The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO’s Strategies for Defeating the Devil’s Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization

Tom Kelley and David Kelley on the Care and Feeding of an Innovation Team

August 26, 2013

In Tom Kelley and David Kelley’s book, Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All (to be published by Crown Business, October 2013), they offer some excellent advice on the “care and feeding of an innovation team.” Here is…

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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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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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The Ten Faces of Innovation: A book review by Bob Morris

June 20, 2011

The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO’s Strategies for Defeating the Devil’s Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization Thomas Kelley with Jonathan Littman Doubleday (2005) I recently re-read two books written by Tom Kelley with Jonathan Littman, this one and…

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