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...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...
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...
...annual disney shareholders' meeting last week in Minneapolis, Minn., the hefty document that attendees were most eager to get their hands on was not an annual report. It was James B. Stewart's DisneyWar (Simon & Schuster; 572 pages), which chronicles how CEO Michael Eisner--who announced last year that he would step down in 2006--turned their pop-culture institution into a Tragic Kingdom...
...Saint Paul, Minn. and Lowell House...
...Paul, Minn...