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Books on Strategy and Innovation

Strategy

Chan, Kim, W. and Renee Mauborgne, Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant,  2005.
Carr, Nicholas, Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage, Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation, 2004.
Christensen, Clayton, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, Harvard Business School Press, 1997.

Christensen, Clayton and Scott Anthony, Seeing What’s Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change, Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation, 2004.

Galpin, Timothy, Making Strategy Work: Building Sustainable Growth Capability, Jossey-Bass, 1997.
Hagel, John and John Seely Brown, The Only Sustainable Edge, Harvard Business School Press, May 2005.
Kaplan, Robert, and David Norton, Alignment: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create Corporate Synergies, Harvard Business School Press, 2006.
Kaplan, Robert, and David Norton, Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets into tangible Outcomes, Harvard Business School Press, 2004.
Kaplan, Robert, and David Norton, The Strategy Focused Organization, Harvard Business School Press, 2001.
Kaplan, Robert, and David Norton, The Balanced Scorecard, Harvard Business School Press, 1996.
McGrath, Michael, Product Strategy for High-Technology Companies: How to Achieve Growth, Competitive Advantage, and Increased Profits, Second Edition, McGrath, 2001. Highly Recommended.
Porter, Michael, Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance, Free Press, 1985. Porter, Michael, Competitive Strategy, Free Press, 1998.
Porter, Michael, Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors, Free Press, 1998.
Schwartz, Peter, The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World, Currency Doubleday, 1991. Highly Recommended.

Papers on Strategy

Highly recommended: Strategic Visioning guides and workshops from The Grove Consultants International. See the National Semiconductor success story for a superb example of a graphic vision story.

Books on Innovation
  Brynjolfsson, Erik and Adam Saunders, Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology Is Reshaping the Economy, MIT Press, 2009
  Davila, Tony, Marc J. Epstein, Robert Shelton, Making Innovation Work: How to Manage it, Measure it, and Profit from it, Wharton School Publishing, 2005
  Friedman, Thomas L., The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, 2007
  Gray, Dave, Sunni Brown and James Macanufo, Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers, 2010
  Hildreth, Paul and Chris Kimble, Knowledge Networks: Innovation Through Communities of Practice, IGI Publishing
  Johansson, Frans, The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts, and Cultures, 2004
  Johnson, Mark W, Seizing the White Space: Business Model Innovation for Growth and Renewal, 2010
  Prahalad, C.K. and M.S. Krishnan, The New Age of Innovation: Driving Cocreated Value Through Global Networks, McGraw-Hill, 2008
  Rogers, Everett M., Diffusion of Innovations, 1962 (3rd ed. 2003)
   
   

 

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