The Innovation Mastery Library
InnovationLabs has published many of the most important books in the innovation field during the last two decades. They are now collected as The Innovation Mastery Library.
Books
Workbooks
All of these workbooks are linked to the Innovation Mastery course, and their use is explained in the relevant modules of the course. The digital PDF versions are all included as free downloads with the course.
The Innovation Mastery Workbook: The Learning Companion
to the World’s Most Complete Innovation Course
This is the companion workbook to the entire Innovation Mastery online course, the world’s most complete online course in innovation.
Consisting of more than 250 worksheets, this is exactly the tool you need to help you master innovation and apply your learnings to your own organization.
Innovation Development Workbook
Innovation Development is a specific stage of the innovation process which comes after the initial creation and ideation. It is a rigorous and disciplined process of refinement as ideas are transformed into specific value-creating products and services. This workbook leads you through these critical phases by providing detailed, step-by-step guidance on the key 20 key questions that must be asked and answered.
Innovation Audit Workbook
An Innovation Audit is the rigorous process of assessing an organization’s current strengths and weaknesses in its innovation process, and determining the most important actions to take to shift to high proficiency. Such an Audit is also the basis from which an Innovation Master Plan is created.
The Innovation Formula Workbook
This workbook is a companion volume to the book The Innovation Formula: Thriving on Innovation for Small Business Leaders. The workbook is linked closely to the text of the book, and provides worksheets to help you address all the key issues and ideas that are covered in the book. If you are a small business innovator, this is an important resource for you.
Design Thinking Workbook
Design Thinking is an important technique that all effective innovators must master. The Innovation Mastery course includes 20 video chapters on all facets of Design Thinking, and this workbook is the right tool to take the learning to a deep level, and also to apply it to your organization.
Facilitation Guidebook
Nearly all innovation work is done by teams, and all teams require facilitation. This high performance guidebook is designed for experienced facilitators, helping them to take their own skills to a much higher level.
White Papers
The Covid-19 Series of White Papers
From March through September 2020, InnovationLabs prepared a series of white papers about the unfolding Covid-19 crisis.
These were written as the crisis unfolded as part of our attempt to understand what was happening and to advise our clients as to the best strategies for survival and success.
By applying the Scenario Planning technique, we were able to shift our thinking from a “prediction mindset” of trying to determine exactly what would happen, which we recognized would be impossible, to an “anticipation mindset,” thinking about what may happen, and preparing for a wide range of possibilities.
These white papers received global attention, and we have been told that they were passed throughout many organizations as leaders worked to respond effectively.
You may download the white paper here.
Social Design: The Link Between Facility Design, Organization Design, and Corporate Strategy
This white paper presents a detailed study of the design of R&D facilities. After a thorough review of the literature and visits to 9 leading-edge R&D facilities, Morris prepared this landmark White Paper.
Among the key insights is the widespread belief in the importance of high quality, face-to-face interactions between researchers. Thus, among the 9 facilities presented in this report, a total of more than 70 different architectural design and organizational techniques were applied by many of the leading design firms in the country. The report includes a description of each facility as well as the complete inventory of techniques applied.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: The Productivity of Knowledge Work
- Social Design
- The Key Themes
- Facility Descriptions
- Genentech South San Francisco Campus
- W.L. Gore & Associates Elkton Cluster
- Procter & Gamble Heath Care Research Center
- Chiron Corporation Life Science Center
- Glaxo Wellcome US R&D Headquarters
- Inhale Therapeutic Systems Headquarters
- Hewlett Packard RSI Team Space
- Alza Corporation Mountain View Campus
- Sun Microsystems Menlo Park Campus
- Science and Social Design
- Summary: Inventory of Ideas and Innovations