Innovation & Design

Insight: Bill Buxton

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A New Mantra for Creativity

Executives should apply the "Order of Magnitude" rule to any problem that demands a creative solution

 

Innovation on the Edge

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Institutional Innovations

A Silicon Valley nonprofit fostered the development of a radical open-source platform for top-level health research

 

Featured Blog

Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child organization admitted defeat in its effort to sell millions of open-source computers by joining with Microsoft to load Windows XP onto its green and white laptops. The decision marks the end of the effort to spread Constructionist learning pedagogy—learning by doing—poor children in villages around the world.

Bruce Nussbaum, Nussbaumondesign

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Podcast: Innovation of the Week

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How To Redesign Business Models

Jeneanne Rae of Peer Insight gives practical advice on how to redesign common business models using examples of transformations in companies from Amazon to IBM and Boeing

 

Material Innovation

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PolyID

German chip printer PolyIC's flexible RFID tags are flexible transponder chips on polyester film. And they cost next to nothing

 

Debate Room

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Internet Ads: Irritating, Ineffective

The advertisements that appear on Web sites are a nuisance for readers and a false economy poised to fall to Earth. Pro or con?

 

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Top Stories

Why GE Is Getting Out of the Kitchen

Stoves, refrigerators, and other appliances used to be the core of General Electric's business. But now the hot growth is elsewhere

Nau is Then

The hip green clothing label with an unconventional approach to style, materials, and retailing calls it quits. What went wrong?

Facebook's Big Facelift

The social networking site's coming redesign will be marked by a cleaner, more organized look to appeal to its vastly bigger, more diverse user base

Inside the Tata Nano Factory

The tale of the creation and design of the world's cheapest car is one of innovation and ingenuity, both inside and outside Ratan Tata's organization

Is U.S. Innovation Headed Offshore?

Apparently not, even though more research and development is joining manufacturing in the shift toward low-cost nations

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Innovation Index

The S&P/BusinessWeek Global Innovation Index tracks the performance of 25 of the world's most innovative public companies.

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IN YOUR FACE: SOCIAL NETWORKING BLAHS?

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Reader Laura Writes:

"I am on every social network going, and each plays a part in my life whether it is social or business."

 

Architecture

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Will China Welcome a Mid-Range Hotel?

Hotel Jen marries high design with smart business strategy as it targets an overlooked—and growing—sector of the hotel market

 

Auto Design

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GM: Live Green or Die

The lumbering, money-losing giant finally sees that gas engines are a losing bet. But is it too late?

 

Brand Equity

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McDonald's Specialty Coffee Kick

Jan Fields is the confident dynamo behind McDonald's push into specialty coffees. She says it's ready

 

Game Room

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Spielberg's Wii "Block-buster"

The premise of the Hollywood director's first video game—tossing balls at stacked blocks—may be simple, but it's possibly the best Wii game to date

 
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