Question

Organizing issues concern the size, degree of centralization, and hierarchy of the R and D area in the corporation and how it relates to operations, finance, and marketing. Discuss how these factors influence innovation in one of the WSJ cases below. You may have to do additional research.

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Answer 1

CASE -Booming Interest in Zoom Cocktail Hour Comes With Corporate Hangover

INTRODUCTION- all over the world there is a pandemic situation due to COVID-19 and during this situation, the whole world is facing crises in all aspects

• financial
• mental
• economical
• educational
• social

social distancing is the utter need of today's situation and with maintaining social distancing we do

• call up chats
• online session
• video chat program

while maintaining social distancing how to face and take up as challenge above other aspects there come the role of an online platform and ZOOM is taking place especially with the corporate and in the education field.

why ZOOM?

• ZEEpremiere video conferencing platform
• join max 100 people with 40min/call( easy to connect student and take a class and also business meeting)
• free version and easy to use. (the first handler also uses it efficiently)
• more stable, consistent and proper connectivity. ( help in organizing corporate video call without disruption)

why not other platforms? some organizing issues mention above are-

• size of the corporation (size of employees  in the corporation is the biggest concern in the present situation)
• degree of centralization( concentrated employees in one area and at one level also an issue in social distancing)
• hierarchy of the corporation( every organization has a proper hierarchy of employees from the lower level to the upper level and no hierarchy in social distancing follow while communicating.

all these above factors affect innovation and somehow use to resolve organization issues-

OPERATION is the first step in any organization which also decides the size of an organization and it is backed by finance and after this MARKETING comes into effect. degree of centralization and hierarchy somehow missing in social distancing.

CONCLUSION- ZOOM video communication is newfound popularity and COVID-19 helps to archive its popularity , it become almost overnight mainstream corporate brand. millions of users connect with collegues , friends while stuck indoor and also hosting events like yoga classes, meditation, conference meetings etc. so ZOOM interest becomes a corporate hangover now a days.