books about: innovator     books:       The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business ...176 reviews Clayton M. Christensen Harper Paperbacks, 2003 Indispensable Reading Every person intimately involved in any organization should read this book. This book changed most management thinking and many organizational structures of corporate America. It should change more. This book should be required reading for anyone involved or studying profit and non-profit organizations. If you have 5 books on your management shelf, this should be one of them.             The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care25 reviews Clayton M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman M.D., ... McGraw-Hill, 2008 A business perspective on the change needed for health care reform According to the author, the current state of the health care industry is not unlike other heavily regulated industries before it, such as telecommunicationsand transportation, where initially providers were centralized and services were affordable only by the higherincome segment. In each case, it was not deregulation that led to change but disruptive innovation that followed it. So the ...             The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth59 reviews Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor Harvard Business Press, 2003 Indispensable Insight into Entrepreneurial Growth This was required reading for an MBA Entrepreneurial Growth class. It quickly became the reference to almost every case that we discusssed. It is one of the best books I've ever read. It completely opened my eyes to a new world. It addresses some of the fundamental questions of an entrepreneur. How can a new business beat the reigning behemoths in an industry? How can the reigning behemoths ...             They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators23 reviews Harold Evans Little, Brown and Company, 2004 Fascinating History! An excellent source of info on how America ingenuity changed America and the planet from early days until now. The section on Bank of America's founder as well as the article on the invention of Levis make history come alive. None of the chapters are boring. Recommended for all ages.             Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns24 reviews Clayton Christensen, Curtis W. Johnson, ... McGraw-Hill, 2008 Fascinating look at disruptive innovation in education The very real value of this useful and, at times, pleasantly surprising book comes from the way the authors apply their expertise in innovation to the field of education. By approaching public education's crisis with new eyes - and conceptualizing education as a product or service like any other - Clayton M. Christensen (The Innovator's Dilemma), Michael B. Horn and Curtis W. Johnson provide ...             One Strategy: Organization, Planning, and Decision Making Steven Sinofsky, Marco Iansiti Wiley, 2009 Learn from the concepts, capabilities, processes, and behaviors that aligned around one strategy with the hard-won, first-person wisdom found in One Strategy. Challenging traditional views of strategy and operational execution, this book-written by Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky with Harvard Business School professor Marco Iansiti-describes how you can drive innovation by connecting the potential of strategic opportunities to the ...             Maya Visual Effects: The Innovator's Guide11 reviews Eric Keller Sybex, 2007 A must have for Maya users. This book is a must have for Maya users who are interest in becoming VFX artists or Generalists. I've bought many Maya books and I must say that I feel I've gotten the biggest bang for my buck with one. Looking forward to Eric Keller's next book. Rudy Sarzo             The Innovator's Toolkit: 50+ Techniques for Predictable and Sustainable Organic Growth25 reviews David Silverstein, Philip Samuel, ... Wiley, 2008 Good Stuff !!! A real Innovator's Toolkit that should be in the backpack of anyone who fancies themself a facilitator or change agent. Chocker-block full of both well-known tools and as well as new ideas and concepts on how to apply them. The why (theory) and how (application/techniques) of each of the of the 50 tools is clearly explained step-by-step. A first-class extra for innovation practitioners and ...             Roger von Oech's Ball of Whacks: A Creativity Tool for Innovators24 reviews Roger Von Oech Creative Whack Company, 2006 My students fight over it!! I'm a high school math teacher who can't keep my Ball of Whacks on my desk at school for long. I bought it last year, and my students went crazy over it! This year's students love it, too. Two comments: a) The kids make any pattern they choose; in other words, they all ignore the booklet that comes with it. However, they drop pieces (accidentally) often; one piece was lost last year under ...             Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking45 reviews Tim Hurson McGraw-Hill, 2007 Practical and easy-to-use advice for better thinking I rarely ask a publisher to send me a book for review. I get more than I can possibly review without asking. But when I saw some of Tim Hurson's comments on Twitter connected to his book, Think Better: an innovator's guide to productive thinking, I knew it was a book I had to read and wanted to review. I was prepared to be impressed, even though I'm very picking about "thinking" books. I've ...             