In Milestone Two, you recommended a strategic plan to your organization for the IoT innovation project. Now that senior management of your company has approved your recommendation, your task is to recommend ways your organization can better support innovation. Remember that your perspective is still that of a middle manager for one of the top U.S. producers of luxury and mass-market automobiles and trucks.

In this assignment, you will read a case study and write a report that compares your organization’s structure and innovation culture with those of Skunk Works. This report may help you identify ways to improve your organizational structure and culture in an effort to better support innovation.

Directions

Using the information about your company in the Organization Overview document and the Skunk Works case study linked in the Supporting Materials section, compare your organization with Skunk Works and identify similarities and differences in organizational structure and culture related to an organization’s overall ability to innovate. Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

1. Organizational Structure: Compare your organization’s structure to that of Skunk Works’s organization structure.
2. Shared Vision: Compare your organization’s shared vision to that of Skunk Works’s vision.
3. Creative Climate: Compare the creative climate of your organization to that of Skunk Works’s creative climate.
4. Effectiveness of Teamwork: Compare the effectiveness of teamwork in your organization to that of the Skunk Works team.

What to Submit

Submit a 1-page Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited in APA format.

Supporting Materials
The following resources support your work on the project:

Reading: Skunk Works Case
Scroll down the page and select Skunk Works Case from the list of case studies. This case study will be used in this assignment.

https://www.johnbessant.org/casessu

Document: Organization Overview
This describes the organizational structure and some aspects of the culture of your company.