The Forgotten Half of Change: Achieving Greater Creativity Through Changes in Perception
Inspiring creativity is one of the most pressing needs for corporations, particularly those in markets that are forcing them not only to improve but transform themselves. Yet true creativity can be had only if you are willing to break the rules that have locked you in a set way of thinking, not just doing. This unique book will help managers think about how they think. … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Author: Luc de Brabandere | Subject: Innovation
Profiting from Intellectual Capital: Extracting Value from Innovation
Divided into three sections, the book is filled with the practices and procedures of companies that are in the vanguard of ICM – Dow Chemical, Xerox, Rockwell International, Skandia, and Hewlett-Packard. The first part of the book presents essential terms and concepts, along with basic material on the principles of value extraction and a discussion of the usefulness of values in the management of intellectual … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Author: Patrick H. Sullivan | Subject: Innovation
The Management of Innovation
First published in 1961, The Management of Innovation is a business classic: one of the most influential books about business organizations ever published. Challenging the received wisdom that there is “one best way” to manage, it sounded the death knell of classical management theory and provided something lasting in its place: a way of looking at organizations that allowed for different contexts, different markets, and … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Authors: G. M. Stalker, Tom Burns | Subject: Innovation
Seeing What’s Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change
When a disruptive innovation is launched, it changes the entire industry and every firm operating within it. 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 … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Authors: Clayton M. Christensen, Erik A. Roth, Scott D. Anthony | Subjects: Innovation, Management
Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution
“Innovation” is one of the great buzzwords of management theory, but this treatise accords it a thoroughgoing analysis. Management consultant Moore, author of the bestselling Crossing the Chasm, argues that companies can escape the marginless hell of commodity and price competition only through innovations that differentiate their products from their competitors’ in the minds of consumers. He elaborates a taxonomy of 15 “innovation types,” from … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Author: Geoffrey A. Moore | Subject: Innovation
Fast Second: How Smart Companies Bypass Radical Innovation to Enter and Dominate New Markets
If your organization aspires to create or conquer the new markets of the twenty-first century, Fast Second offers concrete advice on how to go about achieving this. Internationally acclaimed strategy experts Constantinos Markides and Paul Geroski explore:
– How radical innovation creates new-to-the-world markets
– What the structural characteristics of early markets are and the implications for prospective new entrants
– How … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Authors: Constantinos C. Markides, Paul A. Geroski | Subjects: Innovation, Strategy
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
A classic by Drucker.
Content: Book | Author: Peter F. Drucker | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Innovation
Leading for Innovation: & Organizing For Results
In this second volume of The Drucker Foundation’s Wisdom to Action Series, twenty-seven remarkable thought leaders help today’s leaders meet the challenge of releasing the power of innovation. Leading for Innovation brings together Clayton M. Christensen, Jim Collins, Howard Gardner, Charles Handy, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, C. William Pollard, Margaret Wheatley, and other thought leaders to offer you practical guidance on leading your organization to a … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Authors: Frances Hesselbein, Iain Somerville, Marshall Goldsmith | Subjects: Innovation, Organizational Behavior
The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World
Innovation’s encounter with the market results in a game of both high risk and high stakes. Often its outcome defies common sense: Superior new products flop, unlikely ideas become runaway hits, and-despite rapid technological advances and intense interconnectedness-change happens at a snail’s pace. What really happens during this encounter? How can you increase your own odds on this complex game board?
In The Slow Pace of … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Author: Bhaskar Chakravorti | Subject: Innovation
Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology
The great corporate research departments at companies like Bell Labs, IBM and Xerox were once the motor of American industry. But that may be changing, according to this probing academic study of corporate technological innovation. Chesbrough, an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School, argues that the old “closed innovation” model-vertically integrated research-and-development departments that develop technology in-house for the sole use of their corporate … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Author: Henry Chesbrough | Subject: Innovation
Juice: The Creative Fuel That Drives World-Class Inventors
Creating new possibilities. Finding hidden problems. Blasting through knowledge barriers. That’s the job of inventors. And just as invention has fueled the progress of humankind for centuries, the same thinking patterns that produced breakthroughs from the steam engine to the gene sequencer will spawn the inventions on which we’ll build our future.
