Fortune has a round-up of the next generation of management experts who are changing the way business gets done. Among the group is IDEO’s Valerie Casey, who founded the Designers Accord, a global coalition of designers, educators, researchers, engineers, and corporate leaders, working together to create positive environmental and social impact. More than 100,000 people and organizations, including Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products and Adobe, have signed on.

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Phred Dvorak reports on how New York’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center tapped IDEO to help make the chemotherapy process easier on patients. The hospital enlisted designers “to look at problems differently,” said Wendy Perchick, head of strategic planning and innovation, in the article. IDEO’s process “was the first time for us to see [chemotherapy] through patients’ eyes,” she added.

McKinsey’s Lenny Mendonca and Stanford professor Hayagreeva Rao speak with Tim Brown about his perspective on innovation at IDEO and at other organizations. In the article, he focuses on the role of leadership in stimulating creativity, the barriers that sometimes inhibit it, and the incentives that really help to generate new ideas. He also discusses opportunities to innovate in public services and the promise of user-generated online content.

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Bruce Nussbaum blogs about why a deep recession can be a great opportunity for innovation. With a nod to IDEO’s Tim Brown, Nussbaum suggest we’ll see big changes in consumer behavior, pointing to a potential shift from spending to saving through such initiatives as Bank of America’s Keep the Change.

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MAKE magazine highlights the Global Chain Reaction fun, with editors spotting their publication’s cameo in IDEO’s 20-minute, three-continent video vignette. To watch the full clip of the Rube Goldberg contraption, visit IDEO Labs.

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Tagged under “ambition,” Gizmodo marvels at IDEO Labs’ Global Chain Reaction. Blogger Adam Frucci writes, “Sure, we’ve seen a number of fun Rube Goldberg devices in our day, but none with the scale and ambition of this one made by IDEO.” For the video of the contraption, visit IDEO Labs.

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Entrepreneur Tomohisha Miyauchi asks IDEO’s Bill Moggridge about being a successful international business player in a competitive environment. Follow Miyauchi’s journey through Star Alliance and CNBC.

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Ford’s SmartGauge with EcoGuide gives hybrid owners a more-connected, fuel-efficient driving experience by coaching them on how to optimize performance of the 2010 Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan hybrids. IDEO and Smart Design collaborated with Ford on the project, and brainstorming sessions with the IDEO team led to more than 100 ideas about information to display.

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James Moed, a Business Factors strategist at IDEO in London, explains how successful organizations navigate a downtown. Seeing a recession as an opportunity can lead to smart new initiatives.

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Ideas are a dime a dozen, while getting new services to market is a rare commodity. IDEO’s Mark Jones and Fran Samalionis explain their strategies for execution.

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In Jocelyn Wyatt’s blog entry from Social Capital Markets 2008, she writes about her pleasant surprise in hearing speakers respond to the need for systems, as well as products, to be designed.

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In the October issue of the Harvard Business Review, Diego Rodriguez, a partner at IDEO, talks about dealing with the “lone inventor myth.” In the article “Creativity and the Role of the Leader,” Diego asks readers to consider the examples of InnoCentive, Mozilla, and Wikipedia. “All are contexts that bring in lots of contributors,” he explains. “And the fundamental structure of such networked organizations is not centralized and top-down.” For more on Diego’s thinking and to access the full article, click here.

The New York Times recently wrote about design thinking. Reporter Janet Rae-Dupree interviewed IDEO’s Tim Brown, and in his blog, Tim keeps the conversation going. Tim writes about the gray line between the traditional role of design and the more strategic contribution that design thinking can make. Join the discussion.

Doug Solomon and Gentry Underwood recently presented at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York City. In their session on “Knowledge Sharing by Design,” they ask, “How can we empower project teams to communicate, collaborate, and build relations with people?”

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IDEO’s Valerie Casey talks with Fast Company about the Designers Accord, a movement she founded to encourage organizations to reduce their carbon footprints and raise social and environmental impact with their clients. In less than a year, the Accord has united 100,000 designers and firms from 100 countries, including recent adopters Adobe and Autodesk.

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