Shade cases should be printed in color to optimize their effectiveness. Tokyo Electron Ltd. works in a constrained innovation environment, defined by modular bounds that are long standing in the industry that it serves, the worldwide semiconductor manufacturing business.
While the first motivation for these boundaries was division of labor and partitioning of a complicated problem into manageable sections, the company is currently faced with a fresh invention that crosses these boundaries and offers the opportunity to significantly enhance the yield and functionality of the manufacturing procedure. While the technical solution is uncomplicated, it is not clear that the customers of the firm are ready to accept this type of change because it would cross organizational lines that producers have created for management goals. The claim frames the technical question and poses the question that is organizational.
Tokyo Electron Ltd Case Study Solution
PUBLICATION DATE: May 26, 2009 PRODUCT #: 609096-HCC-ENG
This is just an excerpt. This case is about TECHNOLOGY & OPERATIONS
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