Topic: Kaiser Permanente

Kaiser Permanente's Garfield Center Combines Tech, Common Sense, Lurking Helper Robots

Want to improve nurses' efficiency? Or help patients get oriented to your hospital? Or make your surgeons less disoriented? There's an app, gizmo, or design principle for that.READ»

Suppliers Set Out to Grade Products with Sustainability Scorecards

Procter & Gamble and Kaiser Permanente set out to grade their suppliers' environmental practices with sustainability scorecards.READ»

Kaiser Permanente Launches Health Care Industry's First Sustainability Scorecard

Want to be the preferred supplier for major companies like Walmart and Kaiser Permanente? You'll have to measure up on their sustainability scorecards--the newest method of choice to weed out lackluster suppliers. We've covered ...READ»

When to Walk Away

Sometimes our interactions with others are less-than-comfortable experiences. Here's how to keep your cool--and keep the business--with someone who rubs you the wrong way.READ»

Most Innovative Companies - Health Care

From General Electric to PatientsLikeMe, our picks for the top companies in health care.READ»

Who’s Hiring? Week of 9/25/09

Who's Hiring is a weekly survey of companies showing the highest hiring activity. Not only is this valuable for job seekers, but for business analysts, corporate strategists, marketers, salespeople, investment analysts, financial advisers, and others who are interested in companies experiencing growth. Despite the recession, these companies are all expanding. READ»

Alex Bogusky's Bike-Sharing Baby, B-cycle, Launches in Denver

The country's first large-scale bike-sharing program debuts in the Mile High City.READ»

How to Run Your Brand Like a Therapist

To keep consumers coming back, companies should consider getting in touch with their feelings.READ»

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Is Business Getting Girly? Don Draper Reports

As a rule I'm a 'never-before-noon' man. But one morning recently there it was, on top of the spread of magazines laid out for me on my desk. Cover story of The Atlantic Monthly, the magazine founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson and some cronies over a few drinks at the Parker House Hotel in Boston in 1857. Four words. "The End Of Men." READ»

50 Ways to Green Your Business

Half-a-hundred options for cleaning up your business, from the universal (catch that rainwater!) to the specific (lose the plastic bowls!). Mix, match--join in.READ»

Openness, Generosity, and Accountability

Where do those attributes fit in today's bustling business world? Leaders at a recent conference learned firsthand.READ»

San Francisco's Database of Preferred Green Products Works Anywhere

The SF List of over 1,000 required or suggested products is intended primarily to assist city staff, but it's also a helpful tool for anyone seeking unbiased information about green products.READ»

The View From 2020: A Datasnap From the Near Future

Graham Button takes a break from his Microsoft U studies at a rented media pod on the beach in Zanzibar to file a post ten years from now.READ»

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“Daddy, What’s a Brand?” and 9 More Awkward Questions for Uncertain Times

In uncertain times like these, let's get back to basics, shall we? Graham Button investigates 10 questions we all should be asking ourselves.READ»

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10 Taglines to Help U.S. Companies Compete in a Post-American World

When a company makes a brand promise in a tagline, it's committing to a relationship. Here are ten taglines in search of new American mates willing to help take back the 21st century.READ»

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60 Years Later, Everyone's Still Loving the AK-47

The iconic machine gun turns 60 this year, and remains one of the most effective tools ever designed. Graham Button heads to his local gun show to find out why something that kills people is so revered.READ»

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Online, We're the Sales Leads and the Cookies are the Closers

My son plays some pretty obscure online games. You have to leave the beaten track to find them. About six months ago he was playing one in my dungeon office at home, where I was using hypnosis to coax ideas out of a blank piece of ...READ»

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Designed Experiences: The Evolution of Intelligent Design

Established brands are an evolution, constantly adapting. Designed brands are born adapted.READ»

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Ideo's David Kelley on "Design Thinking"

David Kelley, founder of the design firm Ideo and the Stanford d.school, was leading a charmed existence. Then he felt a lump.READ»

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The Ultimate Design Language? Words.

The more user-centered design is, the better. And no medium is more user-centered than the written word.READ»

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If the Spirit Moves You ...

What happens when execs from big-name companies go to a conference with a Nigerian drummer and a ceremonial leader named Brooke Medicine Eagle? Lots of soul-searching -- and a few unfortunate missteps.READ»

The Web Can Make You a Star!

Meet four businesspeople who've made the Net their stage - and learn how they traveled down the road to fame. Then get online with your own show.READ»

How to Design the Internet Experience Without Becoming the Advertisers' Bitch

New web ventures need income. But if you’re going to be 2.0, then you can’t be the advertisers’ bitch. Everyone’s so very tired of that uninvited guest, the corporation. READ»

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Designing the Perfect Health Care Clinic

At Kaiser Permanente's Garfield Center, Hollywood-style sets help planners create a patient-friendly blueprint for the future of health care.READ»

Feedback

Changes Thirty-six months, predicts Terminator director McG: By then, any content you want will be available on your choice of screens, from the one in your pocket to the 100-foot-long version at your local multiplex. That was one ...READ»

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