What New Innovation Tools and Trends are Worth Trying?

Here’s our pick of six fresh research and design resources

By Reena Jana

From a periodic table of data visualization styles to a patented technique to shorten PowerPoint and other presentations to succinct seven-minute speeches, we’ve compiled a list of six tools and trends that savvy executives are tapping for creative business ideas and market research.

Should your team be attending “Cool School- events in Manhattan to learn about hip new technologies and how to deploy them strategically? Should you be sending staff to any of the key design-related conferences and exhibitions that are taking place worldwide this spring? Take a look at our pick of events and resources that promise to spur innovative thinking in the workplace.