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title: "3M: 7 Pillars of Innovation"
description: The story of how 3M uses stays entrepreneurial by adopting effectual practices.  A blog post from Effectuation.org
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# [3M: 7 Pillars of Innovation](https://effectuation.org/stories/x-portfolio3m-7-pillars-of-innovation)

 Written by [Effectuation Team](https://effectuation.org/stories/author/admin) | Sep 29, 2022 5:47:37 PM

An article how one company keeps effectual and entrepreneurial while steeped in a mature, **causal** business.

3M has cultivated a process to stay innovative and shares it's main pillars of innovation (internal entrepreneurship) with Businessweek.

 

Publication: Businessweek  
Author(s): Michael Arndt  
External Link: [http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2006-05-09/3ms-seven-pillars-of-innovation](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2006-05-09/3ms-seven-pillars-of-innovation)

[3m-seven-pillars-of-innovation.pdf](https://effectuation.org/hubfs/BABL%20Files%20(Public)/3m-seven-pillars-of-innovation.pdf)

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