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Updated: December 2007

GENERAL INNOVATION AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT (+ inspiring

innovative thinking)

Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change

(Hardcover) by Clayton M. Christensen (Author), Erik A. Roth (Author), Scott D. Anthony (Author) "The first part of using theory to predict industry change involves understanding when to reasonably expect innovation to lead to the emergence of new companies..." (more) Key Phrases: overshot customers, undershot customers, nonmarket players, United States, New York, University of Phoenix (more...) ISBN-13: 978-1591391852

The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading

Design Firm (Hardcover) by Tom Kelley (Author), Jonathan Littman (Foreword), Tom Peters (Author), Tom Peters (Author) "Innovation wasn't always a hot topic in the Silicon Valley..." (more) ISBN-13: 978-0385499842 Key Phrases: Silicon Valley, Tech Box, The Art of Innovation (more...)

What Customers Want: Using Outcome-Driven Innovation to Create

Breakthrough Products and Services (Hardcover) by Anthony Ulwick (Author), "The first step in the innovation process is to define the innovation strategy..." (more) Key Phrases: The Innovator's Solution, Positioning Current Products, Harvard Business School Press

Making Innovation Work: How to Manage It, Measure It, and Profit from It

(Hardcover) by Tony Davila (Author), Marc J. Epstein (Author), Robert Shelton (Author) "For any organization, innovation represents not only the opportunity to grow and survive but also the opportunity to significantly influence the direction of the industry..." (more) Key Phrases: organizational antibodies, rampant incrementalism, incremental innovation projects, Innovation Matrix, Innovation Climate, Tetra Pak (more...)

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make

Competition Irrelevant (Hardcover) by W. Chan Kim (Author), Renée Mauborgne (Author) "A ONE TIME ACCORDION PLAYER, stilt-walker, and fire-eater, Guy Laliberte is now CEO of Cirque du Soleil, one of Canada's largest cultural exports..." (more) Key Phrases: blue ocean strategy, strategy canvas, compelling tagline, Cirque du Soleil, United States, Southwest Airlines (more...)

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Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking (Hardcover) by Tim Hurson (Author) “Think Better demonstrates how you can start with an intractable technical problem, an unmet consumer need, or a gaping chasm in your business strategy and, by following a clearly defined, practical thinking process, arrive at a robust, innovative solution. Many companies use the Productive Thinking model to generate fresh solutions for tough business problems, and many individuals rely on it to solve pressing personal problems.”

The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative

Thinking (Hardcover) by Roger L. Martin (Author) “Great insights into what it means to be a leader in the increasingly complex and ambiguous world we live in.”

Techonomics: The Theory of Industrial Evolution (Industrial

Innovation) (Hardcover) by H. Lee Martin (Author) Key Phrases: techonomic theory, organizational square, automated bureaucracy, The Theory of Industrial Evolution, Moore's Law, Third Law (more...)

LONG TAIL, THE: WHY THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS IS SELLING LESS OF MORE

(Hardcover) by Chris Anderson (Author) Key Phrases: new tastemakers, unlimited shelf space, niche culture, New York Times, United States, Google Video (more...)

Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out (Hardcover) by Douglas Rushkoff (Author) "There is no Next Big Thing..." (more) Key Phrases: social currency, renaissance person, brand culture, New York, Industrial Age, Wall Street (more...)

The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Defeating the Devil's

Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization (Hardcover) by Thomas Kelley (Author), Jonathan Littman (Author)

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Funky Business: Talent Makes Capital Dance (Paperback) by Jonas Ridderstrale (Author), Kjelle A. Nordstrom (Author)

Karaoke Capitalism: Management For Mankind ("Financial Times") (Paperback) by Jonas Ridderstrale (Author), Kjell A. Nordstrom (Author)

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

(Paperback) by Thomas L. Friedman (Author) Key Phrases: triple convergence, reform retail, work flow software, United States, New York, Berlin Wall (more...)

