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In this week’s Bloomberg Business Week, Esme Deprez highlights a few of the more innovative sources now being explored for fuel. In the wake of the gulf oil spill and the coal mining tragedy, it makes sense to look at more of these options: 1) Chocolate...
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Reading Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, What the Dog Saw, I was struck by his descriptions of infomercial king Ron Popeil and the famous copywriter, Shirley Polykoff, who made hair coloring acceptable, and changed women’s looks for half a century. These...
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On the same day the world is mourning the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who started the green revolution that transformed Asia and saved billions of lives, the Wall Street Journal is also honoring the 2009 Technology Innovation winners. The Gold goes...
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In Fortune Small Business magazine this month, the cover story features innovation in small business, and how to achieve it. And for those who think that innovation takes a large R & D budget, there are some eye-opening statistics: • Small business...
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In the latest McKinsey digital newsletter, Mark Marino muses that innovation is like a coral reef: nobody quite understands what causes reefs to form, but human actions can nurture or harm the process. Silicon Valley, he says, is an innovation reef, started...
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This week’s Wall Street Journal special report on innovation has two interesting insights. First: advances in technology in the last decade make innovation both more important and easier. With better computer prototyping, infinitely more data, and instant...
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In Business Week’s July 27 issue, there’s a simple chart that tells a big story. Creative Beginnings in a Downturn shows that Hewlett Packard learned to buy game-changing companies in recessions, that Genetech leaned to use strategic partners when they...
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Business Week calls them under-the-radar start-ups in alternative energy, and warns that they may not be the ground floor opportunities that investors are seeking. What’s amazing about this list, however, is the wide range of approaches these companies...
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On my way to an Ikea exhibit in Stockholm last month, I took a plane, train, taxi, subway, and ferry to the art museum. Once there, I was impressed by how both experiences underlined the Swedish approach to design, and what we can learn from them. First...
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The Merage School hosted a Design Innovation Research Conference in November 2008. It was a great success judged by the quality of presenters and presentations, and the number of attendees both from academia and industry. Interested readers can now find...
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In Business Week’s annual survey on innovation , it’s not a big surprise that many of even the most innovative companies have taken a hit. (With stock indexes hovering at about half their peak value, it would be amazing if they hadn’t.) Also it’s no surprise...
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As an advertising professional, you couldn’t miss the launch of the revolutionary new Saturn some twenty years ago. Never mind that it wasn’t an engineering marvel. It was built by GM, but created in a clean new plant with friendly labor relations, sold...
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The Wall Street Journal is calling it the iPod Lesson—and it’s more proof that investing in innovation during hard times pays off. The amazing 9-minute Kraft macaroni and cheese, launched in 1937. Miracle fiber nylon, 1938. And, of course, iPod in 2001...
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Business Week’s Top 50 Best Performing Companies from the S&P 500, as you might expect, has some pretty sobering news. Because it’s figured on a three-year average, some of the companies that made the list are now going through layoffs, reduced earnings...
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The first week of the Design (and Innovation) Management Class I teach with Alladi Venkatesh and Raymond Pirouz, as always, reminds me that Design Thinking is at the heart of all innovation. It's not just about designing new products, or even new...
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