title: IDEO: Masters of Innovation
author:  Jeremy Myerson 
description: It's hard to believe that objects such as the Palm V organizer, the neat-squeeze dispenser, and the Polaroid i-zone camera have anything in common. Yet these were all developed at IDEO, a Palo Alto-based engineering and design firm. <i>IDEO: Masters of Innovation</i> gives us page after page of products that are compelling not just in name, but in concept, whether they are prototypes or manufactured products. The text of the book, unfortunately, is more about the firm than the firm's work, and, in keeping with that, the adjective-laden writing does not do much more than lavish praise. Still, the book is mostly composed of photographs of products and the sketches that produced them. Their strength, and the book's clean and beautiful design, transcend the lack of information in the writing, making it a worthy sourcebook of ideas and a good introduction to the work of this remarkable firm. <i>--Juliette Cezzar</i>
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  Nicolai Andler
  
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   **Nicolai Andler** graduated from the Technical University of Berlin with
  
  a combined Masters of Commerce and Masters of Chemical Engineering
  
  degree with distinction. The Technical University of Berlin is one of
  
  the few universities that have a faculty for systems engineering, which is
  
  the science on which this book is partly based. He also holds a Master
  
  of Management degree from the French Graduate School of Business in
  
  Toulouse (Grande Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Toulouse – MBA
  
  equivalent) with a specialization in ‘management of multinational groups’
  
  and ‘international business strategies.’
  
  Before founding his own company, the Ignite Group, Nicolai Andler was a senior
  consultant with an IT and CRM consultancy for several years. Prior to working
  in the IT consulting field, he had freelance experience in management
  consulting in Europe and sev