Background References for Workshop Participants

Innovation Workshop Participants
The theme of Ed Bernacki's workshops is "wow! that's a great idea!" Hopefully you are putting some of your great ideas into action! During workshops and presentations, he may refer to the following resources. You can download these for your use.

Factors that Hinder or Enhance the Potential for Creativity (word file)
Based on past workshop results, this summary of ideas is available for your use. The ideas presented are taken directly from workshop notes. As such, there may be duplications and some errors.

He may have also referred to articles. For a full list of articles see resources.

Innovative Thinking Books
These books can be ordered from Amazon.com

Applied Imagination: Principles and Procedures of Creative Problem-Solving by Alex Osborn.
This is a great book written in 1953. Learn why brainstorming was conceived in the 1930s as a way to improve the decisions that groups could make.

Orbiting the Giant Hairball Gordon Mackenzie captured the essence of many organizations when he called them "giant hairballs". This entertaining book helps you to orbit the hairball and do so using your creative potential.
Author Edward de Bono offers some excellence perspectives for innovative thinking:
Six Thinking Hats The Six Thinking Hats is an ideal tool to enhance the quality of thinking that teams are capable of.
Parallel Thinking We do not invest enough time to think about our thinking. Parallel Thinking is a powerful perspective for all managers looking to design more powerful solutions.
Serious Creativity Edward de Bono provides a thorough introduction to a variety of perspectives for creative thinking that goes beyond the trite approaches often raised. << back Shop at Amazon.ca!