All articles tagged: design

Why oil-rich Abu Dhabi is building the world’s first zero-carbon city.

Seth Godin, author of Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?, introduces a lesson on the role of diversity in business success from Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business without Losing Your Self, by Alan M. Webber.

Farming out product design and development can be a risky venture, as many organizations have learned the hard way. Here are five steps to making it work.

Five steps to “differentiated” sustainability for a full embrace of environmentalism.

A leading proponent of natural capital valuation says we can build long-term prosperity by assigning prices to the ecosystems next door.

Having moved from political prisoner to cognitive scientist to Chilean senator, this uncompromising philosopher of communication is now educating business leaders for the world of social media.

Though often missing, a formal operations strategy can guide the crucial decisions that build competitive advantage.

Government leaders are designing the next regulatory regime for banks; their answers to four basic questions will determine how well it works.

Consumers process only the most useful and appealing information presented in advertisements.

A review of Management Rewired, by Charles S. Jacobs.

The CEO of Silicon Valley–based design firm IDEO contends that elegant, customer-centric design stems from a simple set of thinking practices.

Four new strategies offer a path to future profits for today’s troubled newspaper and magazine companies.

Companies like IBM and P&G have prospered by opening their borders, but there are cautionary lessons from the quality movement of the 1980s.

Once associated with pirated goods, China’s shan zhai companies have become competitive players, even in mature industries.

Neuroscience research is revealing the social nature of the high-performance workplace.

Enforcing ethical standards through codes of conduct reduces the likelihood that people will break the rules.

Physical characteristics and racial stereotypes still play a role in executive advancement.

How to spend $800 billion and actually improve the nation’s infrastructure.

A new strategy recommends putting out new products in large volume and letting the marketplace — not focus groups — separate winners from losers.

Even as they struggle through the economic meltdown, vehicle makers can look ahead to a high-growth, flexible, global future.

A direct-to-consumer media strategy can help companies build brands and reach consumers in new ways.

Companies need to assess their workforces today, but they should also look at their likely needs as conditions change.

The practice of assigning letter grades to jobs has had perverse consequences. Aligning jobs with accountability is a much better idea.

Even in the face of the economic downturn, a survey finds that multinationals in China are upgrading their mainland operations and encouraging the government to improve the education and productivity of Chinese workers.

Learning from the literature of corporate environmentalism.