As founder and managing director of innovation consultancy Strategos, Peter Skarzynski meets with a lot of businesses. A year ago, when he made client calls, corporations were mostly talking about...
Yesterday, Google announced a new "stable" release of its open source browser for Windows, adding some 1,500 "Extensions" (which add functions to the browser toolbar) and "Bookmark Sync", which synchronizes...
Who are the most innovative companies of the 2000s? Scott Anthony, managing director of Innosight Ventures, posed that question on his Harvard Business Review blog. (Actually, he asked for "the...
Anyone who's seen the documentary Food Inc. knows that Monsanto comes across as a thug. Its bioengineered soybeans, designed to be unaffected by Monsanto weedkiller Roundup, command 93% of the...
Steve Kroft put together a great piece on America's proposed virtual fence along the border of the U.S. and Mexico for the weekend’s Sixty Minutes show. What particularly struck me...
Who are the patent champs of 2009? Samsung and Toyota, of course. But would you have guessed Mondobiotech, a Swiss company that specializes in fermentation? Thomson Reuters just forwarded to...
Ford CEO Alan Mulally delivered the opening keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas this morning. The car company's theme, ahead of next week's North American International Auto...
The U.S. drug industry, historically one of the most lavish spenders on research and development, ended 2009 with plans to eliminate a record 69,100 jobs. The toll is up 60%...
As excitement around today's launch of Google's Nexus One phone reached heights matched only by the Burj Khalifa (sorry), one commentator came out with a really smart take on what...
Recently, I wrote a story about the Aspen Design Summit, a small event at which big name designers and philanthropists got together to talk about ways to apply the techniques...
What comes next? The Bloomberg Businessweek Innovation and Design blog chronicles new tools for creativity and collaboration, innovation case studies in both the corporate and social sectors, and the new ideas that have the power to change the way things have always been done.
