Innovating...Chicago-Style: How Local Innovators are Building the Larger Economy

Innovation has become very popular. Business and community leaders are calling for more innovative approaches to problem solving. This book is the story of the one hundred most practical innovators of the past decade. For the past ten years the Chicago Innovation Awards have celebrated the leading innovative organizations in Chicago and the greater Midwest. This book tells their stories. It describes how these companies have identified important customer wants and problems and details how they have created effective solutions to those problems and built, supported, and led their organizations to greater success and effectiveness. The companies cover the entire spectrum from established, well-recognized companies like Walgreens, Wilson Sporting Goods, and Sara Lee to newcomers like Groupon, Zorch, and PrepMe and range from construction materials (USG), to travel (Orbitz), to pharmaceuticals (Abbott), to transportation (CTA).