Using Design to Drive Innovation Phil Best, vice president of product design and innovation at LPK, is a featured author in BusinessWeek's Innovation section, reinforcing the pressing need for design companies to expand their innovation capabilities.
		Phil Best, vice president of product design and innovation at LPK, is a featured author in BusinessWeek's Innovation section. His article, "Using Design to Drive Innovation" reinforces the pressing need for design companies to expand their innovation capabilities, and eloquently describes the direction in which the design industry is headed. Best's article captures the spirit of LPK's future-forward capabilities - LPK Next - which include trends synthesis, concept and scenario development, and rapid prototyping as means of providing disruptive innovation for our clients, helping them pursue "what's next" for their brands. BusinessWeek, a global news source for business leaders, covers the latest business and economy headlines from around the world, including growth-driving trends, technology opportunities and best practices.
		About Phil Best Phil Best, Chief Operating Officer, is a true veteran of brand design. Best spent the majority of his career at Procter & Gamble. He is credited with building the global design organization at P&G and establishing design as one of P&G’s core competencies. With Best’s counsel, LPK’s Product Design and Innovation group has grown significantly with visionary focus on consumer insights, trends and structured ideation.
		About LPK LPK is an international design agency where remarkable people Build Leadership Brands. By integrating strategy, design and innovation, LPK leverages relevant consumer, shopper and market insights to create value, sustain leadership and transform businesses. The agency’s portfolio of category-leading brands and long-term client relationships attracts some of the best and brightest creative minds in the world. LPK’s combination of strategic skills, creative disciplines and cross-cultural perspectives results in brand-building innovation across media, geography and time. With a presence in North America, Europe and Asia, LPK is the world’s largest employee-owned brand design agency. LPK has developed and managed brand design franchises for some of the world’s most successful businesses, including Gillette, Pampers, Olay, 3M, Jim Beam, IBM, Hershey, Coleman, U.S. Bank, AT&T, Kellogg, Novartis, Samsung, PepsiCo, and Kraft Foods. LPK’s independent spirit champions a vibrant creative culture, recognized by The Wall Street Journal as a “Winning Workplace” and described by HOW Magazine as “one of the largest and most influential branding agencies on the planet.” Contact: www.lpk.com.