Moving Ideas from ‘Fuzzy’ to ‘Fruition’ at Gap

Dean of Global Innovation Michael Perman explains how Gap Inc. has trained about 250 employees to be innovators, through a program called Mindspark…

By Scott Kirsner · December 9, 2013 · 1 min read

Highlights Perman’s mission: Move more ideas from “fuzzy” to “fruition.” At Gap, Perman estimates that innovation is a job for about 300 people. “I don’t believe that innovation is everyone’s job, because not everyone is built that way — anymore than everyone should be an…

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