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...Geek Squad is one part of that effort. Best Buy bought the business--an independent computer-support firm based in Minneapolis, Minn.--from its founder, Robert Stephens, in 2002, after working with Geek behind the scenes for two years. Today there are 7,500 agents spread across all 668 of Best Buy's U.S. stores, led by "chief inspector" Stephens. So-called counterintelligence agents work inside the stores to help befuddled shoppers select their wares, while badge-toting double agents like Tavadia make house calls in branded, black-and-white Volkswagen Beetles. "I'm trying to build an army," Stephens...
...impressed is Porter that he's retaining Ideo's services again for the design of a new hospital. In fact, Ideo is developing something of an expertise in medical reform, also working with clients like the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., to create mini-Ideos--permanent design-research facilities that work like prototype factories within the organizations. The Mayo facility has already created one Ideo-like product: a check-in kiosk based on those e-ticket machines at airports so that Mayo patients don't have to wait in line just to sign...
...Infinite Spirits, who, together with co-founders Mark Bozzini and master distiller Pat Couteaux, spent two years researching and experimenting with ingredients before introducing the $30-a-bottle vodka in 2003. Distilled in a six-column continuous still in the retrofitted Chippewa Valley Ethanol Co. in Benson, Minn.--using wheat and rye grown by nearby farmers--Shakers' four flavors of vodka racked up about $4 million in sales in 17 states in 2004. Now the brand is going national. "It's a real cracker of a spirit," says F. Paul Pacult, editor of the Spirit Journal, a trade newsletter...
Forty-five Girl Scouts in Rochester, Minn., spent last Thursday evening solving a crime. Although their three-hour foray into forensics was a bit sugar-coated--the girls, ages 9 to 15, were given cocoa powder to dust for fingerprints and chocolate bars to study teeth imprints--there was also a heavy dose of science and math. The troops measured the "culprit's" footprints to extrapolate how tall he or she might be and used deductive reasoning to eliminate suspects from further investigation. The workshop, organized by IBM for the fifth annual Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, emphasized another...