Oy Laatukonsultointi P. Kantelinen Ab

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Creativity - sources

- WWW pages
- Literature
- Magazines

Pasi K's favourites are marked with an asterisk (*)


WWW pages

1. Canadian Industrial Innovation Centre (CIIC)
   
2. Angela Booth’s free online creativity course
   
3. Creative Center of the Universe
   
4. Innovation Network
   
5. Directed Creativity Home Page
   
6. CreativeThink, Roger von Oech home page
   
7. Creative Whack Company, creativity tools
   
8. Edvard de Bono’s home page
   
9. Creative Education Foundation
   
10. American Creativity Asociation
    
11. Innovation Tools’ home page page
    
12. SolutionPeople, lots of interesting (commercial) tools and services to facilitate creativity, check e.g. Thinkubator
    
13. TRIZ Journal
    
14. Mind Mapping Resources, Tool, and Tips, Accredited Online Colleges
    

1. * E. de Bono: Lateral Thinking, Penguin Books, 1986
   
2. * E. de Bono: Six Thinking Hats, Little, Brown & Co., 1999
   
3. * E. de Bono: The 5-Day Course in Thinking, Penguin Books, 1986
   
4. * E. de Bono: Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step-by-Step, HarperCollins, 1990
   
5. * E. de Bono’s Mind Pack. An interactive guide to expanding your thinking skills with games, puzzles & exercises, Allen & Unwin, 1995
   
6. * E. de Bono: Mind Power. Discover the Secrets of Creative Thinking, Allen & Unwin, 1995
   
7. * R. Glass: Software Creativity, Prentice Hall, 1994
   
8. * J. Koski, S. Tuominen: Kuinka ideat syntyvät. Luovan ajattelu käsikirja. WSOY 2004 (sorry, in Finnish only)
   
9. * R. von Oech: A Whack on the Side of the Head, Warner Books, 1998
   
10. * R. von Oech: A Kick in the Seat of the Pants, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1986
    
11. P. M. Bailey: ”Creative License”, Better Software, pp. 18 - 23, March 2005
    
12. T. Bentley: Sharpen Your Team’s Skills in Creativity, McGraw-Hill, 1996
    
13. T. Buzan, B. Buzan: The Mind Map Book : How to Use Radiant Thinking to Maximize Your Brain's Untapped Potential, Plume, 1996
    
14. T. Buzan: Use Both Sides of Your Brain, Leornian Press, 1993
    
15. T. Buzan: Use your head, Ariel Books, BBC, 1985
    
16. M.R. Chapman: In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters, Apress, 2006
    
17. D. Chatten, C. Skitt: Lateral Thinking & Logical Deduction, Barnes & Noble, 19988
    
18. B. Colwell: ”Brainstorming, Influence, and Icebergs”, IEEE Computer, pp. 9 - 12, April 2004
    
19. P. Cook: Best Practice Creativity, Gower, 1998
    
20. J.D. Couger: Creative Problem Solving and Opportunity Finding, Boyd and Fraser, 1995
    
21. M. Csikszentmihaly: Creativity : Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention, Perennial, 1997
    
22. P.J. Denning: ”The Social Life of Innovation”, Communications of the ACM, pp. 15 - 19, April 2004
    
23. J. Dew: ”TRIZ: A Creative Breeze for Quality Professionals”, Quality Progress, pp. 44 - 51, January 2006
    
24. M. Fisher: The IdeaFisher, Petersons Guides, 1995
    
25. A. Fletcher: The Art of Looking Sideways, Phaidon Press, 2001
    
26. J. Foster: How To Get Ideas, Berret-Koehler Publishers, 1996
    
27. M. Gladwell: Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Little, Brown, 2005
    
28. W. C. Miller: The Creative Edge, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1988
    
29. P. Howard: The Owners Manual for the Brain, Leornian Press, 1993
    
30. B. Kosko: Fuzzy Thinking : The New Science of Fuzzy Logic, Hyperion, 1994
    
31. C. W. McCoy Jr. : Why Didn't I Think of That? Think the Unthinkable and Achieve Creative Greatness, Prentice Hall Press, 2002
    
32. M. Michalko: Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius, Ten Speed Press, 2001
    
33. M. Michalko: Thinkertoys (A Handbook of Business Creativity), Ten Speed Press, 1991
    
34. B. Shneiderman: ”Creativity Support Tools” (aslo a good article about creativity generally), Communications of the ACM, pp. 116 - 120, October 2002
    
35. P. Sloane, D MacHale: Lateral Thinking Puzzles (Pocket Puzzlers), Sterling Publications, 2000
    
36. S.M. Smith, T.B. Ward, R.A. Finke, ed.: The Creative Cognition Approach, MIT Press, 1995
    
37. R. Stenberg, T.I. Lubart: Defying the Crowd. Cultivating Creativity in a Culture of Conformity, Simon&Schuster, 1995
    
38. R.J. Stenberg, J.E. Davidson, ed.: The Nature of Insight, MIT Press, 1995
    
39. R. van Oech: Expect the Unexpected or You Won't Find It: A Creativity Tool Based on the Ancient Wisdom of Heraclitus, Berret-Koehler Publlishers, 2002
    
40. V. Virkkala: Luova ongelmanratkaisu, Insinööritieto Oy, 1994
    
41. J. Wonder, P. Donova: Whole Brain Thinking, Morrow, 1992