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BusinessWeek -- Innovation of the Week
Each week, BusinessWeek's innovation and design writers and editors talk with the most cutting-edge minds in business.
Last Update: 2009-11-18
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1. New Products Require Quicker R&DDespite financial, economic, and regulatory pressures, companies must hurry along their product development. Standardizing or automating routine processes can help, as Asian leaders are showing 11/18/2009 2. How Can Government Spark Innovation?Alec Ross, senior advisor on innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, discusses how governments at home and abroad can fuel inventive thinking. Companies such as Google and Cisco, he says, have gained from public funding 11/9/2009 3. Telepresence: An Innovation Hotbed?Robert C. Hagerty, CEO of Polycom, discusses why he thinks videoconferencing and telepresence (essentially very high-quality videoconferencing) will spark invention and new business partnerships 11/2/2009 4. Building Shanghai's Design CultureBoth local and multinational design firms in Shanghai are starting to explore the role design can play in addressing social issues such as education and the environment, says Tim Marshall, provost of the New School in New York. 10/27/2009 5. Reimagining Consumer ProductsNew York innovation consultancy Fahrenheit 212 has helped the likes of Coca-Cola and Procter & Gamble develop new products. CEO Geoff Vuleta tells how the firm also came up with a new vending machine for Samsung 10/20/2009 6. Defining Large-Scale InnovationInnovation adviser and author John Kao says that scaling up innovation projects requires acting on behalf of society, not just corporations. Could governments play a larger role? 10/13/2009 7. Valuing Social NetworksAmid the recent hype surrounding the valuations of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, Harvard professor Nicholas Christakis discusses the hidden values of being connected both offline and online 10/6/2009 8. The Pursuit of EleganceThe best ideas have something missing - and that's no bad thing, says former Toyota consultant Matthew E. May. Here, he explains the importance of elegance and evolutionary innovation in business 9/29/2009 9. Business Should Think Like DesignersTim Brown, CEO of design shop IDEO, writes in his new book, Change by Design, that companies would do better by adopting "design thinking." Learn what customers want, he says, and answer their needs 9/22/2009 10. Turn the Downturn to Your AdvantageBain & Co. partner Darrell Rigby, author of Winning in Turbulence, says smart companies will assess strengths during the recession and move toward recovery with daring but calculated actions. He talks to BusinessWeek's Reena Jana 9/15/2009 Page 1 of 10  100 Episodes
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