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Apple's 30-Pin Tempest In A Teacup

It's still a rumor, but from the gathering number of independent leaks--including what may be an officially sanctioned leak to the Wall Street Journal--Apple's next iPhone will feature a redesigned...

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Watermelons, Chuck Taylors, And How Caribou Coffee Encourages A Culture Of...

To understand how a company known for its arms-wide-open culture manages to sustain it, look no further than the corner office at Caribou Coffee.  There you’ll find Mike Tattersfield--at a desk that...

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How Ford Keeps Pushing Its Team On The Innovation Marathon

While each breakthrough might seem like the end of a wind sprint, innovation is a long-distance race. Ford's Nancy Lee Gioia's talks about how she keesp her team motivated for the duration. 

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Design The Time to Think, And Solve Your Biggest Challenges

As a part of my job, I have the absolute privilege of guiding and coaching executives and their teams to solve their own challenges. Part of our focus at Bulldog Drummond is to design and facilitate...

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Faisal Hoque

First Name:  Faisal Last Name:  Hoque Job Title:  Founder & CEO Company:  BTM Corporation Faisal Hoque (www.faisalhoque.com) is Founder and CEO at BTM Corporation (www.btmcorporation.com) and...

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Innovation Isn't About New Products, It's About Changing Behavior

Behavior is the unknowable variable in every innovation, and it is the variable that most determines the opportunity a new business model has to evolve and take advantage of the new behavior. It's The...

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Cameron Hughes, Wine Entrepreneur, On What It Takes To Drive Innovation

According to winemaker/CEO Cameron Hughes, being a game-changer in any industry requires serious effort. Even in genteel industries, something might get spilled--and the language might get coarse.

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What Every CEO Can Learn From The Olympics’ Wacky Opening Ceremony

On Friday, over a billion people tuned into something that was unmistakably true to its original vision. Whether you loved, hated, or were just bewildered by Danny Boyle’s stunningly individualistic,...

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Mothers Of Invention: How Moms Help Huggies Innovate

As the maker of Kleenex, Kotex, Depends, Huggies, and other products, Kimberly-Clark is already a leader in most of its markets. But they were looking for the next big thing, something they could...

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Why The Next Big Thing Won't Come From A Fortune 500 Company

What extraordinary abilities does Jack Dorsey possess that have enabled him to tackle and disrupt the payment processing industry? Certainly nothing in the Twitter cofounder’s career history hinted...

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You Didn't Google That

The political gaffe du jour is President Obama's "You didn't build that" statement last month in Roanoke. Whether you believe this is a secret insight into Obama's evil plan or just one more statement...

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Fast Company Is Seeking A Design Intern

Mansueto Ventures is seeking a full-time web design intern to work in the online department of Fast Company magazine. This is a paid internship at our New York office. Portfolio required! Must send PDF...

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What Every CEO Can Learn From Best Buy’s (Continued) Branding Mistakes

Recently, I came across an article in Ad Age covering Best Buy’s most recent branding efforts. Here’s what stopped me in my tracks: “For the past 18 months, the U.S. marketing team, led by Drew...

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Meet Doorsteps, The Company That Wants To Take The Misery Out Of Home Buying

The process of buying a home hasn’t changed a great deal since the 1930s. Sure, there are a few more mortgage loans available, agents have mobile phones and websites, and there's third-party...

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With Apple V. Samsung Verdict, Innovation Wins

The Samsung v. Apple court case has, at least for the most critical part, been decided. With but a few details, the jury came down on Apple's side, finding Samsung guilty, willfully, of copying Apple's...

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Why Hiring People Who Annoy You Helps You Innovate

Nearly 66% of companies on the Fortune 100 list in 1990 are not on the list some twenty-odd years later. You might ask, what is the reason for this? The fact is that while those companies were run, by...

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A Look Around The Bend On The Health Innovation Highway

Eric Topol M.D., director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and author of The Creative Destruction of Medicine, describes what’s next in the continuing saga of technology-based industry...

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4 Steps To Breakthrough Ideas

Chris Gentile was managing the design and engineering for advanced nuclear plants when his brothers asked him to help them with a different kind of engineering challenge: how to mass-produce holograms...

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Google Glass Hits The Runway At Fashion Week

Google made an impressive catwalk debut yesterday during New York's Fashion Week, teaming up with Diane Von Furstenberg. The designer is using the Mountain View firm's Google Glass project for a...

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How Wine Entrepreneur Cameron Hughes Encourages Innovation

Everything you needed to know about encouraging innovation, you learned in kindergarten, says Cameron Hughes, founder of Cameron Hughes Wine.

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