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GreenBiz Innovation Forum
At the 2011 GreenBiz Innovation Forum, leading thinkers on the business of sustainability came together to focus on ways to embed innovation into their DNA to achieve both environmental and business goals.
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- Alcoa's Kevin Kramer gives the inside story about the company's smog-eating business panels.
- Businesses are increasingly approaching the challenge of developing a sustainable economy as a challenge of innovation. While this is a more productive approach, it's not without its own set of...
- The coalition's creative collaboration model is tacking the biggest problems in corporate sustainability, and in the process developing a way to create truly sustainable consumer goods.
- The writer and marketing consultant shares his take on the evolution of sustainability, navigating the new economy, and what companies need to pay attention to – and let go of – to...
- Gamification is a huge trend in marketing almost any kind of product or service today, and is only going to get bigger and more commonplace. And some innovative companies are already putting the...
- Companies such as GE, Coca Cola and Nike are using emerging forms of collaboration to spur sustainable innovation.
- The most important thing to remember about sustainability is that it's not a thing, but an experience, says IDEO's Beto Lopez, who told an IF11 audience how to avoid the pitfalls that can undermine...
- The company that started out by creating rewards for recycling is seeking to become a Internet marketing platform that will reward people for how they shop, do laundry and even commute.
- Collaboration is critical for innovation, and there's no shortage of digital tools to help people and their companies make the connection, FMYI President and Founder Justin Yuen told attendees at...
- Gamification is a natural fit for firms looking to drive innovation in their companies. As Mario Herger explains, SAP developed its own gaming application to encourage carpooling for 15,000 employees...
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It's said that most big companies aren't capable of breakthrough innovation. Not so, Rob Shelton told attendees at the GreenBiz Innovation Forum.
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The head of sustainability at one of the world's most innovative companies kicked of the 2011 Innovation Forum with a look at how Nike tackles innovation, how its helping other companies get up to speed, and the challenges on the road ahead.
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A timelapse video displaying the "sustainability pillars" constructed in the front of the building that housed the 2011 GreenBiz Innovation Forum. The pillars, sponsored by Nike, demonstrate that company's efforts to turn plastic waste into fibers for new garments, one of Nike's many innovative initiatives.