Jonathan Littman

Jonathan Littman and Susanna Camp on high-impact entrepreneurship: An interview by Bob Morris

October 25, 2020

Jonathan Littman collaborated with IDEO on the bestsellers The Art of Innovation and The Ten Faces of Innovation (more than 650,000 copies sold worldwide in 12 languages). The author of ten books, five of his works have been optioned for…

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Here Are the Essential Steps to Complete in Design Thinking

September 30, 2014

I have just read and will soon review The Reciprocity Advantage: A New Way to Partner for Innovation and Growth, co-authored by Bob Johansen and Karl Ronn, published by Berrett-Koehler (September 2015), Some of the most valuable material is provided…

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Tom Kelley and David Kelley on the Core Principles of Design-Driven Innovation

August 20, 2013

I have just read Tom Kelley and David Kelley’s book, Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All, that will soon be published by Crown Business (October 2013). With regard to the title of their book, “At its core,…

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Unrelenting Innovation: A book review by Bob Morris

February 9, 2013

Unrelenting Innovation: How to Build a Culture for Market Dominance Gerard J. Tellis Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2013) How to avoid or overcome “the incumbent’s curse” to achieve market dominance By nature, books about innovation should contribute something new and/or something…

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The Architecture of Innovation: A book review by Bob Morris

February 5, 2013

The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations Josh Lerner Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How to combine two traditional models for innovation “within a powerful system that consistently and efficiently produces new ideas” By nature, books about innovation…

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10 TED Talks About Being [More] Creative

November 21, 2012

This week TED published a playlist called 10 Talks About the Beauty—and Difficulty—of Being Creative. Included in the playlist: David Kelley’s 2012 TED talk, “How To Build Your Creative Confidence,” and Tim Brown’s 2008 talk, “Tales of Creativity and Play.”…

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Collective, Collaborative Innovation: Do’s and Don’ts

August 25, 2012

According to Frans Johansson, “When you step into an intersection of fields, disciplines, or cultures, you can combine existing concepts into a large number of extraordinary new ideas. The name I have give this phenomenon, the Medici Effect, comes from a remarkable burst of creativity in fifteenth-century Italy.”…

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Christine Fruechte (Colle + McVoy) in “The Corner Office”

January 8, 2012

Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Christine Fruechte, president and chief…

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Thomas Kelley: An interview by Bob Morris

June 28, 2011

Kelley is general manager of IDEO, the widely admired design and development firm that brought us the Apple mouse, Polaroid’s I-Zone instant camera, the Palm V, and hundreds of other cutting edge products and services. He’s also written two outstanding…

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The Art of Innovation: A book review by Bob Morris

June 20, 2011

The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America’s Leading Design Firm Tom Kelley with Jonathan Littman Crown Business (2001) I recently re-read two books written by Tom Kelley with Jonathan Littman, this one and The Ten Faces of…

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