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May 22, 2008
 

Innovation & Design

A weekly guide to innovative people, ideas, and companies

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INNOVATION
Why GE Is Getting Out of the Kitchen
Stoves, refrigerators, and other appliances used to be the core of General Electric's business. But now the hot growth is elsewhere

INNOVATION
C.K. Prahalad: The New Age of Innovation
A new book from the Bottom of the Pyramid guru lays out the new landscape of business, driven by consumer co-creation and service customization

RETAILING
Nau Is Then
The hip green clothing label with an unconventional approach to style, materials, and retailing calls it quits. What went wrong?

  PRODUCT DESIGN
GAME REVIEW
Wii Fit Puts the Fun in Fitness
The newest add-on for the popular Nintendo console challenges players with yoga, strength training, and aerobic exercises

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Hotel Rooms by Design
How the hospitality crowd in Chicago is differentiating its "lifestyle" inns through smart design and sophisticated amenities

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  Inside: This Week in Innovation
This week, we look at organizations in transition: companies leaving once-fundamental businesses, companies trying to reinvent themselves, and some that are closing outright. Innovation and design writer Matt Vella analyzes General Electric's decision to exit the appliance business -- a field which helped it become a household name in the U.S. The company sees more opportunities to innovate in health care and energy than it does in consumers' kitchens. Vella also writes about the upcoming major redesign of Facebook, an attempt by the rapidly growing social networking company to regain the simple aesthetic that helped make it popular in the first place. Meanwhile, contributing writer Ernest Beck looks at the the fall of Nau, a hip green-clothing label with an unconventional approach to style, materials, and retailing which just announced it's shuttering its business. And I review The New Age of Innovation, the new book by C.K. Prahalad and M.S. Krishnan, which gives a snapshot of a global business landscape marked by consumer co-creation and service customization.
-- Helen Walters
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