What do Lady Gaga, Jamie Oliver and Best Buy's Kal Patel have in common?
They're all on Fast Company's list of The 100 Most Creative People in Business for 2010.
Patel, president for Asia Best Buy,
appears at No. 65 on the list.
"If Best Buy were a Rorschach test, Kal Patel would see a venture-capital firm rather than a big-box electronics store. Before being named to run the Minneapolis-based retailer's Asia operations, Patel spent seven years getting the company to behave like a Silicon Valley incubator."
As a result, the company is more experimental today. The retailer lets employees try out ideas on a small scale before they require a significant investment. Examples include electric vehicle sales and its use of Twitter for customer service.
Read the entire list
here.