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Articles
All About Yves (Fast Company)
All About Yves
by Linda Tischler
Fast Company
www.fastcompany.com/magazine/119/all-about-yves.html
Boosting Productivity, Innovation, and Growth through a National Innovation Foundation
Boosting Productivity, Innovation, and Growth through a National Innovation Foundation
A Brookings Institute report describing the US's innovation challenge. Be sure to download the full PDF report.
Design Intervention (Fast Company)
Design Intervention
At Philips, a place long known for big ideas and small numbers, can there be too much of a good thing?
by Jennifer Reingold
Fast Company
www.fastcompany.com/magazine/109/open_design-intervention.html
Designs on a New Market Niche (WSJ)
Designs on a New Market Niche (Wall Street Journal)
4 October 2007
by Ann Zimmerman
online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119145487497048330.html
Innovating Through Recession
This article, by Andrew Rozeghi, is a great discussion of why recessions represent great opportunities for companies, particularly if they separate costs by innovative value. You can read it online or download it from here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/7450921/Innovating-Through-Recession-Andrew-Razeghi-Kellogg-School-of-Management
Managing Design (Design Council)
An insightful description of the strategic design process with case studies on eleven companies.
P&G Changes Its Game (BusinessWeek)
P&G Changes Its Game This article describes how Proctor & Gamble is using design thinking to innovate and change its culture.
Strategy for the Real World
by Kevin McCullagh, Design Management Review, Fall 2006
http://www.plan.bz/views/?p=54
Streamlining HP (Fast Company)
Streamlining HP
by Bill Breen
Fast Company
www.fastcompany.com/magazine/119/streamlining-hp.html
The MFA is the new MBA
by Katherine Bell
Article at Harvard's Conversation Starter
conversationstarter.hbsp.com/2008/04/the_mfa_is_the_new_mba_1.html
Tomorrow's B-School? It Might Be A D-School (BusinessWeek)
Be sure to explore all of the articles in this Special Report.
www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_31/b3945418.htm
Tough Love (Fast Company)
Tough Love
Business wants to love design, but it's often an awkward romance.
by Roger Martin
Fast Company
www.fastcompany.com/magazine/109/open_design-tough-love.html
We Can Create a Poverty-Free World
OpEd By Muhammad Yunus
www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,487073,00.html
Blogs
All This ChittahChattah
by Steve Portigal
www.portigal.com/blog/
Business Model Design and Innovation
by Alex Osterwalder
business-model-design.blogspot.com
Collaborative Innovation Program (RIT)
Collaborative Innovation Program
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
collaboritorium.net
This is an innovation center that supplements the business and engineering programs with courses in design thinking.
Design leads us where exactly?
Blog by Lucy Kimbell, a Fellow in Design Leadership at Saïd Business School, University of Oxfordwww.designleadership.blogspot.com
Design Management
by Ralf Beuker
www.design-management.de
ExperienceCurve
by Karl Long
blog.experiencecurve.com
Gong Szeto's Blog
by Gong Szeto
gongszeto.squarespace.com
Green Biz
Green Biz Blog
written by Joel Makower
www.greenbiz.com
Metacool
by Diego Rodriguez
metacool.typepad.com
Putting People First (Experientia)
by Mark Vanderbeeken
www.experientia.com/blog
The Entrepreneurial Mind
by Jim Cornwall
forum.belmont.edu/cornwall
Thinking and Making
by Austin Govella
thinkingandmaking.com
Triple Pundit
by Nick Aster
www.triplepundit.com
Which MBA? (Economist)
The Which MBA? blog is a great resource about traditional MBA programs worldwide, from The Economist.
