books about: innovation     books:       The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm70 reviews Tom Kelley, Jonathan Littman, ... Doubleday Business, 2001 Watching 'The Medici Effect' at work in IDEO! The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm by Tom Kelley The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Defeating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization by Thomas Kelley Much had already been written - the good & the bad - about these two books after they were published. I do not wish to travel on the ...             Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint for Transforming the Way Your Company Innovates1 review Peter Skarzynski, Rowan Gibson Harvard Business School Press, 2008 If your firm's strategy can be applied to any other firm, you don't have a very good one. This is an outstanding book, it distills ideas from other books into a step by step format! If you've read Gary Hamel's work, this books takes most of his insights and puts them in a how to format. Very insightful! It's great for startups also as it lays the foundations of the seeds to place. Buy it, read it, carry it with you and share it. No more excuses for not making innovation a daily ...             The Myths of Innovation34 reviews Scott Berkun O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008 Excellent book for people working to innovate, and even for those curious or unsure about what innovation means or how to do it I recommend Scott Berkun's book The Myths of Innovation to everyone willing to trade a couple hours of reading and thinking for a deeper understanding of what's holding you back in your creative endeavours, and some alternatives to help you get out of your rut. In Myths Scott lists 10 myths, one per chapter, which hamper people from innovating. His chapters begin by explaining some important ...             Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want26 reviews Curtis R. Carlson, William W. Wilmot Crown Business, 2006 Innovation - The Story of SRI International Right, this is not a book about innovation - it is a book about business management today, and its guidance is spot on! In what the authors call today's "exponential economy" (Freidman calls it a Flat World), the five disciplines of innovation equate to the five critical elements for business success. Consider each discipline: 1. Important Needs: Work on important customer and market needs - ...             Innovation and Entrepreneurship5 reviews Peter F. Drucker Collins Business, 2006 I fully concur: 1st book to present innovation & entrepreneurship as a purposeful & systematic discipline! I am very gratified to note that this wonderful book is still around & is being re-released as a new print. I read it when it was first published in the mid-80s. I remember that I had reread it during the early 90's when I had just started my own consultancy business. I fully concur that this book is the first book to present innovation & entrepreneurship as a purposeful & systematic ...             Making Innovation Work: How to Manage It, Measure It, and Profit from It21 reviews Tony Davila, Marc J. Epstein, ... Wharton School Publishing, 2005 The first word on innovation We recommend this book to everyone involved in innovation. Whether you're involved as a creative thinker, a promoter of new products, a manager guiding the innovation process or an investor evaluating an innovative company, there's gold here for you. Authors Tony Davila, Marc J. Epstein and Robert Shelton compress a mass of research and experience in innovation practices into a set of rules and ...             Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do to Get It ...10 reviews John Kao Free Press, 2007 Innovating in what has become a "flat" global marketplace The title of Thomas Friedman's most recently published book, The World Is Flat, is explained by the author in the Introduction: his use of the word "flat" refers to "the flattening forces [that] are empowering more and more individuals today to reach further, faster, deeper, and cheaper than ever before...to connect, compete, and collaborate" innovatively. John Kao has these same forces in mind ...             Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition26 reviews Everett Rogers Free Press, 2003 Diffusion of Innovations--The scientific framework of lessons learned As a physician who has had the pleasure to experience life-changing innovations in his medical career, the chance to read Dr Rogers book on Innovation has been a real delight. Technology has changed so much around us in the last half of the 20th century that we can scarcely describe what life was like before "the innovation". To my friends who happen to be innovators, early adaptors, beta ...             The New Age of Innovation: Driving Cocreated Value Through Global Networks2 reviews C.K. Prahalad, M.S. Krishnan McGraw-Hill, 2008 How to prosper in the "N = 1 and R = G" world How to prosper in the "N = 1 and R = G" world I have read and then reviewed all of C.K. Prahalad's previous books and thus was especially interested in reading this book, co-authored with M.S. Krishnan. As they explain in the Introduction, "We view innovation as shaping consumer expectations as well as responding continually to the changing demands, behaviors, and experiences pf consumers. We ...             The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Defeating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity ...35 reviews Thomas Kelley, Jonathan Littman Doubleday Business, 2005 Best read without memory or desire Wilfred Bion, one of the great psychoanalysts of the last fifty years said that the purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire. By that he meant that when when you listen with memory you're trying to plug someone into an old agenda; when you listen with desire you're trying to plug them into a new agenda. But in neither case are you listening to their agenda. For some ...             