But what drives invention? Where do the mental leap, the “Aha!” and the … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Author: Evan I. Schwartz | Subject: Innovation
Managing Strategic Innovation and Change: A Collection of Readings
The problem isn’t coming up with good ideas-any manager will tell you-it’s creating an organization that can implement those good ideas and sustain innovation over time.
In this book, a second edition to the popular original, editors Michael Tushman (Harvard Business School) and Philip Anderson (INSEAD) continue to collect best writings on the subject of managing innovation, some current, some that go back decades. A reading … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Authors: Michael L. Tushman, Philip Anderson | Subjects: Change Management, Innovation
Diffusion of Innovations
Since the first edition of this landmark book was published in 1962, Everett Rogers’s name has become “virtually synonymous with the study of diffusion of innovations,” according to Choice. The second and third editions of Diffusion of Innovations became the standard textbook and reference on diffusion studies. Now, in the fourth edition, Rogers presents the culmination of more than thirty years of research that will … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Author: Everett M. Rogers | Subject: Innovation
Winning Through Innovation: A Practical Guide to Leading Organizational Change and Renewal
To avoid long-term failure while focusing on short-term success, business professors Tushman and O’Reilly present their views on the “ambidextrous organization.” This is defined as having internally consistent structures and an internal operating culture that provides for excelling today while also planning for the future. This paradoxical state of dealing with incremental changes in the here and now while at the same time emphasizing the … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Authors: Charles O’Reilly, Michael Tushman | Subjects: Innovation, Organizational Behavior
Product Juggernauts: How Companies Mobilize to Generate a Stream of Market Winners
Deschamps and Nayak, vice-presidents of the international consulting firm Arthur D. Little, Inc., argue that a company’s success depends on its ability to improve its products or services continuously while simultaneously focusing the entire organization on the process of product creation. Product juggernauts are companies that attain market leadership by creating a continuous stream of world-class products through concentrated efforts on product development procedures. The … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Authors: Jean-Philippe Deschamps, P. Ranganath Nayak | Subject: Innovation
The Map of Innovation: Creating Something Out of Nothing
What if innovation could be made routine-if assembly-line procedures could churn out brilliant ideas on command? O’Connor, the founder of online ad wholesaler DoubleClick and an unremitting entrepreneur, relishes innovative ideas-from a youthful scheme to shock a troublesome raccoon to DVD rentals that self-destruct instead of having to be returned-and offers here a “reproducible” process that will “force innovation” and “improve both the numbers and … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Authors: Kevin O’Connor, Paul B. Brown | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Innovation
How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate
Breakthrough ideas are more about networking than inspirational strokes of genius, says UC-Davis professor Hargadon. In this book he studies the genesis of big product ideas from the light bulb to biotech and finds that “technology brokering” – the combination of pieces of ideas drawn from different markets and industries – drives the innovation process that generates many breakthroughs.
Content: Book | Author: Andrew Hargadon | Subjects: Innovation, Management
Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Managers, and Investors Manage Risk in High-Tech Innovations
In this book Lewis Branscomb and Philip Auerswald address early-stage, high-tech innovation in the context of business decision making and innovation policy. The topics addressed include the extent to which purely technical risk is separable from market risk; how industrial managers make decisions on funding early-stage, high-risk technology projects; and under what circumstances government can and should act to reduce the technical risks of innovative … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Authors: Lewis M. Branscomb, Philip E. Auerswald | Subjects: Innovation, Risk Management
Creativity in Business
This book is the distillation of the course that Michael Ray and Rochelle Myers taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. The authors present us with points, then give us stories and examples from the world of business and underpinnings from the world of scientific and psychological research that help explain why the examples work. This is a book that presents you with tools … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Author: Michael L. Ray | Subjects: Innovation, Personal Development