mba.eiu.com
Books
A Natural History of the Senses
A Natural History of the Senses
by Diane Ackerman
A Primer of Visual Literacy
A Primer of Visual Literacy
by Donis A. Dondis
A Whole New Mind
A Whole New Mind
by Dan Pink
Accounting: What the Numbers Mean
Accounting: What the Numbers Mean
by David Marshall, Wayne William McManus, and Daniel Viele
Beyond Growth
Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development
by Herman E. Daly
Beyond the Limits
Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future
by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, and Jorgen Randers
Biomimicry
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
by Janine M. Benyus
Building Corporate AccountAbility
Building Corporate AccountAbility: Emerging practices in social and ethical accounting, auditing and reporting
by Simon Zadek, Peter Pruzan, and Richard Evans
Built For Use
Built For Use: Driving Profits Through User Experience
by Karen Donoghue and Michael D Schrage
Built to Last
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras
Business and Society: Stakeholders, Ethics, Public Policy
Business and Society: Stakeholders, Ethics, Public Policy
11th Edition
by Anne Lawrence, James Webber, and James Post
Cannibals with Forks
Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business
by John Elkington
Conscious Business
Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values
by Fred Kofman ISBN: 978-1591795179
by Fred Kofman ISBN: 978-1591795179
Corporate Renaissance
Corporate Renaissance: Business as an Adventure in Human Development
by Ralf Österberg
Cradle to Cradle
Cradle to Cradle
by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
Cultural Intelligence
Cultural Intelligence: People Skills for Global Business
by David C Thomas and Kerr Inkson
Defining Moments
Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose between Right and Right
by Joseph L., Jr. Badaracco
Design + Environment
Design + Environment
by Helen Lewis, John Gertakis, Tim Grant, Nicola Morelli, and Andrew Sweatman
Design for Society
Design for Society
by Nigel Whiteley
Design for the Real World
Design for the Real World
by Victor Papanek
Design in Business
Design in Business: Strategic Innovation Through Design
by Margaret Bruce and J. R. Bessant
Design Research
Design Research: Applied Exploration of People, Culture, Context, and Form
Edited by Brenda Laurel
Design Yourself
Design Yourself
by Larry Belliston
Design: A Very Short Introduction
Design: A Very Short Introduction
by John Heskett
Don't let this book's title fool you. Though it's short, it's incredibly concise and thorough. It describes design across disciplines and in strategic terms.
Designing Across Cultures
Designing Across Cultures
by Ronnie Lipton
Developing Business Strategies
Developing Business Strategies
Sixth edition
by David Aaker
Dictionary of Brand
Dictionary of Brand
by Marty Neumeier
Emotion
Emotion: The Science of Sentiment
by Dylan Evans
Envisioning Information
Envisioning Information
by Edward Tufte
Experience Design 1
Experience Design 1: A Manifesto for the Creation of Experiences
by Nathan Shedroff
Experiences in Visual Thinking
Experiences in Visual Thinking
by Robert H. McKim
Free Lunch
Free lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)
by David Cay Johnson
This is probably the most important book written in the last 30 years on the American economy. It should be required reading for anyone interested in the health of the economy, the free market, or the relation of business to government, regardless of political perspective.
Growing a Business
Growing a Business
by Paul Hawken
How Customers Think
How Customers Think: Essential Insights into the Mind of the Market
by Gerald Zaltman
How to Think Like a CEO
How to Think Like a CEO
by D.A. Benton
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
by Peter Drucker
Interest and Inflation Free Money
Interest and Inflation Free Money
by Margrit Kennedy
Launching New Ventures
Launching New Ventures: An Entrepreneurial Approach
Third edition
by Kathleen R. Allen
Macroeconomics
Macroeconomics
by David Colander
Making Meaning
Making Meaning: How Successful Businesses Deliver Meaningful Customer Experiences
by Steve Diller, Nathan Shedroff, and Darrel Rhea
Managing the Design Factory
Managing the Design Factory: A Product Developer’s Toolkit
by Donald G. Reinertsen
Marketing Management
Marketing Management
12th Edition
by Philip Kotler and Kevin Lane Keller
Mastery
Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-term Fulfillment
by George Leonard
Moments of Truth
Moments of Truth
by Jan Carlzon
Natural Capitalism
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins
No One Works Here
No One Works Here
by Idris Mootee
by Idris Mootee
Organizational Change for Corporate Sustainability
Organizational Change for Corporate Sustainability
by Dunphy & Griffith
Participatory Design
Participatory Design: Principles and Practices
by Douglas Schuler and Aki Namioka
Plan B 3.0
Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, Third Edition
by Lester R. Brown
Predictably Irrational
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Opinions Dan Areily, 2008, Harper Collins, ISBN: 006135323X
This is a fascinating look into the psychological forces at work when people make decisions and set expectations and explains how these differ widely from the rational and simplistic view that traditional economics takes.