Urban Spacemen and Wayfaring Strangers: Overlooked Innovators and Eccentric Visionaries of '60s Rock6 reviews Richie Unterberger Miller Freeman Books, 2000 a superb book! unterberger is probably my favorite music writer, his tastes most closely resemble my own. he's right when he says that there were many, many great groups in the 60's that DIDN'T make it. there were (in my estimation) very very few truly bad bands in the 60's and early 70's- most groups had something going for them. if you like this era, you should also try mr. unterberger's other book on obscure ...             American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-195011 reviews Alec Wilder Oxford University Press, USA, 1990 4 1/2* Excellent Ref. Book for the Musically Inclined Yes, the man is opinionated, and one may argue with some of his more controversial and unsparing critiques. His analyses are grounded in a thorough understanding of music, and he does not retreat from criticizing the most popular. I think that the whole topic is perhaps more subjective than Wilder lets on, but at least he's forthright about his opinions, and provides hundreds of musical ...             Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built20 reviews Richard S. Tedlow Harper Paperbacks, 2003 I loved this book Very insightful and informative. Very much worth your time to read. I'd love to see follow up with more profiles on prominent business leaders.             The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators2 reviews Charles Landry Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2008 A Must Read for Every Civic Leader This book is a definite must read for every mayor, town council member, governor, and president of any city, state or country in the world. With all the disasters going on in the world, this book is a true gem in that it focuses on solutions for problems (with real case studies cited) and shows not only good ideas, but real, tangible ideas too. The toolkit for urban innovators is an excellent ...             Innovator's Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work (Harvard Business School Press)7 reviews Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson, ... Harvard Business School Press, 2008 Making innovation a regular part of your organization... I've read a number of books on innovation, both on a personal and business level. Always looking to find that "edge"... In the book The Innovator's Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson, Joseph V. Sinfield, and Elizabeth J. Altman, the authors present a methodology for making disruptive innovation part of your company's culture. Along the ...             The Innovator's Dilemma1 review Clayton M. Christensen Perseus Distribution Services, 1997 Excellent Insights! Christensen writes about the failure of good, well-managed companies to stay atop their industries when they are confronted by certain types of disruptive market and technological change. This has happened in industries that move fast and those that move slow, and in manufacturing and service industries. Companies that fell prey to these disruptive changes include Sears, IBM, DEC, Xerox, and ...             Web 2.0 Heroes: Interviews with 20 Web 2.0 Influencers4 reviews Bradley L. Jones Wiley, 2008 More than just Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Heroes presents you with insights from leading companies and sites. Each chapter focuses on an interview with a different person from leading companies and Web sites. You can see the list of such companies and people above. In most cases the interviewee is a person closely related to the internet and/or overall strategy for the company. As such, you may not have heard the person's name, ...             Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution34 reviews Vijay Govindarajan, Chris Trimble Harvard Business Press, 2005 A "must-understand" for leaders concerned with long-term prosperity Many thanks to Vijay Govindarajan (VG) and Chris Trimble for this grand exposition of ideas first shared in the Spring 2005 California Management Review and the May 2005 Harvard Business Review. VG and Trimble's "Forget, Borrow, Learn" framework is the most powerful recipe for corporate reinvention that I have encountered. As other Amazon reviewers have skillfully described the contents of ...             The Art of Product Management: Lessons from a Silicon Valley Innovator7 reviews Rich Mironov BookSurge Publishing, 2008 Read this book! I just finished reading "The Art of Product Management" by Rich Mironov. This book is a compilation of some of Rich's "Sound Bytes" (monthly column on Product Management) organized into the following sections: Falling in Love Organizing your Organization The Almost-New-New Things Getting into Customers' Heads What Should Things Cost You can definitely see Rich's extensive ...             Innovator's Toolkit: 10 Practical Strategies to Help You Develop and Implement Innovation (Harvard Business ... Harvard Business School Press Harvard Business School Press, 2009 The Innovator's Toolkit What are the types of innovation? How can you generate creative ideas for your business? How can you move from ideas to unleashing you innovation to the market? How can you combine your innovation with a strategic plan to move your company forward? Get these questions answered with jargon-free, useable, practical tools and advice. 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