7 Christmas Gift Ideas For Your Favorite Innovator

Software, games and books - here’s seven ideal gifts for the innovator on your shopping lists.

Thought Office is a suite of innovation tools to help you create ideas, presentations, ad concepts, and videos. It contains modules that help you define problems and brainstorm solutions, with techniques derived from hundreds of PhDs and industry experts. Click on that image and get a free 15-day trial.

Portal is the greatest creative thinking game of all time. Solve puzzles creatively in order to survive. Focusing on minimizing moves, portals, and time forces you to develop ‘out of the box’ solutions and discover how you create your own obstacles.

The Ten Faces of Innovation is a book that describes the different kind of personality and creative styles it takes to sustain an innovative organization, based the observations of Tom Kelley of IDEO. Read it and match your people to the Ten Faces to make your innovation more effective.

Mindmanager Pro 7 is an excellent mindmapping tool from Mindjet. Mindmapping is a “Level 6″ creativity tool for depicting ideas in a highly visual fashion, more in line with how our cognitive functions work. Generate ideas, create connections, develop plans. And speaking of Level 6…

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The 7 Levels of Change describes innovation in terms of types of change, from doing better to doing different. Read my 9-part series on the 7 Levels and get the book to learn the comprehensive theory.

Cranium is an amazing game of creativity and problem solving. Draw, sculpt, think. It has spawned a whole series of creativity based games.

Mavericks At Work had the wisdom to name me as one of their “50 Maverick Minds” so naturally I’m inclined to recommend this great book that focuses on the open source phenomenon. Learn how open collaboration can bring your innovation to the highest levels.

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