One of the most original programs at Stanford University has to be the famous d.school.  Jeremy Utley and the rest of the d school leaders have just finished a semester teaching dozens of students who represented every single school on campus (business, law, engineering, medicine and so on) the thought process that the d school believes leads to better innovative thinking…not just for products but a way to approach any problem.  If you would like to see how they approach new thinking, download the pdf they just published.

Here is a brief description from their website of this document:

“The d.school Bootcamp teaching team has curated a loose collection of the methods, modes and mindsets that Bootcamp students found most useful this quarter….The teaching team curated the collection by leveraging the work of many predecessors, drawing from material developed by d.school teaching teams and folks throughout the design world over the last five years.”