[Sigia-l] "Artful Making"

[Christina Wodtke]

no, but I'm reading When Sparks Fly, after reading several articles by the
author (my new favorite way to sample books) and it's very interesting, and
bases its analysis on how to make innovation happen on research, as well as
begin a HBS press book, so I feel pretty confident in it.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0875848656/eleganthack
"Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap describe a method that can help people
become more innovative and better at teamwork. "Whether you lead a group of
three in a nonprofit foundation or 300,000 in a Fortune 500 business, the
basic process of creativity is the same," write Leonard, a Harvard Business
School professor, and Swap, a Tufts University dean. The process involves
five steps: selecting the right mix of people to spark creativity;
identifying the problem needing novel ideas; developing alternatives; taking
time to consider choices; and selecting one option."
review:
http://www.change-management-monitor.com/fullreviews/000301Leonard.html

the authors are also the folks who champion creative abrasion, a concept I'm
currently intrigued by:
http://www.eleganthack.com/archives/003482.html#003482

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Subject: [Sigia-l] "Artful Making"


> Anyone read "Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists
> Work"?
>
> Artful Making offers the first proven, research-based framework for
> engineering ingenuity and innovation. This book is the result of a
> multi-year collaboration between Harvard Business School professor Robert
> Austin and leading theatre director and playwright Lee Devin. Together,
they
> demonstrate striking structural similarities between theatre artistry and
> production and today's business projects--and show how collaborative
artists
> have mastered the art of delivering innovation "on cue," on immovable
> deadlines and budgets. These methods are neither mysterious nor flaky:
they
> are rigorous, precise, and--with this book's help--absolutely learnable
and
> reproducible. They rely on cheap and rapid iteration rather than on
> intensive up-front planning, and with the help of today's enabling
> technologies, they can be applied in virtually any environment with
> knowledge-based outputs. Moreover, they provide an overarching framework
for
> leveraging the full benefits of today's leading techniques for promoting
> flexibility and innovation, from agile development to real options.
>
>
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0130086959/103-7960660-494221
> 8?v=glance>
>
> Ziya
> Nullius in Verba
>
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