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DesignThinkingDallas

This is the recommended reading list for Design Thinking 2007 -- October. 19, 2007. Join us: http://designthinkingexec.backpackit.com/pub/1239101
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  • Informal Coalitions: Mastering the Hidden Dynamics of Organizational Change
    • Rated 5 stars

    Chris is a voice to keep track of. He has applied a lot of thought to many observations and has synthesized them in this book. He adds a particularly critical dimension to problem solving that explains why collaboration and community are such relevant driving forces right now and by association the significance of all things 2.0.

    DesignThinkingDallas wrote this review Thursday, November 8 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Myths of Innovation
    • Rated 5 stars

    It's been touted as an easy read. That depends on your definition. There is so much 'meat' here, that I find it generates so many thoughts it takes hours to get through a few pages.[br/][br/]It's one of those books that if you already understand a lot of this stuff, it will inspire you to either frame loose thoughts in new ways or reframe the way you thought about it before.

    DesignThinkingDallas wrote this review Thursday, November 8 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Project 50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every "Task" into a Project That Matters!
    • Rated 5 stars

    Use for inspiration. Open it up and see how you can leverage any given recommendation at any given moment in time (particularly on those 'grim' days).

    DesignThinkingDallas wrote this review Tuesday, October 23 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Design (Tom Peters Essentials)
    • Rated 5 stars

    Small, concise: buy and share copies with others.

    Peters powerfully illustrates the 'reality' that others are missing: "...there is a New Economy" {be mindful, "an economy", "the economy", and "economics" are all very different, yet related subjects -- if you don't know the difference, cough up the dollars and buy "The Economic Way of Thinking" -- particularly the 11th edition to read how the book will continue to be published and carry the name of its author who has died...PhDs insist they didn't really 'understand' economics until they read this book}

    "A workplace revolution is under way. No sensible person expects to spend a lifetime in a single corporation anymore. Some call this the 'end of corporate responsiblity.' I call it ...the Beginning of Renewed Individual Responsiblity. An extraordinary opportunity to take charge of our own lives."

    If you can't make the connection between this and design -- you don't really understand design.

    DesignThinkingDallas wrote this review Thursday, October 18 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Innovator's Dilemma
    • Rated 5 stars

    This book is a must read book for understanding how traditional market research is broken. The analysis of how disruptive technologies get introduced and gain market share should make managers re-think their corporate processes. This is the book that introduces the term "disruptive innovation" to strategic thinking. COnsider it a must read for your bookshelf.

    DesignThinkingDallas wrote this review Thursday, October 18 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Innovator's Solution
    • Rated 4 stars

    The Innovator's Solution is a companion book to the Innovator's Dilemma. In this book, Clay Christensen explains how managers at companies need to build their team and organizations to compete in the modern business world. the bok provides several different strategies for solving problems. Of particular, interest would be sections on adaptability, disruptive innovation, and real worl stories.

    DesignThinkingDallas wrote this review Thursday, October 18 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Don't Make Me Think
    • Rated 0 stars

    While the book does deal with specific methods of usability testing, it also provides some great insight into the way businesses think to day and how to respond to traditional scenarios that haven't adjusted to the changing dynamics and realities of a world with immediate responses to products and few barriers to entry in vitual marketplaces.

    DesignThinkingDallas wrote this review Wednesday, October 17 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Ten Faces of Innovation
    • Rated 0 stars

    Tom Kelley, co-founder of IDEO shares perspectives on how they engage in design thinking.

    DesignThinkingDallas wrote this review Wednesday, October 17 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World
    • Rated 0 stars

    This is a classic to understand the fundamentals of nature, and just how significant of a role the inherent design elements of nature play. Available online, you'll pay more printing the darned thing yourself than buying the book and you'll want your own copy to mark up.

    Inherent to the story is the significance of networks:
    "Hidden in the Net is the bystery of the Invisible Hand -- control without authority...A net work nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often.

    A distributed, decentralized network is mor a process than a thing. In the logic of the Net there is a shift from nouns to verbs. Economists now reckon that commercial products are best treated as though they were services. It's not what you sell a customer, its what you do for them. It's not what something is, it's what it is connected to, what it does. Flows become more important than resources. Behavior counts."

    Now consider the original publish date: 1994

    DesignThinkingDallas wrote this review Wednesday, October 17 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Design Way: Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World : Foundations and Fundamentals of Design Competence
    • Rated 0 stars

    Still trying to get the darned book...but the author has brilliant insights about Design Thinking: "Our book approaches design as a form of leadership from two assertions. The first is the belief that good designers (when not acting as applied scientists or artists) are leaders by definition. They play an essential instrumental leadership role in any change project. The second is that good leaders, including entrepreneurs, act as designers even if they do not identify themselves as such or are not identified by others as designers. They do not define their work in the language of design because they have not been brought up in that tradition, but their intentions are nevertheless realized through designerly behavior." I was most impressed by his path to 'now', which included education at the feet of Christopher Alexander -- but that was not who influenced him the most. Source: http://nextd.org/02/04/03/index.html

    DesignThinkingDallas wrote this review Wednesday, October 17 2007. ( reply | permalink )
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