Inspiration:
Aha! : 10 Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit and Find Your Great Ideas
by Jordan E. Ayan
Jump Start Your Brain
by Doug Hall
Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Conceptual Blockbusting
by James Adams
Lateral Thinking
by Edward De Bono
The Inventor's Notebook
by Fred Grissom & David Pressman
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired
by Nature by Janine Benyus
Cats Paws and Catapults
by Steven Vogel
The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention
by David Noble
Weird Ideas that Work
by Robert Sutton
Corporate Creativity: How Innovation and Improvement Actually Happen
by Alan Robinson
The Art of Innovation - Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm
by Tom Kelley
'Great stories behing IDEO's innovative approch to problem solving'
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Creating Breakthrough Products: Innovation from Product Planning to Program Approval
by Jonathan Cagan
The Discoverers : A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
by Daniel J. Boorstin
Creating Breakthrough Products: Innovation from Product Planning to Program Approval
by Jonathan Cagan, Craig M. Vogel
Publisher: Financial Times Prentice Hall; 1st edition (January 15, 2002)
'identify the key factors associated with successful products - a revolutionary approach to building tomorrow's great products.
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Creating Breakthrough Ideas: The Collaboration of Anthropologists and
Designers in the Product Development Industry
by Susan Squires (Editor), Bryan Byrne (Editor)
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey, 2002
'Brings out the importance of ethnographic research for product design'
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