Innovation & Design Columnists

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Paul Bennett

Bennett is creative director of IDEO, recently ranked No. 28 in the Boston Consulting Group's "World's 25 Most Innovative Companies."

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Bill Buxton

Bill Buxton is Principal Scientist at Microsoft Research and the author of Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design. Previously, he was a researcher at Xerox PARC, a professor at the University of Toronto, and Chief Scientist of Alias Research and SGI Inc.

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Henry Chesbrough

Henry Chesbrough is Executive Director of the Center for Open Innovation at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He is the author of Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape (Harvard Business School Press, 2006). He is an authority on open innovation, open business models, and open approaches to intellectual property management.

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Jesse James Garrett

Garrett is president of Adaptive Path, a user experience firm in San Francisco. He is the author of The Elements of User Experience and is an internationally recognized leader in the field. His work has been published in more than a dozen languages, and he is a frequent keynote speaker and writer on user experience strategy.

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John Hagel and John Seely Brown

John Hagel and John Seely Brown are co-chairman and independent co-chairman, respectively, of Deloitte LLP's Center for Edge Innovation. John Hagel writes a blog at Edge Perspectives. Their monthly column, Innovation on the Edge, explores what executives can learn from innovation emerging on various forms of edges, including the edges of institutions, markets, geographies and generations. Sign up here for an RSS feed.

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Larry Keeley

Keeley is president and co-founder of Chicago-based Doblin, a leading consulting firm that focuses on effective innovation. He lectures frequently and teaches at IIT's Institute of Design and the Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

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Lara Lee

Lara Lee is a directing associate of Jump Associates and former VP of Enthusiast Services at Harley-Davidson.

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Roger L. Martin

Roger Martin has served as dean of the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto since 1998. He was previously a director and co-head of Monitor Company, a global strategy consulting firm based in Cambridge, Mass. He is director of Thomson Corporation and Research in Motion and has just published his second book, The Opposable Mind (Harvard Business School Press).

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David Perry

A 25-year video game industry veteran, Perry is the chief creative officer of Acclaim Games and the founder of GameInvestors.com (which helps developers find funding for their games). Perry sits on the advisory boards of the Game Developers Conference, the Hollywood & Games Conference, the Gamers Expo, and Westwood College.

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Jeneanne Rae

Rae is the co-founder and president of Peer Insight, a research and advisory firm focused on service innovation and customer-experience design for S&P 500 firms. When not researching, consulting, or writing, she teaches executives in client companies and MBAs at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business how to structure and manage innovation.

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Don Tapscott

Don Tapscott is co-founder and chairman of the think tank New Paradigm, a BSG Alliance company. He is the author of 11 books. Most recently, with Anthony D. Williams, he wrote Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything. Tapscott teaches at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. He has participated in the Davos meeting of the World Economic Forum several times.

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Patrick Whitney

Whitney is the Steelcase/Robert C. Pew Professor and the director of the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology. His research and consulting focus on methods for developing insights about users and linking these insights to strategy. Current projects include the Institute of Design Strategy Conference and planning economically sustainable innovations in "base of the pyramid" markets in India.

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