Smart World: Breakthrough Creativity and the New Science of Ideas by Richard Ogle and The Medici Effect: What Elephants & Epidemics Can Teach Us about Innovation by Frans Johansson

As Ruediger Klein leads off in this group of reviews, Innovation is everywhere—or so it seems. Most of these reviews center on idea generation and processing. It will be interesting to see if—as Klein forecasts—this is indeed the decade of innovation and creativity.
In the next issue, we will try to be more balanced—or we may get even more creative!
Books reviewed in this issue:

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  Smart World: Breakthrough Creativity and the New Science of Ideas
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  The Medici Effect: What Elephants & Epidemics Can Teach Us about Innovation
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  Getting to Innovation: How Asking the Right Questions Generates the Great Ideas Your Company Needs
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  Hidden in Plain Sight
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  Human Factors in Project Management
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  The Fast Path to Corporate Growth: Leveraging Knowledge and Technologies to New Market Applications

     

Going Lean: How the Best Companies Apply Lean Manufacturing Principles to Shatter Uncertainty, Drive Innovation, and Maximize Profits by Stephen A. Ruffa

Books reviewed in this issue:

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  Going Lean: How the Best Companies Apply Lean Manufacturing Principles to Shatter Uncertainty, Drive Innovation, and Maximize Profits
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  Ready, Set, Dominate: Implement Toyota's Set-Based Learning for Developing Products and Nobody Can Catch You!
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  Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovations

     

Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want by Curtis R. Carlson and William W. Wilmot

Books reviewed in this issue:

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  Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want