n Management Today - Innovation : for corporate success and a competitive advantage

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Extracted from text ... M Innovation: for corporate success and a competitive advantage 48 Management Today September 2006 Patrick Rogiers is managing director of 3M in South Africa. He has worked in several countries around the world for 3M including Belgium his home country. MT: How will you describe your company? ROGIERS: 3M is fundamentally a science based company. We produce thousands of innovative products servicing many hundreds of industries - from health care and highway safety to office products and optical film. Our success begins with our ability to apply our technologies - often in combination - to an endless array of real ..