Presence
Presence – Human Purpose and the Field of the Future
by Peter M. Senge, Joseph Jaworski, C. Otto Scharmer, and Betty Sue Flowers
Prophet of Innovation
Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction
by Thomas K. McCraw
by Thomas K. McCraw
Scenarios
Scenarios: The Art of Strategic Conversation
by Kees van der Heijden
Service Management
Service Management: Strategy And Leadership In Service Businesses
by Richard Norman
Silent Spring
Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
Solving Tough Problems
Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening and Creating New Realities
by Adam Kahane and Peter M Senge
Strategy for Sustainability
Strategy for Sustainability:A Business Manifesto
by Adam Werbach
Harvard Business Press
Sustainable Solutions
Sustainable Solutions: Developing Products and Services for the Future
Edited by Ursula Tischner and Martin Charter
Sustainable Strategic Management
Sustainable Strategic Management: Strategic Management
by W. Edward Stead, Jean Garner Stead, and Mark Starik
Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity
Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity
by Jamshid Gharajedaghi
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
by Al Ries and Jack Trout
The Age of Missing Information
The Age of Missing Information
by Bill Mckibben
The Anatomy of Change
The Anatomy of Change: A Way to Move through Life's Transitions
by Richard Strozzi-Hecker
The Art of Innovation
The Art of Innovation
by Tom Kelley
The Art of the Long View
The Art of the Long View
by Peter Schwartz
The Catalyst
The Catalyst: How You Can Become an Extraordinary Growth Leader
By Jeanne Liedtke, Robert Rosen, Robert Wiltbank
This new book from Jeanne Liedtke, a professor at Darden (and her co-authors), is really smart and insightful. It lays-out the attributes of successful innovators, through case studies, as well as ways managers and leaders can improve their own functioning.
The Creative Priority
The Creative Priority
by Jerry Hirshberg
The Design of Everyday Things
The Design of Everyday Things
by Donald A. Norman
The End of Nature
The End of Nature
by Bill Mckibben
The Experience Economy
The Experience Economy: Work Is Theater & Every Business a Stage
by B. Joseph Pine and James H. Gilmore
The Green Imperative
The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture
by Victor Papanek
The Innovator’s Dilemma
The Innovator’s Dilemma
by Clayton M. Christensen
The Innovator’s Solution
The Innovator’s Solution
by Clayton M. Christensen
The Joyless Economy: The Psychology of Human Satisfaction
The Joyless Economy: The Psychology of Human Satisfaction
by Tibor Scitovsky
Oxford University Press
The Media Equation
The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places
by Byron Reeves and Clifford Nass
The One to One Future
The One to One Future: Building Relationships One Customer at a Time
by Don Peppers and Martha Rogers
The Total Beauty of Sustainable Products
The Total Beauty of Sustainable Products
by Edwin Datschefski
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
by Edward Tufte
Understanding Comics
Understanding Comics
by Scott McCloud
Utopian Entrepreneur
Utopian Entrepreneur
by Brenda Laurel
Valuing the Earth
Valuing the Earth: Economics, Ecology, Ethics
by Herman E. Daly and Kenneth N. Townsend
Why We Buy
Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping
By Paco Underhill
Worldchanging
Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century
by Alex Steffen
X-teams
X-teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate and Succeed
by Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman
You Are What You Say
You Are What You Say: The Proven Program that Uses the Power of Language to Combat Stress, Anger, and Depression
by Matthew Budd and Larry Rothstein
Journals
Magazines
Resources
Garage.com Startup Resources
Garage.com Startup Resource
www.garage.com/resources/index.shtml
Guy Kawasaki's Presentation on Innovation
An indexed video, with slides, of one of Guy Kawasaki's famous talks on innovation.
IDSA Business Ecodesign Tools
IDSA Business Ecodesign Tools
www.idsa.org/whatsnew/sections/ecosection/tools/tools_0.htm
The Dictionary of Sustainable Management
www.sustainabilitydictionary.com
The Dictionary of Sustainable Management is an open dictionary for business leaders and students of sustainability and business-related terms. It is a project of the Presidio School of Management. The purpose of this effort is to help people better understand how sustainability concepts are creating new understandings in the worlds of business, government, and society.
The Story of Stuff
This is a great explanation of why sustainability is important. In 15 short minutes, it gives a great overview of the materials stream and the people, political, and health issues around it. It covers consumerism, the environment, toxic materials, politics, and labor, all in the context of economics without being strident or full or jargon.