Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change
Author(s): Clayton M. Christensen, Erik A. Roth, Scott D. Anthony
ISBN: 1591391857
When a disruptive innovation is launched, it changes the entire industry and every firm operating within in This book argues that it is possible to predict which companies will win and which will lose in a specific situation-;and provides a practical framework for doing so. Most books on innovation-;including Christensen's previous two books-;approached innovation from the inside-out, showing firms how they can create innovations inside their own companies. This book is written from an outside-in perspective, showing how executives, investors, and analysts can assess the impact of a new innovation on the firms they have a vested interest in.
Making Innovation Work: How to Manage It, Measure It, and Profit from It
Author(s): Tony Davila, Marc J. Epstein, Robert Shelton
ISBN: 0131497863
"This is the book I wish I had read thirty years ago. Making Innovation Work is an important resource for leaders who are trying to improve innovation in their organizations. It's crammed with examples and practical ideas that can trigger improvements in innovation, starting tomorrow!"
—Lew Platt, Chairman of Boeing, former Chairman and CEO of HP, and former CEO of Kendall-Jackson Wine Estates
The Seeds of Innovaiton
Author(s): Elaine Dundon
ISBN: 0814471463
Here, innovation thought leader Elaine Dundon offers a "how-to" prescription for building creative and strategic innovation skills at all levels of an organization (rather than focusing on decision-making levels only) -- and explains how to produce measurable results that translate directly to the bottom line
The Only Sustainable Edge
Author(s): John Hagel III, John Seely Brown
ISBN: 1591397200
Offshoring and outsourcing have generated substantial savings and often controversial news coverage for many companies. But these technologies aren't even close to being the real story. Two of business' leading strategy thinkers argue that the only sustainable advantage will come not from using technology to cut costs-;but to get better faster than rivals. The authors identity two key forces-;dynamic specialization and productive friction that will dramatically reshape the competitive landscape and show what firms must do to understand, build and exploit these forces before their competitors do.
Jump Start Your Business Brain
Author(s): Doug Hall
ISBN: 1558706429
Leading the Revolution
Author(s): Gary Hamel
ISBN: 0452283248
Leading the Revolution is not a calm analysis of what will or won't work in a post-industrial world. Instead, it's an impassioned call for revolutionary activists to shake the foundations of their companies' beliefs and move from a linear age of getting better, smarter, and faster, to a nonlinear age of becoming different. While in the past incremental improvements in products and services were accepted as good enough, Hamel shows that true innovation is the demolition and re-creation of an entire business concept. He blows apart the popular myth that innovation lies solely in the hands of dot.com dynamos like AOL and Amazon by scrutinizing the examples of such "gray-haired revolutionaries" as Enron and Charles Schwab, companies that have managed to reinvent both themselves and their entire industries, time and again.
The Medici Effect
Author(s): Frans Johansson
ISBN: 1591391865
Johansson, founder and former CEO of an enterprise software company, argues that innovations occur when people see beyond their expertise and approach situations actively, with an eye toward putting available materials together in new combinations. Because of ions, "the movement of people, the convergence of science, and the leap of computation," a wide range of materials available for new, recontextualized uses is becoming a norm rather than an exception, much as the Medici family of Renaissance Italy's patronage helped develop European arts and culture. For cases in point, Johansson profiles, among others, Marcus Samuelsson, the acclaimed chef at New York's Aquavit. An Ethiopian orphan, Samuelsson was adopted by a Swedish family, with whom he traveled widely, enabling him to develop the restaurant's unique and innovative menu. (Less familiar innovators include a medical resident who, nearly assaulted by an emergency room patient she was treating, developed outreach programs designed to prevent teen violence.) Chapters admonish readers to "Randomly Combine Concepts" and "Ignite an Explosion of Ideas." Less focused on innovations within a corporate setting than on individual achievements, and more concerned with self-starting and goal-setting than teamwork, Johansson's book offers a clear enough set of concepts for plugging in the specifics of one's own setting and expertise. But don't expect the book to tell you where to get the money for prototypes or production.
The Art of Innovation
Author(s): Thomas Kelley, Jonathan Littman
ISBN: 0385499841
The award-winning design and development firm IDEO, which brought the world the Apple mouse, reveals its secrets to fostering innovative, out-of-the-box thinking across the world of business. In this handbook, the author outlines the steps IDEO and other successful companies use to achieve successful problem solving.
The Ten Faces of Innovation
Author(s): Thomas Kelley, Jonathan Littman
ISBN: 0385512074
"Essential reading for every single person in your organization--even the CEO should read it! Each page contains a nugget that's worth the price of the entire book. Wow."
—Seth Godin, author of Purple Cow
Blue Ocean Strategy
Author(s): W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne
ISBN: 1591396190
Kim and Mauborgne's blue ocean metaphor elegantly summarizes their vision of the kind of expanding, competitor-free markets that innovative companies can navigate. Unlike "red oceans," which are well explored and crowded with competitors, "blue oceans" represent "untapped market space" and the "opportunity for highly profitable growth." The only reason more big companies don't set sail for them, they suggest, is that "the dominant focus of strategy work over the past twenty-five years has been on competition-based red ocean strategies" - i.e., finding new ways to cut costs and grow revenue by taking away market share from the competition. With this groundbreaking book, Kim and Mauborgne-both professors at France's INSEAD, the second largest business school in the world-aim to repair that bias. Using dozens of examples-from Southwest Airlines and the Cirque du Soleil to Curves and Starbucks-they present the tools and frameworks they've developed specifically for the task of analyzing blue oceans. They urge companies to "value innovation" that focuses on "utility, price, and cost positions," to "create and capture new demand" and to "focus on the big picture, not the numbers." And while their heavyweight analytical tools may be of real use only to serious strategy planners, their overall vision will inspire entrepreneurs of all stripes, and most of their ideas are presented in a direct, jargon-free manner. Theirs is not the typical business management book's vague call to action; it is a precise, actionable plan for changing the way companies do business with one resounding piece of advice: swim for open waters.
