Queens Of Innovation

Business Week carries an interesting section this week called Inside Innovation and names 25 leaders who are bringing innovation to their companies. Five of them are profiled:

• Marissa Mayer – Google’s sergeant major of ideas. Delving down from within the organization and heaving them to the top in ten minutes or less.
• Ivy Ross – Electifies the team at Old Navy with ideas and experience from the real world. Also reads PSFK(!)
• Claudia Kotchka - Not too sure what she really did at P&G as her profile was rather ambiguous. Probably breaks down walls between departments, then pokes her head through the gap and shouts, “How shall we kill Method today?”
• Sam Lucente – Gets close to HP consumers through ethnography then translates coinsumer needs not in design-speak but in business requirements.
• Amy Radin – Driving innovative Citigroup products by concentrating on a small group of great ideas.

Business Week