Business media round up

Brainstorming sessions have led to important innovations at Kaiser Permamente. Here's how the managed-care company did it

Marty Cooper, the pioneer of mobile telephony, has spent his entire career pushing wireless communications to new heights

The Museum of Modern Art is revisiting its role as design arbiter with this selection of more than 100 objects from its collection

Maya Design's team collaborates to help engineers understand design. How a little lab called MAYA is giving firms such as Emerson and General Dynamics an innovation boost

Despite the best efforts of the design community, design is still struggling to influence companies in meaningful ways. The fault lies mostly within the design profession itself, which is unable to supply leadership equal to the current demand

Social design, service design, service innovation - call it what you will, this innovative approach to tackling social problems is rapidly gaining traction

The way digital products look often bears no relation to what they do. Take the iPod Shuffle. How could you be expected to guess what that tiny metal box does by looking at it? There are no clues to suggest that it might play music

4D Creations' Richard Habergham on how to get the best out of a specialist product designer

A rush to lock in design detail early has the side-effect of locking out innovation at a time when you know the least about the product you're developing

Global brands such as BMW, Levi's Original Music and Red Bull have joined a few high profile South African brands in testing the IdeaBounty approach to open up their branding or promotional strategy to independent designers and creatives

Lessons on product led brand innovation from Amazon's Kindle which shows that innovation cannot be delivered through conventional marketing media alone

The failure of existing modes of delivering services to consumers, students, patients, travelers, etc., is making Design a hugely important system of reframing old problems and creating new answers.

To ensure that the whole UK is included in the digital future three new research hubs have been unveiled by the Research Councils UK that will be based in Aberdeen, Nottingham and Newcastle that will develop technologies of the future.

An innovation fund which is expected to be worth £20m will provide cash prizes of up to £1m each for people coming forward with inventions to tackle the NHS's "key health challenges"

200 local companies have been discovering how design can deliver real benefits to their business, even during the current economic downturn.

Emerging alternatives to the shareholder-centric model — at Grameen Danone Foods, the John Lewis Partnership, Novo Nordisk, and elsewhere — could help companies avoid ethical mishaps and contribute more to the world at large.

Marks and Spencer executive chairman Stuart Rose warns retailers not to panic and abandon their core brand values in the recession, and to keep innovating.

Design tends to thrive in hard times. Will today’s designers rise to the occasion?