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Tom Kelley is a partner at IDEO, one of the world’s leading design and innovation consultancies. He is known for his expertise in fostering creativity and organizational innovation.
Known for: Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All, The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm, The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Defeating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization
Books by Tom Kelley
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All
Creative Confidence es un libro que inspira a las personas a liberar su potencial creativo, sin importar su profesión o experiencia. Los hermanos Tom y David Kelley, fundadores de IDEO, comparten hist...
The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm
The Art of Innovation offers an inside look at IDEO, one of the world’s most innovative design firms, revealing how its teams create breakthrough products and services. Tom Kelley and Jonathan Littman...
The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Defeating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization
In this influential work, Tom Kelley, general manager of IDEO, explores how organizations can foster creativity and innovation by adopting ten distinct personas that challenge conventional thinking. E...
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From Fear to Courage
At IDEO, we’ve encountered countless smart people held back by fear. They have ideas but hesitate to share them; they want to innovate but worry about criticism. Fear is creativity’s greatest enemy—it convinces you that you’re not the creative type. Yet, through experience, we’ve learned that fear i...
From Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All
Rediscovering Creativity
We all hold memories of creative moments—they’re just buried. In one of our corporate workshops, an accountant told us she lacked creativity. We asked her to redesign the most time-consuming part of her department’s workflow. Through a simple process map and a few communication changes, she increase...
From Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All
IDEO’s Human-Centered Design and Culture of Creativity
At IDEO, we begin with an unshakable belief: design should serve people. Every project starts with understanding the users—their habits, frustrations, and unspoken needs. This principle, known as human-centered design, anchors everything we do. It requires more than good ideas; it demands empathy, c...
From The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm
Hot Teams and the Pulse of Collaboration
A 'hot team' is IDEO’s way of forging intensity and purpose. These are small, cross-functional groups brought together for a mission—a design challenge with real stakes and tight deadlines. Think of them as creative strike forces: designers, engineers, and anthropologists joined by a common goal, ea...
From The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm
The Anthropologist
When I think of the Anthropologist, I think of someone who views the world with eyes wide open, curious, unassuming, and endlessly observant. This persona thrives on empathy. In design, empathy isn’t a buzzword—it’s the moment you humble yourself before real human experience and let it reshape your ...
From The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Defeating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization
The Experimenter
If the Anthropologist finds insights, the Experimenter turns them into action. This persona’s rallying cry is simple: build to think. At IDEO, we treat prototypes as verbs—something you do, not something you make. The Experimenter doesn’t wait for perfection. They believe that the sooner you fail, t...
From The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Defeating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization
About Tom Kelley
Tom Kelley is a partner at IDEO, one of the world’s leading design and innovation consultancies. He is known for his expertise in fostering creativity and organizational innovation. Kelley has co-authored several bestselling books on design thinking and innovation, including 'The Art of Innovation' ...
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Tom Kelley is a partner at IDEO, one of the world’s leading design and innovation consultancies. He is known for his expertise in fostering creativity and organizational innovation. Kelley has co-authored several bestselling books on design thinking and innovation, including 'The Art of Innovation' ...
Tom Kelley is a partner at IDEO, one of the world’s leading design and innovation consultancies. He is known for his expertise in fostering creativity and organizational innovation. Kelley has co-authored several bestselling books on design thinking and innovation, including 'The Art of Innovation' and 'Creative Confidence'.
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