Mindfulness
Author(s): Ellen Langer
ISBN: 0201523418
The mindless following of routine and other automatic behaviors lead to much error, pain and a predetermined course of life, contends Langer, Harvard professor of psychology, in this thought-provoking study in which she "translates" for lay readers the findings of her research, much of it among the elderly. With anecdotes and metaphors, she explains how the mindless--as opposed to the mindful--develop mindsets of categories, associations, habits of thought born of repetition in childhood and throughout schooling. To be mindful, she notes, emphasizing process over outcome, allows free rein to intuition and creativity, and opens us to new information and perspectives.
24/7 Innovation
Author(s): Stephen Shapiro
ISBN: 0071376267
Whether you are a leader or a pursuer, 24-7 Innovation takes you beyond the rigid policies, prescriptive processes, and fragmented organizational structures that have stifled true innovation for too long. This step-by-step book shows you how to instill a mind-set of continuous innovation at every level of your organization, one that will allow you to achieve and sustain a leadership position in any market. It outlines a lean, action-based framework designed to put your organization in the state of "perpetual innovation" that is necessary for creating sustainable business success.
The Design of Things to Come
Author(s): Craig Vogel, Jonathan Cagan, Peter Boatwright
ISBN: 0131860828
"Much is being written about innovation that is of little utility to corporate managers, but this new book by Vogel, Cagan, and Boatwright is definitely worth reading. It disaggregates the broad concept of "innovation" into usable ideas and strategies that can be implemented. Whether it's the notion that manufacturing quality is the new commodity or designing for customer desire, this book breaks through all the chatter about innovation and deals with what's crucial for managers in their day-to-day work lives. I learned a great deal about innovation and design from it."
—Bruce Nussbaum, Editorial Page Editor, Business Week
The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
Author(s): Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor
ISBN: 1578518520
At best one company in ten is able to sustain profitable growth. Yet capital markets demand that all companies seek it relentlessly and mercilessly punish those who fail. Why is consistent, persistent growth so difficult to achieve? Surprisingly, it.s not for lack of great ideas or capable managers, nor is it because customers are too fickle or innovation too unpredictable. Innovation fails, say Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor, because organizations unwittingly strip the disruptive potential from new ideas before they ever see the light of day.
Beyond Reengineering
Author(s): Michael Hammer
ISBN: 0887308805
In Beyond Reengineering, Hammer offers powerful insights into the consequences of the reengineering revolution and how they are changing our work and our lives. To succeed - or even to survive - in today's global economy, companies must refocus and reorganize themselves around their processes: the end-to-end sequences of tasks that create customer value.
Reengineering the Corporation
Author(s): Michael Hammer, James Champy
ISBN: 0066621127
The most successful business book of the last decade, Reengineering the Corporation is the pioneering work on the most important topic in business today: achieving dramatic performance improvements. This book leads readers through the radical redesign of a company's processes, organization, and culture to achieve a quantum leap in performance.
On Creativity, Innovation, & Renewal
Author(s): Frances Hesselbein, Rob Johnston
ISBN: 0787960675
On Creativity, Innovation, and Renewal shows leaders how to establish a workplace environment that encourages creativity and innovation while creating a sense of passion and importance. Part of the Leader to Leader Guides, which offer a wellspring of rich insight and information from top leadership thinkers, it features leading experts on strategic innovation, sparking creativity, and transforming organizations
101 Creative Problem Solving Techniques
Author(s): James M. Higgins
ISBN: 1883629004
The author presents 101 techniques to stimulate creativity and innovation in individuals and groups.
The Creative Priority
Author(s): Jerry Hirshberg
ISBN: 0887309607
In The Creative Priority Hirshberg weaves together enlightening real-world anecdotes with the story of NDI's genesis to illustrate eleven interlocking strategies that came to define NDI's creative priority. Richly illustrated with NDI's elegant designs and sketched, The Creative Priority is at once a compelling narrative, a rich store of hands-on experience, and a grab bag of breakthrough insights that can help your business perform its most vital function.
99% Inspiration
Author(s): Bryan W. Mattimore
ISBN: 0814477887
99% Inspiration supplies a palette of techniques and stories to help business people tap hidden creative strengths. This entertaining book enables readers to creatively solve a wide range of workplace issues by using the creative techniques of such geniuses as Walt Disney, Albert Einstein, and Leonardo DaVinci.
Creativity in Business
Author(s): Michael L. Ray, Rochelle Myers
ISBN: 0385248512
CREATIVITY IN BUSINESS argues that most businesses succeed not solely due to good bottom line numbers and high levels of efficiency, but in large part because they foster the creative spirit within their employees to solve problems imaginatively. Built from a class they taught at the Stanford Business School, Ray and Meyers's teaching encourages meditation, visualization, and other exercises to advance creative responses to crises.
