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  • 1.  course on innovation and creativity

    Posted 08-31-2007 16:36

    Hi All: Am looking for recommendations for text books that can be used to support a creativity and innovation course for MBA students. I am also looking for simulations and assignments that can be used in that course. I'd really appreciate any suggestions...please send them to me at vikas@walton.uark.edu and I will be happy to post a summary of all responses.

     

     

    Vikas Anand

    Associate Professor of Management

    Sam M. Walton College of Business

    University of Arkansas

    Fayetteville, AR 72701

    Phone: 479-575-6232, Fax: 479-575-3241

    http://waltoncollege.uark.edu/faculty/search.asp?type=profile&id=145000&group=MGMT

     



  • 2.  course on innovation and creativity

    Posted 08-31-2007 17:43

    Vikas,

     

    One of my favorites can be found on the website http://www.goinnovate.com/_f6.html. The author was the inventor of the Personal Resource System, the predecessor of the Day-Timer and Day Planner.

     

    The book is NOT an academic text but a practical guide and would be a great complimentary text. The author's thoughts and methods are based on 20 years of research in the innovation area, and are the best and most practical that I have seen.  

     

    Warm regards,

     

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    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.pace.edu] On Behalf Of Anand, Vikas
    Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 1:36 PM
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    Subject: course on innovation and creativity

     

    Hi All: Am looking for recommendations for text books that can be used to support a creativity and innovation course for MBA students. I am also looking for simulations and assignments that can be used in that course. I'd really appreciate any suggestions...please send them to me at vikas@walton.uark.edu and I will be happy to post a summary of all responses.

     

     

    Vikas Anand

    Associate Professor of Management

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  • 3.  course on innovation and creativity

    Posted 09-02-2007 20:45
    One book that is I found very effective is "A WHACK ON THE SIDE OF THE HEAD: How You Can Be More Creative" by Roger von Oech. It is written in an interesting manner and has several activities that can be suitably customized to a classroom, both academic and workplace.

    Best wishes,

    Viraj Varma


    *********************************************
    Doctoral Student, Management
    Organizational Studies, Strategy, & Change Program,
    College of Business
    Office: 239, Lowder Business Building
    Auburn University
    Auburn, AL  36849
    Phone: (334) 844-6524
    E-mail: varmavi@auburn.edu


  • 4.  course on innovation and creativity

    Posted 09-03-2007 21:41

    Here are several:

    A Whack on the Side of the Head, yes, and his A Kick in the Seat of the Pants

    Chic Thompson:  What a Great Idea

    Gelb:  How to think like Leonardo Davinci, Discovering Your Genius

    DeGraff and Lawrence:  Creativity at Work

    DeBono:  Seven Hats of Creativity

    Marcia Conner:  Learning to Learn

    Michael Ray:

    Brian Hindo, "3M's Innovation Crisis: How Six Sigma Almost Smothered its Idea Culture," Business Week, June 11, 2007, cover article.

     

    For starters ....

     

    Cheers,

     

       Jim

    James G. Clawson

    E. Thayer Bigelow Professor of Business Administration

    Box 6550

    Darden Graduate School of Business Administration

    Charlottesville, VA 22906

    Tel:  434 924 7488

    Web: http://faculty.darden.virginia.edu/clawsonj

     

    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.pace.edu] On Behalf Of Viraj Varma
    Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 8:45 PM
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.pace.edu
    Subject: Re: course on innovation and creativity

     

    One book that is I found very effective is "A WHACK ON THE SIDE OF THE HEAD: How You Can Be More Creative" by Roger von Oech. It is written in an interesting manner and has several activities that can be suitably customized to a classroom, both academic and workplace.

    Best wishes,

    Viraj Varma


    *********************************************
    Doctoral Student, Management
    Organizational Studies, Strategy, & Change Program,
    College of Business
    Office: 239, Lowder Business Building
    Auburn University
    Auburn, AL  36849
    Phone: (334) 844-6524
    E-mail: varmavi@auburn.edu



  • 5.  course on innovation and creativity

    Posted 09-04-2007 01:38
    Dear Vikas,
     
    I can share with you the material I put together to run a 25 session course on "Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship" for a Defence Service Officers’ Management Programme at IIM Bangalore (May-June 2007). Please note that the course itself was oriented towards giving a feel to these service officers for intra- and entre-preneurial venturing, as they were soon to retire or leave service on completion of their contractual obligations. You will therefore note that I have made extensive use of case studies involving ex-servicemen’s ventures from the Indian context. I was also luckily able to organize a number of useful panel discussions wherein both industry professionals and ex-servicemen entrepreneurs discussed their learning in floating new ventures and about the opening opportunities in the market environment.
     
