
In addition to various great TED talks (e.g. Designers — think big!, A call for "design thinking", How to build your creative confidence) our recommendations are:
- Creative Confidence, Tom & David Kelley
- The Art of Innovation, Tom Kelley and Jonathan Littmann
- The Ten Faces of Innovation, Tom Kelley
- Game storming, a playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers, D. Gray, S. Brown, J. Macanufo
- Road Trip to Innovation, Delia Dumitrescu
- Design-Driven Innovation - Changing the Rules of Competition by radically Innovation What Things mean, Richard Verganti
- Human-Centered Design Toolkit, IDEO
- Democratizing Innovation, Eric von Hippel
- What matters now, Gary Hamel
- To Do: Die neue Rolle der Gestaltung in einer veränderten Welt, Florian Pfeffer
- Design Thinking, Innovation lernen - Ideenwelten öffnen, Hasso Plattner, Christoph Meinel, Ulrich Weinberg
- Durch die Decke denken, Jürgen Erbeldinger, Thomas Ramge
- A Whole New Mind - Why Right-Brainers Will Rule The Future, Dan Pink
- Change by Design - How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation, Tim Brown
- The design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the next competitive advantage, Roger Martin
- Rapid Viz, a new method for the rapid visualization of Ideas, Hanks & Belliston
- The back of the napkin, Dan Roam
- Visual Meetings, David Sibbet
- Visual Leaders, David Sibbet
- Visual Teams, David Sibbet
- Business Model Generation, Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur
- Improvisation and the theatre, Impro for storytellers ,Keith Johnstone
- Motivation und Persönlichkeit, Julius Kuhl
- Leadership Embodiment: How the Way We Sit and Stand Can Change the Way We Think and Speak, Wendy Palmer, Janet Crawford
- Embodiment and the inner life: Cognition and Consciousness in the Space of Possible Minds,Murray Shanahan
Digital resources
- d. school Stanford - Bootcamp Bootleg
- The virtual crash course Playbook, d.school Stanford
- IDEO Method Cards
- Stanford University - Foresight and Innovation
- Business Model Canvas - Osterwalder / Pigneur
- Value Proposition Canvas
- Design Thinking Method Cards, University of St. Gallen
- Jakob Nielsen, Principal at Nielsen Norman Group
- The ROI of User Experience
- Design Kit
- Resources I Design Council
- Design Management Institute
- http://ddc.dk/en/2015/05/the-design-ladder-four-steps-of-design-use/
- DMI, the four Powers of Design
- http://www.keithjohnstone.com/
- http://www.thewayofimprovisation.com/
- Games and exercises in improvisation
- Ted Talk: Dave Morris – The Way of Improvisation
- Steve Matuszak - The Art of Improvisation
- Zach Beattie - The Art of Improvisation