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Innovation

How AARP Came To Target Gen Y

Diane Ty spent years at the over-50 organization developing a Web community for younger Americans. After much strategizing, AARP has launched LifeTuner

The Innovator's Vulnerability

Self-confidence, ambition, and a thick skin are the obvious characteristics of would-be innovators. Also necessary? A sense of vulnerability

How Can Government Spark Innovation?

Alec Ross, senior advisor on innovation to Hillary Clinton, discusses how governments at home and abroad can fuel inventive thinking

Featured Columnists

Saul Kaplan

Saul Kaplan is the founder and Chief Catalyst of the Business Innovation Factory. Saul also blogs at It's...
The Urgent Need for Education Reform
Energy Innovation Should Trump Job Creation

Vivek Wadhwa

Wadhwa is senior research associate at the Labor & Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and executive...
The Global Innovation Migration

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Featured Innovation Bloggers

On Media

by Tom Lowry

NussbaumOnDesign

by Bruce Nussbaum

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Best Buildings of 2009
FEATURED BLOG

Walt Disney CFO Tom Staggs may soon get some on-the-job experience in another corner of the Mouse House. Disney’s top financial executive is expected...

— Tom Lowry, On Media
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Design Awards 2009
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Adam Hartung
writes:
"With auto consumers less than thrilled today, and manufacturers less than profitable, a whole new approach is well worth the test."
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The Best Buildings of 2009
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Hot Designs for the Cold Ski Slopes
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Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management, Tim Brown, head of IDEO and Will Setliff, VP, Strategy, Insights & Innovation of Target...

— Bruce Nussbaum, NussbaumOnDesign
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Design Thinking
FEATURED USER

Dan Miller
writes:
"The bright line between invention and innovation: collaboration. It takes a team focused on the customer to be a winner."
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Five Questions For P&G's Len Sauers

Advertising, Brands & Marketing
1. A Marketer Is a Terrible Thing To Waste
  
  Beth Comstock, chief marketing officer and senior VP at GE, explains how marketers can help rebuild the economy
2. Ads That Break the Mold and Grab Attention
3. Staples' Evolution
4. More
Architecture
1. Best Buildings of 2009
  
  The World's Architectural Role Models, as judged by Architectural Recordand BusinessWeek
2. The Best Buildings of 2009
3. Dubuque, Iowa: The First American 'Smart City'?
4. More

Auto Design
1. Local Motors: A New Kind of Car Company
  
  Through the online crowdsourcing of design, Local Motors hopes to forge a new path for the auto industry
2. Next: Innovation Tools & Trends: A new lab to feed Lamborghini's need for speed
3. The Cars You Won't See in the U.S.
4. More
Design
1. Best Buildings of 2009
  
  The World's Architectural Role Models, as judged by Architectural Recordand BusinessWeek
2. The Best Buildings of 2009
3. Inside Ski Maker K2's Design Process
4. More

Game Design
1. Nintendo's Game Designer Unfazed by Profit Drop
  
  On tour to promote New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Shigeru Miyamoto expresses patience with the recession but wishes rivals would innovate more and copy less
2. Hands On with Will Wright's Spore
3. The Halo 3 Effect
4. More
Innovation
1. NussbaumOnDesign:
  Best Quotes From Roger Martin and Tim Brown at Thomson Reuters Talk
  
  Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management, Tim Brown, head of IDEO and Will Setliff, VP, Strategy, Insights & Innovation of Target...
2. The Innovator's Vulnerability
3. LifeTuner: How AARP Came to Serve Twentysomethings
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