    My experience was that it is a little ambitious to try and include important dimensions of entrepreneurship as well into such a course. Ideally I would like to divide this into two separate courses, dealing with “Creativity and Innovation in the Market Environment” and “Entrepreneurial Venturing”, with somewhat of a natural overlap that cannot possibly be avoided.
     
    All the best,
    <st1:place w:st="on">Ravi Bangari</st1:place>
    <st1:place w:st="on">Fellow of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore</st1:place>
    India
     
    Books:
     
    Peter Drucker, “Innovation & Entrepreneurship: Practice and principles”, 1986/1991.
    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, "Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention", <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state>: Harper Collins, 1996.
    Tom Kelley, “The Art of Innovation”, <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state>: Doubleday, 2001/2004.
    Subroto Bagchi, “The High-Performance Entrepreneur”, Penguin Books <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>, 2006.
     
    In addition to specified portions from the books above, additional readings were prescribed as well as shown below:
     
    Additional Weekly <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Readings</st1:city></st1:place>:
     
    Week 1:
    Theodore Levitt, “Creativity Is Not Enough”, HBR Classic, HBR, August 2002.
    Robert Simons, “Control in an Age of Empowerment”, HBR, March-April 1995.
    Robert I Sutton, “The Weird Rules of Creativity”, HBR, September 2001.
    Harvard Business Essentials, Managing Creativity and Innovation, by Richard Luecke (2003).
     
    Week 2:
    <st1:city w:st="on">Henderson</st1:city> and <st1:place w:st="on">Clark</st1:place>, Architectural Innovation, ASQ, 35, 1990.
    Clayton M. Christensen, The Innovator’s Dilemma, 1997.
    <st1:city w:st="on">Everett</st1:city> <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Rogers</st1:place></st1:city>, Diffusion of Innovations, 1962.
    Howard H. Stevenson & David E. Gumpert, The Heart of Entrepreneurship, HBR, 2001.
    Amar Bhide, How Entrepreneurs craft Strategies that work, HBR, Mar-Apr 1994.
    Amar Bhide, The Questions every Entrepreneur must answer, HBR, Nov-Dec 1996.
    Chris Warner, Killer Applications: An Entrepreneur’s Education in the Death Zone, in Useem, Useem and Asel (Eds.), Upward Bound, 2003.
    Richard I Sutton, Weird Ideas that spark Innovation, MIT Sloan Management Review, Winter 2002.
    Clayton M. Christensen, Scott Cook, and Taddy Hall, “Marketing Malpractice: The cause and the cure”, HBR, December 2005.
    Clayton M. Christensen & Michael Raynor, The Innovator’s Solution, HBSP, 2003; Chapter 3: What products will customers want to buy?
    Carolyn Watt and Ruth-Ann Boyd, “Customer Experience: The Next Competitive Battleground”, Webinar recording.
    Eric von Hippel, Innovation by User Communities: Learning from Open-source Software, MIT Sloan Management Review, Summer 2001.
     
    Week 3:
    Stefan Thomke, Enlightened Experimentation: The New Imperative for Innovation, HBR, February 2001.
    Sloan Management Review, Spring 2007: The Future of the Web.
    Steve Ballmer Speaks Passionately about Microsoft, Leadership ... and Passion: Knowledge@Wharton, January 10, 2007.
    What's New from Google? http://www.google.com/whatsnew/
     
    Week 4:
    James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras, Building Your Company's Vision, HBR, September 1996.
    Andrew Hargadon and Robert I. Sutton, “Building an Innovation Factory”, HBR OnPoint, February 2001.
    Eric von Hippel, Stefan Thomke and Mary Sonnack, “Creating Breakthroughs at 3M”, HBR, Sept-Oct 1999.
    Larry Huston and Nabil Sakkab, Connect and Develop: Inside Procter and Gamble’s New Model for Innovation, HBR, March 2005.
    David A Garvin and Lynne C Levesque, “Meeting the Challenge of Corporate Entrepreneurship”, HBR, October 2006.
    William A. Sahlman, “How to write a great business plan”, HBR, July 1997.
    Stanley R Rich & David E Gumpert, How to write a winning Business Plan, HBR, May-June 1985.
     
    Week 5:
    Richard G. Hamermesh, Paul W. Marshall and Taz Pirmohamed, “Note on Business Model Analysis for the Entrepreneur”, HBS background note, January 22, 2002.
    John Hamm, “Why entrepreneurs don’t scale”, HBR, December 2002.
    Paul Asel, Scaling up: Ridge Walking from Silicon Valley to McKinley’s Summit, in Useem, Useem and Asel (Eds.), Upward Bound, 2003.
    Teresa M. Amabile, “How to kill creativity”, HBR, September 1998.
    Amar Bhide, What role for Entrepreneurship in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>?, Memo, 2004.
    Clayton M. Christensen & Michael Raynor, The Innovator’s Solution, HBSP, 2003; Epilogue: Passing the Baton.
     
