment and more. The company is able to generate revenue by leveraging its core technology in a lot of different applications by emphasizing the important of innovation in the company culture

Tidd Bessant (2009) process model knowledge management innovation, figure 11.3, describe WL Gore & Associates link innovation knowledge management. Justify answer examples. Knowledge management: WL Gore & Associates Knowledge management is often described as using research and knowledge to secure a competitive advantage for an organization. Merely accumulating data is not enough for the information to be construed as knowledge. For the knowledge to be helpful, it must be placed in