Even more than technical expertise, it’s the ability to connect the dots that drives innovative product design, says Dan Williams, who is widely known for the work he did on mobile phones when he was Motorola’s design director. Now, as the creative director for the design and innovation firm TZ Limited, Williams has turned his […]
A version of this article appeared in the September 2006 issue of Harvard Business Review.
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