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About Ideation
What is ideation? ‘Ideation’ is the process of thinking and creating new ideas. It includes forming, testing, and revising imaginative concepts to explore new alternatives for conditions or problems that you might be trying to solve.
We’ve compiled a list of all the ideation apps, books and other resources to help you get from ideation to taking action.
Ideation Tools & Resources
Designed for the individual. Scaled for the enterprise.
Powering insights teams to test, analyze, and innovate rapidly.
The project management software that will actually work for your team
Collect and Organize All Your Ideas With Wrike
Accomplish more together
Your company. United.
The online whiteboard for limitless ideation
The best ideas come out of the blue
Fuel Innovation and Transform Ideas into Repeatable ROI
Collective Knowledge Management Platform
Manage projects with one tool
Smarter customer feedback management software
Online Brainstorming
Make Innovation Everybody’s Business
An innovation platform to make ideas pay
From ideation to idea validation
Books On Ideation
Serial entrepreneur Steve Glaveski has drawn on insights derived from working on the corporate innovation initiatives of large companies and interviewing thought leaders as host of the iTunes chart ranking Future Squared podcast to pen The Innovation Manager’s Handbook: Volume 2 – Float like a Corporate, Sting like a Startup. With more than 50% of […]
A new classic, cited by leaders and media around the globe as a highly recommended read for anyone interested in innovation. In The Innovator’s DNA, authors Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and bestselling author Clayton Christensen (The Innovator’s Dilemma, The Innovator’s Solution, How Will You Measure Your Life?) build on what you know about disruptive innovation […]
EcoSD network is a French association whose main objective is to encourage collaboration between academic and industrial researchers so they may create and spread advanced and multidisciplinary knowledge in the eco-design fields at national and international levels. Several actions are proposed by the EcoSD network with the support from the French Environment and Energy Management […]
To get the best answer―in business, in life―you have to ask the best possible question. Innovation expert Warren Berger shows that ability is both an art and a science. It may be the most underappreciated tool at your disposal, one you learn to use well in infancy―and then abandon as you grow older. Critical to […]
An inspiring yet practical guide for transforming limitations into opportunities A Beautiful Constraint: How to Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages And Why It’s Everyone’s Business Now is a book about everyday, practical inventiveness, designed for the constrained times in which you live. It describes how to take the kinds of issues that all of you […]
The simple exercises guide to increased creativity and innovation. Train Your Brain for Innovation is a free guide that includes simple exercises that will improve the creativity of anyone who practices them. You can also find a creativity test and some explanations on why you need to train your brain. This guide was created by […]
Ideation – ‘the formation of ideas and concepts’ According to the Oxford English Dictionary. 1 Sounds simple, doesn’t it? You all do it every day, in work and play as adults and children – throughout your lives, you are faced with challenges that demand that you formulate ideas and concepts in order to function. Some […]
Nudge meets Hooked in a practical approach to designing products and services that change behavior, from what you buy to how you work. Deciding what to create at modern companies often looks like an episode of Mad Men: people throw ideas around until one sounds sexy enough to execute and then they scale it to […]
A New York Times Bestseller A revolution is under way. In recent years, Google’s autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBM’s Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! players. Digital technologies―with hardware, software, and networks at their core―will in the near future diagnose diseases more accurately than doctors can, apply enormous […]
HOW DOES MAGIC HAPPEN? The Ogilvy advertising legend—“one of the leading minds in the world of branding” (NPR)—explores the art and science of conjuring irresistible products and ideas. “Sutherland, the legendary Vice Chairman of Ogilvy, uses his decades of experience to dissect human spending behavior in an insanely entertaining way. Alchemy combines scientific research with […]
The Innovation Code The Creative Power of Constructive Conflict Harmony is sublime in music but deadly to innovation. The only way to create new, hybrid solutions is to clash. Innovation happens when you bring people with contrasting perspectives and complementary areas of expertise together in one room. You innovate best with people who challenge you, […]
In the tradition of Phil Knight’s Shoe Dog comes the incredible untold story of how Netflix went from concept to company-all revealed by co-founder and first CEO Marc Randolph. Once upon a time, brick-and-mortar video stores were king. Late fees were ubiquitous, video-streaming unheard was of, and widespread DVD adoption seemed about as imminent as […]
In their first book, Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators, the authors provided a better model for executing disruptive innovation. They laid out a three-part plan for launching high-risk/high-reward innovation efforts: (1) borrow assets from the existing firms, (2) unlearn and unload certain processes and systems that do not serve the new entity, and (3) learn […]
This book clarifies the common misconception that there are no systematic instruments to support ideation, heuristics and creativity. Using a collection of articles from professionals practicing the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ), this book presents an overview of current trends and enhancements within TRIZ in an international context, and shows its different roles in […]
This study identifies critical success factors and important approaches that service companies can utilize in the design of products, services, and programs. It is common for service companies to have design teams that are responsible for facilitating the innovation process. However, these design teams might not benefit from a systematic training and knowledge transfer process. […]
This book melds together the two most critical elements to organizational viability: change and creativity. More than simply a how-to book or a technical tome, ‘Plus Change’ provides the working knowledge, strategies and tactics necessary to not only be more creative and more innovative, but also to implement change more effectively.‘Plus Change’ introduces the ICI […]
How to solve critical business challenges by generating more and better ideas Every organization needs a steady supply of fresh, relevant ideas, but managers can’t just lock teams in a room with a mandate to brainstorm and hope for the best. Ideation is both a science and an art, and when group ideation processes are […]
Managing Innovation is the bestselling text for graduate and undergraduate students and a classic in the field. Emphasizing practical, evidence based tools and resources, this title provides students with the knowledge base to successfully manage innovation, technology, and new product development. The holistic approach addresses the interplay between the markets, technology, and the organization, while […]