You seem not to know Tim's actual history? Yes his first degree was industrial engineering from there he progressed to Business Administration, and what was his first job? IBM fulfilment director then his job entailed procuring and managing product inventory so not much innovation or use of engineering but much more aligned to business admin and he's done that well, but for me that's more to do with marketing. As far as Apple goes he has done a great job for Apple but with no real evidence of engineering playing a part for him, but where Steve obviously recognised Tim had talents to move Apple on as Tim owed his job in no small way to Steve anyway, and Tim's success can never be ascribed to any engineering input he's personally made, but that doesn't detract from his business administration skills which Apple's value demonstrates.
But we must remember that without the innovation Steve injected, without NeXT OS, there would not have been the products for Tim or anyone else to build upon. I don't detract from Tim's undoubted success, but without Steve there was nothing to make a success out of, and Apple were in a really bad state before getting Steve back.
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