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Paperback) by Ray Kurzweil (Author) "I am not sure when I first became aware of the Singularity..." (more) Key Phrases: nonbiological portion, nonbiological intelligence, biological human intelligence, Moore's Law, Deep Fritz, Deep Blue (more...)

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback) by Malcolm Gladwell (Author) "In the mid-1990s, the city of Baltimore was attacked by an epidemic of syphilis..." (more) Key Phrases: social epidemics, tipping point, transactive memory, Sesame Street, New York, Paul Revere (more...)

All the Right Moves: A Guide to Crafting Breakthrough Strategy (Hardcover) by Constantinos Markides (Author), Constantinos C. Markides (Author) "In every industry, there are several viable positions that a company can occupy..." (more) Key Phrases: new strategic position, successful strategic innovators, strategic staircase, Edward Jones, Southwest Airlines, People Express (more...)

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

(Hardcover) by Jim Collins (Author) "Good is the enemy of great..." (more) Key Phrases: unsustained comparisons, direct comparison company, red flag mechanisms, Wells Fargo, Fannie Mae, Circuit City (more...)

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The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth

(Hardcover) by Clayton M. Christensen (Author), Michael E. Raynor (Author) "This is a book about how to create new growth in business..." (more) Key Phrases: disruptive growth engine, sustaining innovation relative, new disruptive business, New York, Harvard Business School Press, Wall Street (more...)

The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way

You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials) (Paperback) by Clayton M. Christensen (Author) "WHEN I BEGAN my search for an answer to the puzzle of why the best firms can fail, a friend offered some sage advice..." (more) Key Phrases: value network framework, commercializing disruptive technologies, performance oversupply, Harvard Business School, New York, Trend Report (more...)

The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas,

Concepts, and Cultures (Hardcover) by Frans Johansson (Author) "IN THE SPRING OF 2002, a team of researchers at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, conducted a remarkable experiment..." (more) Key Phrases: intersection hunting, directional ideas, ideas happen, Making Intersectional Ideas Happen, New York, United States (more...)

Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from

Technology (Hardcover) by Henry William Chesbrough (Author) "THE XEROX CORPORATION, the leading copier company, has a storied history of innovation..." (more) Key Phrases: deep vertical integration, henry chesbrough, innovation paradigm, Closed Innovation, Bell Labs, United States (more...)

BUSINESS INNOVATION in the 21st Century (Paperback) by Praveen Gupta (Author)

The Myths of Innovation (Hardcover) by Scott Berkun (Author)

Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want

(Hardcover) by Curtis R. Carlson (Author), William W. Wilmot (Author)

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Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Find and Execute Your Company's Next Big

Growth Strategy (Hardcover) by Erich Joachimsthaler (Author) Key Phrases: mand landscape, growth platforms, brand identity system, Deutsche Telekom, State Street, United States (more...)

Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing

(Paperback) by Henry Petroski (Author) Key Phrases: piping loop, cantilever bridge, San Francisco, New York, Golden Gate (more...)

Invention and Evolution: Design in Nature and Engineering

(Paperback) by Michael French (Author) "Suppose we are asked which of these three is the odd one out, a waterfall, a buttercup and a steam locomotive..." (more) Key Phrases: replicative methods, unlimited rotation, nesting order, New York, Cambridge University Press, New Scientist (more...)

Inventing Modern America: From the Microwave to the Mouse

(Hardcover) by David E. Brown (Author), Lester C. Thurow (Foreword), James Burke (Introduction)

VISIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: A Century Of Vital Debate About Machines

Systems And The Human World (The Sloan Technology Series)

(Hardcover) by Richard Rhodes (Author) "Journalist Mark Sullivan's six-volume compendium Our Times chronicles the first decades of the new century from the perspective of the late 1920s..." (more) Key Phrases: technological status, mortality improvements, machine civilization, United States, New York, Miss Glory (more...)

Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction (Paperback) by James E. McClellan III (Author), Harold Dorn (Author) "The twentieth century witnessed a fateful change in the relationship between science and society..." (more) Key Phrases: United States, Middle Ages, Royal Society (more...)

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Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World

[ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback) by Margaret J Wheatley (Author) "It has taken us a long while to get here-a nine-mile hike up a gradual ascent over rocky paths..." (more) Key Phrases: machine imagery, quantum world, reaction channels, Chaos Game

TRIZ AND SYSTEMATIC INNOVATION

The Innovation Algorithm By G. Altshuller, Technical Innovation Center; 312 pages, March 1999. ISBN: 0964074044

One of the classical works of Genrich Altshuller, originator of TRIZ. It was first was published in Russian in 1972, and since has become the best presentation on key TRIZ ideas. Although presents the TRIZ techniques as they were in the past, still the best text on the underlying TRIZ philosophy.

TRIZ: The Right Solution at the Right Time: A Guide to Innovative Problem

Solving By Yuri Salamatov, (Valeri Souchkov, ed.), Insytec B.V., The Netherlands, 1999, 256 pages, ISBN 9080468010.

With 112 examples, explains TRIZ concepts in a logical way, from simple to complex. Might be found somewhat difficult to read due to a large volume of specific information from different areas. Was selected by Nikkei Business Publications as a primary TRIZ textbook for Japan.

Hands-on Systematic Innovation for Technology and Engineering By Darrell Mann, CREAX Press, 2002, 464 pages. ISBN: 4-902716-00-3

A comprehensive compilation of TRIZ methods and tools with case studies embedded throughout the body of work. This book brings TRIZ into the 21st century with Mann’s unique view of systematic innovation. This book is very detailed and offers many valuable tables and charts.

Hands-on Systematic Innovation for Business and Management By Darrell Mann, IFR Press, 2004, 539 pages. ISBN: 1-898546-73-8 An adaptation of the previous book for technology and engineering to business and management.

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Engineering of Creativity: Introduction to TRIZ Methodology of Inventive

Problem Solving

By Semyon Savransky, CRC Press, 394 pages, 2000.

This book is an attempt to comprehensively present TRIZ from a viewpoint of a scientist. Provides overview of modern TRIZ and its underlying principles. More a collection of papers than a textbook, for advanced reader.

And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared: TRIZ, the Theory of Inventive Problem

Solving

By G. Altshuller, Paperback 2nd edition, May 1996, Technical Innovation Center; ISBN: 0964074028. An excellent book by Altshuller which in a very popular way explains basic principles of inventive thinking. A good book to start journey to TRIZ.

40 Principles: TRIZ Keys to Technical Innovation By G. Altshuller, Y. Fedoseev, Paperback - 141 pages, 1st edition Vol 1, Technical Innovation Center, Inc.; ISBN: 0964074036.

A book presenting one of the basic and earliest TRIZ techniques: 40 inventive principles with explanations and examples written in an easy to read way.

Innovation on Demand: New Product Development Using TRIZ By Fey, V.R. and E.I. Rivin, 2005: Cambridge University Press. 256. ISBN 0521826209

This book explains how the TRIZ methodology harnesses creative principles extracted from thousands of successful patented inventions to help find more innovative solutions to design problems. Written for practicing engineers, product managers, technology managers and engineering students, it demonstrates how to use TRIZ tools.

Improve Your Thinking: Substance-Field Analysis

The book that enables you to use your knowledge more effectively Author: Iouri Belski Take control of your knowledge and generate more winning ideas! This book introduces the reader to contemporary Substance-Field Analysis - one of the powerful tools of TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving). Using this book you will learn: To model a real situation with substances and fields and to identify the conflicts which lead to the problem at hand ; To accurately use 5 model solutions to resolve every conflict identified ; To employ the 8 fields of MATCEMIB to generate ideas ; To fully utilize the resources of your knowledge in generating ideas ; To consider all the ideas generated together and to synthesize them into solution concepts ; To employ Substance-Field Analysis for situations with humans ; To apply Substance-Field Analysis to the area of your expertise

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Creativity As an Exact Science (Pocket Mathematical Library,)

(Hardcover) by Altshuller (Author) "Invention is man's oldest occupation..." (more) Key Phrases: original technical system, solving inventive problems, inventive creativity, Candidate of Tech, Public Institutes of Inventive Creativity The first book of Altshuller translated to English. Gives a comprehensive overview of basic TRIZ foundations.