    Cases:
     

    Powering Pegasus: <st1:placetype w:st="on">Institute</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Pursuit</st1:placename> of Excellence; Air <st1:place w:st="on">Deccan</st1:place>: Revolutionising the Indian Skies; Tulip IT Services Limited: Providing End-to-End Wireless Connectivity;

    IDEO Product Development; Hewlett-Packard: The Flight of the Kittyhawk (A); Google, Inc.; 3M: Profile of an Innovating Company; <st1:place w:st="on">Mount Everest</st1:place>—1996.


    "Anand, Vikas" <VAnand@WALTON.UARK.EDU> wrote:
    Hi All: Am looking for recommendations for text books that can be used to support a creativity and innovation course for MBA students. I am also looking for simulations and assignments that can be used in that course. I’d really appreciate any suggestions…please send them to me at vikas@walton.uark.edu and I will be happy to post a summary of all responses.
     
     
    Vikas Anand
    Associate Professor of Management
    Sam M. Walton College of Business
    University of Arkansas
    Fayetteville, AR 72701
    Phone: 479-575-6232, Fax: 479-575-3241
    http://waltoncollege.uark.edu/faculty/search.asp?type=profile&id=145000&group=MGMT
     

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  • 6.  course on innovation and creativity

    Posted 09-04-2007 15:06
    Greeting, Vikas:

    You've already gotten some good input from others, but here are some
    additional ideas:

    You can't beat the _The Handbook of Creativity_, edited by Robert J.
    Sternberg and published by Cambridge University Press in 1999, for
    comprehensiveness. It's pretty expensive, dense, and (because it's an
    edited volume), somewhat disjointed as a text. John S. Dacey and,
    Kathleen H. Lennon's _Understanding Creativity: The Interplay of
    Biological, Psychological, and Social Factors_, published in 1998 by
    Jossey-Bass Inc is designed more as a text, though not work-specific.

    The "Whack..." author also has _A Kick in the Seat of the Pants_, both
    interesting but pop-ish rather than academic. The same is true of
    popular business books about creativity such as _Orbiting the Giant
    Hairball_ by Gordon MacKenzie, which details Mr. MacKenzie?s his
    experiences as a creativity facilitator at Hallmark, Inc., and Roger
    Kao?s _Jamming: The Art and Discipline of Business Creativity_.

    I am actually have a draft book that I'm working on that might
    (eventually) be the best option for a course like your's. Here is the
    Table of Contents, FYI. Keith

    CREATIVITY,INNOVATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP: FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS

    DRAFT CHAPTERS, MARCH 2007
    KEITH JAMES, PH.D.
    PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY

    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    1) Introduction: The Science and Practice of Creativity, Innovation
    and Change

    SECTION 1: FUNDAMENTALS

    2) Cognition and Creativity

    3) Affect and Creativity

    4) Creativity in Groups and Teams

    5) Gotta Serve Something: Personality and Creativity

    6) Fast-Twitch and Slow-Twitch Thinking: The Physics and Physiology of
    Creativity

    7) Culture and Creativity: An Integration of Commonalities,
    Divergences, and Levels


    SECTION 2: APPLICATIONS

    8) Positive and Negative Creativity: Creativity is Not Always a Good Thing

    9) Creativity, Innovation and Change in Organizations

    10) Entrepreneurship: Individual and Situational Influences

    11) Summing Up: Closing the Circle of Creativity

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    Keith James, Ph.D.
    Professor of Organizational Psychology
    Portland State University
    Portland, OR 97207
    (503) 725-3998
    keithj@pdx.edu
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    > "Anand, Vikas" <VAnand@WALTON.UARK.EDU> wrote: Hi
    > All: Am looking for recommendations for text books that can be used
    > to support a creativity and innovation course for MBA students. I am
    > also looking for simulations and assignments that can be used in
    > that course. I’d really appreciate any suggestions…please send them
    > to me at vikas@walton.uark.edu and I will be happy to post a summary
    > of all responses.
    >
    >
    > Vikas Anand
    > Associate Professor of Management
    > Sam M. Walton College of Business
    > University of Arkansas
    > Fayetteville, AR 72701
    > Phone: 479-575-6232, Fax: 479-575-3241
    >
    > http://waltoncollege.uark.edu/faculty/search.asp?type=profile&id=145000&group=MGMT
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