The Business of Healthcare Innovation5 reviews Cambridge University Press, 2005 The Business of Healthcare Innovation - Highly Recommended The market dynamics, business models, and corporate strategies of pharma, biotech, genomics, medical device development, and health care information technology are converging. And you better get ready. Written by business gurus at the Wharton School and health industry executives, The Business of Healthcare Innovation provides an invaluable analysis of key business trends in the manufacturing ...             Military Innovation in the Interwar Period8 reviews Cambridge University Press, 1998 Essential Addition to the Study of the Inter-war Period The acclaimed scholarly team of Williamson Murray and Allan R. Millett have edited an anthology of essays encompassing the technological innovations in weaponry during the 1920's and 1930's. These innovations span the research and developments of all the major belligerents that play a major role in the coming global conflict. Each scholar was instructed to compare and contrast his or her topic ...             Innovation Corrupted: The Origins and Legacy of Enron's Collapse Malcolm S. Salter Harvard University Press, 2008 Although much has already been written about the rise and fall of Enron, four important questions remain unanswered: What management behavior and practices led Enron down the path from truly innovative to fraudulent management? How could Enron’s board of directors have failed to detect the business, ethical, and legal risks embedded in the company’s aggressive financial strategies and accounting practices? Why did Enron’s ...             Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns6 reviews Clayton M. Christensen, Curtis W. Johnson, ... McGraw-Hill, 2008 The future of education Administrators, teachers, parents, and policy makers would do well to read Disrupting Class. The authors approach education with the perspective of an outsider - business person, technologist, entrepreneur - but the knowledge and thoughtfulness of an insider. Instead of offering didactic or hubristic "fixes" for education, the book provides a framework for thinking about education that is fresh ...             Harvard Business Review on Innovation8 reviews Clayton M. Christensen, Michael Overdorf, ... Harvard Business School Press, 2001 Good Collection of Articles With a good collection of articles and case studies, the book helps us to recognize and seize innovation opportunities. I certainly recommend this book for executives. Another one that I recommend is Eightstorm: 8-Step Brainstorming for Innovative Managers.             Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction16 reviews Thomas K. McCraw Belknap Press, 2007 Beautifully Paced Biography During my Graduate School days, I took a course on Economic history. It was there that I was introduced to Joseph Schumpeter and his History of Economic Analysis: With a New Introduction. My reaction to it remains the same today as it was then - a masterful piece of scholarship. Thomas McCraw delivers a biography worthy of his subject. Beautifully-paced and throughly-researched, Prophet of ...             Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating And Profiting from Technology19 reviews Henry William Chesbrough Harvard Business School Press, 2005 A "new vision" of the innovation process I recently re-read Henry Chesbrough's Open Business Models and then this book, first published in 2003. In the earlier work, Chesbrough explains that a business model "performs two important functions: it creates value and it captures a portion of that value. It creates value by defining a series of activities from raw materials through to the final consumer that will yield a new product or ...             The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation11 reviews A.G. Lafley, Ram Charan Crown Business, 2008 Remember who your real BOSS is In the early 1990's P&G was the number two laundry company in the world with a 19 per cent share. Today, it has a 34 share - nearly double its next competitor. Not bad, not bad at all. This book will help you understand how this consumer behemoth was able to achieve this result and many others. I will be very surprised if THE GAMECHANGER does not become required reading in many Fortune 500 ...             The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness54 reviews Tom Peters Vintage, 1999 Entrepreneurs --wake up & THINK Peters is definitely one of my favorite authors. His insights on innovation offer me constant inspiration as I write my own newsletter - titled Byvation, which means ... By Way of Innovation. In a dramatic opening, Tom Peters says it's all about "I-N-N-O-V-A-T-I-O-N." Peters is a legendary business guru for good reason, he tells it like it is. In "Circle of Innovation" Peters talks about how ...             Democratizing Innovation10 reviews Eric Von Hippel The MIT Press, 2006 Great ideas on innovation This book is a great read, especially for someone who has not been taught about user innovation and who questions the open source business model. Von Hippel is a pioneer when it comes to user innovation. If you thought that companies come up with winning ideas, or that the only way to make any money on a great idea is to patent it then this book will open your eyes to a much greater world. 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