More and more people have to organize or moderate innovation processes, creative workshops and design thinking projects and need help when choosing appropriate tools. At the same time, the number of available methods has virtually exploded in recent years - making it difficult to find the most appropriate method. This book presents 555 of the most important innovation methods and tools, selected and curated by experienced innovation professionals. A step-by-step explanation for each method allows for easy implementation in your own team meeting or workshop. Further information on each method, such as method results, experience insights, required innovation skills and numerous illustrations help the reader to select the right instrument and adapt it to their respective goal. Whether you are a beginner or a professional, the book will help you to select methods quickly and safely. Innovation managers and everyone responsible for projects and products will find invaluable help for their work in this dictionary. It also offers a Design Thinking reference for all methods as well as a free online method search with various search paths. Events around the book Link to a De Gruyter Online Event in which the editors Christian Buchholz and Benno van Aerssen discuss and present the use of tools and innovation methods in workshops, meetings, and innovation projects. The event will be moderated by Joanne Hyland, Founding Partner, and President, rInnovation Group: https://youtu.be/TZNdWiY_s2w

Christian Buchholz has been working as a management trainer, innovation coach, speaker and consultant for more than 19 years. He is considered an expert on leadership and innovation. In 1999 Buchholz founded the consulting firm educando human performance and has since worked in 21 different countries for companies such as Siemens, Commerzbank, B.Braun and Deutsche Telekom. As a three-time entrepreneur, he knows the challenges of startups as well as the culture of large corporations. Christian Buchholz has already received several awards for his work. He has won the International German Training Prize twice (in 2011 and 2013) and received the LIFO® At-Its-Best Award in 2014 for linking the LIFO® method with innovation culture. Together with Benno van Aerssen, Bucholz founded the verrocchio Institute for Innovation Competence, an innovation think tank that has already trained a large number of innovation managers in companies to become innovation coaches.