Sat.Jun 15, 2013 - Fri.Jun 21, 2013

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Four Lessons from Mullen’s Chief Innovation Officer

Innovation Leader

In June 2009, Edward Boches became the first Chief Innovation Officer at Mullen, an ad agency that works with household names like JetBlue, Adidas, and Zappos.

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In Defense of Floppy Disks: The Vocabulary of the Interface

Boxes and Arrows

'I work on interfaces used by college students to search for academic articles. Librarians buy these databases. Librarians happen to be wonderful clients to build products for because they always let you know what they don’t like. A few years ago, my department started hearing complaints about the “save” icon on our interface. The librarians were concerned that, since college students had never seen floppy disks, they wouldn’t know what the icon meant.

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What Philips Wants from Open Innovation

Innovation Leader

Philips North America chairman Greg Sebasky, left, calls it "one of the first attempts by a large company to do open innovation.