Simplified TRIZ: New Problem Solving Applications for Engineers and

Manufacturing Professionals, Second Edition (Hardcover) by Kalevi Rantanen (Author), Ellen Domb (Author)

Introduction to TRIZ which offers a practical “how to” guide with basic TRIZ techniques.

Insourcing Innovation: How to Transform Business as Usual into Business as

Exceptional (Paperback) by David Silverstein (Author), Neil DeCarlo (Author), Michael Slocum (Author) "The act of innovation is an act conceiving the future, which is what great companies do..." (more) Key Phrases: structured innovation, inventive principles, contradiction matrix, Six Sigma, Insourcing Innovation, Peter Drucker (more...)

CREATIVITY

Creativity Today

Igor Byttebier, Ramon Vullings, Godelieve Spaas BIS publishers, 2007 If you want to learn how to generate and enrich ideas more easily. If you want to become an inspiring coach for creative sessions. If you want to grasp the do’s and don’ts of applying creativity in organisations. If you want to find inspiration in recent cases of creative organisational change. It’s all in the book Creativity Today. This book is your manual for applying creativity in business, education, development and many more areas. The authors have worked with creativity in all kinds of organizations in over twenty countries. They were able to translate all these years of experience into a creative book concept. Creativity Today is clear, fun and practical. It will be your personal coach, providing you with exercises, inspiration and knowledge that you can apply immediately.

Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step (Perennial Library) (Paperback) by Edward De Bono (Author) "The need for lateral thinking arises from the way the mind works..." (more) Key Phrases: apple picking machine, cliché unit, named unit system (more...)

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The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills: Unlocking the Creativity and

Innovation in You and Your Team [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback) by Paul Sloane (Author) Key Phrases: lateral leader, lateral thinking puzzles, conventional leader, Henry Ford, Richard Branson, United States (more...)

Six Thinking Hats (Paperback) by Edward de Bono (Author) "An antelope grazing in Africa hears a sound in the grass..." (more) Key Phrases: yellow hat thinking, blue hat thinker, green hat thinking, United States (more...)

Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius (Paperback) by Michael Michalko (Author) "How do geniuses come up with ideas?..." (more) Key Phrases: imaginary excursion, major cause categories, structured imagination, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, Walt Disney (more...)

How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day

(Paperback) by Michael J. Gelb (Author) "the idea that the verbal and mathematical reasoning skills measured by IQ tests (and SATs) are the sine qua nons of intelligence..." (more) Key Phrases: seeing exercise, mind mapping, Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, The Last Supper (more...)

The Power of Impossible Thinking: Transform the Business of Your Life and the

Life of Your Business (Hardcover) by Jerry Wind (Author), Colin Crook (Author), Robert Gunther (Author) "It's midnight, and you hear a loud radio in the apartment downstairs..." (more) Key Phrases: adaptive disconnects, adaptive experimentation, old mental models, United States, New York, Cold War (more...)

Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (Paperback) by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Author) "This book is about creativity, based on histories of contempo rar people who know about it firsthand..." (more) Key Phrases: studying creativity, most creative persons, creative individuals, World War, United States, New York (more...)

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Design Engineering: A Manual for Enhanced Creativity (Hardcover) by W. Ernst Eder (Author), Stanislav Hosnedl (Author) Key Phrases: constructional structure, constructional parts, assisting inputs, New York, Practical Studies, Output Design (more...)