Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab)

sLab and OCAD last year had a strong showing at BookCamp Toronto. Carlos Scolari presented great work alongside Steph Troeth of BookOven, Bob Logan and Peter Jones and I held a workshop, OCAD alum Ghazeleh Etezal presented... it was cool, and we all learned a lot about the future of reading, writing and publishing

Even cooler, the organizers are hosting it again on May 15, 2010
This year's theme: "After ebooks: We are going digital, now what?"
Location same as last year, U of Toronto's iSchool, north tower of Robarts Library (aka "Fort Book")

As you can see below, the OCAD Strategic Foresight and Innovation program are invited to pitch and have garnered the moniker, "esteemed group" (!)

In true camp fashion, all are welcome to propose into the wiki at http://bookcampto.pbworks.com/. However we might want to collect our thoughts and approach it as one or more cohorts, which is what we did last year. The site asks: "Do you want to lead a session at BookCampTO_2010? Add your name and session idea on the session page by April 7"

I plan to compare notes with Bob Logan regarding how we might want to discuss the "sBook" and welcome all interested parties who want to pitch or present collectively to connect with me and Bob.

Strategic Innovation Lab under the direction of Lenore Richards has been assisting Lenore's development of the forthcoming OCAD degree program, Master of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation. More information on the Foresight MDes program is available from OCAD's web site. Below are the beginnings of a bibliography which we've been assembling for support of the program's faculty and students. We welcome reactions or additions from readers of this blog, including faculty and students -- please let us know what we are missing:

Notes for a Bibliography -- MDes in Strategic Foresight and Innovation

Books

• Abrams, Janet; Hall, Peter. (editors) Else/where: Mapping New Cartographies of Networks and Territories. Minnesota: Univeristy of Minnesota Press,
• Christensen, Clayton M. The Innovator’s Dilemma. New York: HarperCollins, 2003
• Christensen, Clayton M. The Innovator’s Solution. Boston: Harvard Business School, 2003
• Drucker, Peter F. Technology, Management & Society. New York: Harper & Row, 1958