Knowledge Creation

» Brain-Trusts
   Facilitates innovation, business development, new ideas and concepts. Features events and a newsletter.

   
   http://brain-trusts.com

» Business Thinking Implementation
   An article by Hidetoshi Shibata in 1998 that describes creating leadership and organizational knowledge. Provides some information on how knowledge creation is key to successful management. The article is mainly about implementing good business thinking.

   
   http://www.mediafrontier.com/Article/implementation/implementation.htm

» Centre for the Development of Creative Thinking
   The COCD creativity site offers creativity tools and training. Web site is in English and Dutch

   
   http://www.cocd.be/

» Create-It! Inc.
   Our mission is to help growing businesses use creativity and technology to chart a course for the future using innovative strategies. We serve a diverse roster of clients through consulting, training, seminars and keynote speeches.

   
   http://www.create-it.com/

» Creative Center of the Universe
   Roger von Oech thinks this site is one of the most comprehensive web-sites around on the subject of creativity. It is a little whacky but full of good stuff that does make you think including the creative timeline of the world.

   
   http://www.gocreate.com/

» CreativeThink
   Stimulate personal or group creativity and innovation through seminars, workshops, and creative thinking books that Roger von Oech has written. This is his company web site.

   
   http://www.creativethink.com/

» Creativity Consulting: Proactive Solutions
   We have assisted individuals, small businesses, companies, and corporations with insight, and innovative thinking.

   
   http://creativeideasforyou.com

» Creativity at Work
   A resource for training and development in creativity and innovation in organizations. Has a newsletter, and some articles and essays by 'Corporate Alchemist' Linda Naiman.

   
   http://www.creativityatwork.com/

» DirectedCreativity
   A guide to creative thinking for serious people, and the eight basic heuristics of directed creativity. This is the web site for Paul Plsek and Associates in Roswell, Georgia, USA. Heuristics are a key to good higher-order thinking and knowledge creation.

   
   http://www.directedcreativity.com/

» Executive Development Inc.
   A training and development company providing workshops and software around decision making, problem solving, team skills, creativity, and meeting management.

   
   http://www.focustools.com

» HBS Working Knowledge
   The Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge web site has long been recognized as a good resource for more practical business fare than usually found in the Harvard Business Review, which makes this section on Innovation and Change articles of particul

   
   http://hbswk.hbs.edu/

» How Much Information?
   Attempts to measure how much information is produced in the world each year by looking at media and other variables. Produced by the School of Information Management Systems at the University of California, Berkeley. Charts and graphs that show comparison

   
   http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info/

» Illumine Ltd
   Training in Creativity, thinking and learning for business and the public sector. In-house and open courses in Creative Thinking, Innovation, Mind Mapping, Speed Reading, Accelerated Learning, Study Skills and Stress Management. Certified by De Bono and B

   
   http://www.illumine.co.uk

» Innovation Centre Europe
   Helps companies with 3rd millennium thinking and creative ways to change.

   
   http://www.iceurope.com/

» Innovation House
   Brainstorming, creative thinking and problem solving for business including free resources and access to Innovation Toolbox.

   
   http://www.infinn.com/innovationhouse.html

» Knowledge-at-Work
   A collection of personal thoughts about learning, community and social affordances for knowledge creation, by Denham Gray. Features archives.

   
   http://denham.typepad.com/km/

» The Thinking Business
   The Thinking Business is an international brain training company specialising in thinking skills including creative thinking, strategic thinking, mind mapping and thinking styles profiling

   
   http://www.thethinkingbusiness.co.uk

» ThinkShop
   Thinkshop is an innovation consulting company with Seattle and New York offices. ThinkShop consults clients on creativity, innovation, naming, strategy and training projects.

   
   http://www.thinkshop.com/pages/services_teambldg.html

» Vital Enterprises
   Develops world-class performers-- people who create desired results with minimal resources and who empower others with their knowledge, skills, and character to do the same.

   
   http://www.vitalentusa.com