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All About Yves
by Linda Tischler
Fast Company
www.fastcompany.com/magazine/119/all-about-yves.html
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 (Wall Street Journal)
4 October 2007
by Ann Zimmerman
online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119145487497048330.html
An insightful description of the strategic design process with case studies on eleven companies.
by Kevin McCullagh, Design Management Review, Fall 2006
http://www.plan.bz/views/?p=54
Streamlining HP
by Bill Breen
Fast Company
www.fastcompany.com/magazine/119/streamlining-hp.html
by Katherine Bell
Article at Harvard's Conversation Starter
conversationstarter.hbsp.com/2008/04/the_mfa_is_the_new_mba_1.html
Be sure to explore all of the articles in this Special Report.
www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_31/b3945418.htm
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
OpEd By Muhammad Yunus
www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,487073,00.html
by Steve Portigal
www.portigal.com/blog/
by Alex Osterwalder
business-model-design.blogspot.com
by Ralf Beuker
www.design-management.de
by Karl Long
blog.experiencecurve.com
by Gong Szeto
gongszeto.squarespace.com
Green Biz Blog
written by Joel Makower
www.greenbiz.com
by Diego Rodriguez
metacool.typepad.com
by Mark Vanderbeeken
www.experientia.com/blog
by Jim Cornwall
forum.belmont.edu/cornwall
by Austin Govella
thinkingandmaking.com
The Which MBA? blog is a great resource about traditional MBA programs worldwide, from The Economist.
mba.eiu.com
A Natural History of the Senses
by Diane Ackerman, 1991 Vintage, ISBN 0679735666 This is a superb and beautiful reflection on human senses. It is a great beginning for considering how humans react to information differently through different senses.
A Primer of Visual Literacy by Donis A. Dondis,1973 MIT Press, ISBN 0262540290 This is a basic, insightful book about the elements of design (from the print perspective but applicable to all design, including electronic and online media). It covers basics such as typography, layout, balance, and composition.
A Whole New Mind
by Dan Pink
Accounting: What the Numbers Mean
by David Marshall, Wayne William McManus, and Daniel Viele
Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development
by Herman E. Daly
Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future
by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, and Jorgen Randers
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
by Janine M. Benyus, , 2002 Harperperennial, ISBN 0060533226
Building Corporate AccountAbility: Emerging practices in social and ethical accounting, auditing and reporting
by Simon Zadek, Peter Pruzan, and Richard Evans
Built For Use: Driving Profits Through User Experience
by Karen Donoghue and Michael D Schrage
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras
Business and Society: Stakeholders, Ethics, Public Policy
11th Edition
by Anne Lawrence, James Webber, and James Post
Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business
by John Elkington
Corporate Renaissance: Business as an Adventure in Human Development
by Ralf Österberg
Cradle to Cradle
by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, 2002 North Point Press, ISBN 0865475873
This book provides a great vision of how designers can make a substantial change in the development of products and services and their relation to the environment and the future. It has inpiring case studies but few details.
Cultural Intelligence: People Skills for Global Business
by David C Thomas and Kerr Inkson
Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose between Right and Right
by Joseph L., Jr. Badaracco
Design + Environment
by Helen Lewis, John Gertakis, Tim Grant, Nicola Morelli, and Andrew Sweatman
Design for Society
by Nigel Whiteley
Design for the Real World
by Victor Papanek
Design in Business: Strategic Innovation Through Design by Margaret Bruce and J. R. Bessant
Design Research: Applied Exploration of People, Culture, Context, and Form
Edited by Brenda Laurel
Design Yourself
by Larry Belliston
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
by Ronnie Lipton
Developing Business Strategies
Sixth edition
by David Aaker
Dictionary of Brand
by Marty Neumeier
Emotion: The Science of Sentiment
by Dylan Evans, 2002 Oxford University Press ISBN 0192853767 A short, smart overview of emotions and their role in our lives.
Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life
by Paul Ekman, Ph.D. 2003, Times Books, ISBN 0805072756
Experience Design 1: A Manifesto for the Creation of Experiences
by Nathan Shedroff
Experiences in Visual Thinking
by Robert H. McKim, PWS Engineering, Boston, MA, ISBN 0818504110
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
by Paul Hawken
How Customers Think: Essential Insights into the Mind of the Market
by Gerald Zaltman
How to Think Like a CEO
by D.A. Benton
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
by Peter Drucker
Interest and Inflation Free Money
by Margrit Kennedy
Launching New Ventures: An Entrepreneurial Approach
Third edition
by Kathleen R. Allen
Macroeconomics
by David Colander
Making Meaning: How Successful Businesses Deliver Meaningful Customer Experiences
by Steve Diller, Nathan Shedroff, and Darrel Rhea
Managing the Design Factory: A Product Developer's Toolkit
by Donald G. Reinertsen
Marketing Management
12th Edition
by Philip Kotler and Kevin Lane Keller
Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-term Fulfillment
by George Leonard
Moments of Truth
by Jan Carlzon
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins, 2000 Back Bay Books, ISBN 0316353000
Organizational Change for Corporate Sustainability
by Dunphy & Griffith
Participatory Design: Principles and Practices
by Douglas Schuler and Aki Namioka
Presence - Human Purpose and the Field of the Future
by Peter M. Senge, Joseph Jaworski, C. Otto Scharmer, and Betty Sue Flowers
Scenarios: The Art of Strategic Conversation
by Kees van der Heijden
Service Management: Strategy And Leadership In Service Businesses
by Richard Norman
Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening and Creating New Realities
by Adam Kahane and Peter M Senge
Sustainable Solutions: Developing Products and Services for the Future
Edited by Ursula Tischner and Martin Charter
Sustainable Strategic Management: Strategic Management
by W. Edward Stead, Jean Garner Stead, and Mark Starik
Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity
by Jamshid Gharajedaghi
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
by Al Ries and Jack Trout
The Age of Missing Information
by Bill Mckibben, 1992 Plume/Penguin, ISBN 0452269806 This is a very balanced, grounding book that reminds us about the role of information in our lives and what is and isn't remarkable about the "Information Age."
The Anatomy of Change: A Way to Move through Life's Transitions
by Richard Strozzi-Hecker
The Art of Innovation
by Tom Kelley
The Art of the Long View
by Peter Schwartz
The Creative Priority
by Jerry Hirshberg
The Design of Everyday Things
by Donald A. Norman, 1988 Basic Books, ISBN 0465067093
This book discusses the reasons why interface design, product design and information design are so important. There are great examples and good support for the content and meaning in design
The End of Nature
by Bill Mckibben
The Experience Economy: Work Is Theater & Every Business a Stage
by B. Joseph Pine and James H. Gilmore
The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture
by Victor Papanek
The Innovator's Dilemma
by Clayton M. Christensen
The Innovator's Solution
by Clayton M. Christensen
The Joyless Economy: The Psychology of Human Satisfaction
by Tibor Scitovsky
Oxford University Press
The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places
by Byron Reeves and Clifford Nass, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 157586052X
The One to One Future: Building Relationships One Customer at a Time
by Don Peppers and Martha Rogers
The Total Beauty of Sustainable Products
by Edwin Datschefski
Understanding Comics
by Scott McCloud, 1993 Kitchen Sink Press, ISBN 0878162453
Utopian Entrepreneur
by Brenda Laurel
Valuing the Earth: Economics, Ecology, Ethics
by Herman E. Daly and Kenneth N. Townsend
Why We Shop: The Science of Shopping
By Paco Underhill
Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century
by Alex Steffen
X-teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate and Succeed
by Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman
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
Garage.com Startup Resource
www.garage.com/resources/index.shtml
An indexed video, with slides, of one of Guy Kawasaki's famous talks on innovation.
IDSA Business Ecodesign Tools
www.idsa.org/whatsnew/sections/ecosection/tools/tools_0.htm