Innovation Resources

These are things that we have found useful in our innovation workshops and training courses. In any event, they are just downright interesting. 

• Masters in Innovation, Creativity and Leadership is a new course given by City University, London.This course offers an opportunity to study Innovation, Creativity and Leadership from a fully rounded, interdisciplinary perspective, learning from international leaders in each of the disciplines.  
• IDEO This is the legendary industrial design and consultancy company. Their designs are innovative and downright clever. Tom Kelley of IDEO wrote The Art of Innovation, recommended reading.
• One of IEEE Software's top picks Provoking Creativity: Imagine What Your Requirements Could be Like by Neil Maiden, Suzanne Robertson and Alexis Gizikis. PDF download.
• Fast Company magazine has many articles about innovative companies and their innovations.
• Wired magazine is another that presents innovations, products and interesting stories. Most of the magazine will be of interest to people who are attracted to innovation. There is now a UK edition.
• MIT media lab is always a hotbed of innovation.
• Business Week has an innovation page worth following.
• 5 Questions That Kill Innovation: A How-to Guide.
• Rob Austin combines his extensive knowledge of theater for many practical business purposes. Why managing innovation is like theatre.
• More innovation than you can read at Alltop. 
• Roger von Oech’s Creative Think site. Roger’s blog is worth reading. We make use of von Oech's roles of innovation - Explorer, Artist, Evaluator and Warrior. 
• Understanding the Process of Innovation by Loren Gray. A Harvard Business School Working Knowledge paper.
• How innovative is your city? McKinsey Digital has released a new innovation study of the world's leading cities, grouping them into one of four different categories -- "hot springs," "dynamic oceans," "silent lakes," and "shrinking pools."
• Lessons not Learned About Innovation. Q&A with Rosabeth Moss Kanter.     
• Check the design innovations from BMW USA.
• Einstein’s Secret to Amazing Problem Solving (and 10 Specific Ways You Can Use It)
• David Pogue writes pretty technology reviews for the New York Times. These are interesting from the point of view of innovation. The ever-alliterative David also writes Pogue's Pages.
• Node magazine contains several William Gibson articles.
• The back of the napkin. This is interesting for people who should be drawing. That is you. Yes, you. Don't look away! Click now. 
• Graphics Made Easy. I like these people's approach. It is for people who think they cannot draw.