60 Leaders on Innovation - Book References

Producing the ’60 Leaders on Innovation’ eBook was a great experience - an initiative that connected 60 leaders across the globe who exchanged their thought leadership on innovation. It also produced a very interesting list of books on innovation: In this article, we present 39 essential innovation books -as referenced by the 60 top innovators. Here is the list, in alphabetical order.

  1. Accelerate - John Kotter (2014)

  2. Building a Culture of Innovation: A Practical Framework for Placing Innovation at the Core of Your Business - Cris Beswick, Derek Bishop, Jo Geraghty

  3. Business Model Generation - Alexander Osterwalder Yves Pigneur (2010)

  4. Collaboration Explained - Jean Tabaka (2006)

  5. Cracking the Curiosity Code: The Key to Unlocking Human Potential - Diane Hamilton (2019)

  6. Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver - Johanna Rothman (2017)

  7. Creating Innovative Products and Services: The FORTH Innovation Method, Gijs van Wulfen (2016)

  8. Design a Better Business: New Tools, Skills, and Mindset for Strategy and Innovation Paperback – Patrick Van Der Pijl, Justin Lokitz, Lisa Kay Solomon, Erik van der Pluijm, Maarten van Lieshout (2016)

  9. Designing for Growth - Jeanne Liedtka, Tim Ogilvie (2011)

  10. Digital Darwinism: Survival of the Fittest in the Age of Business Disruption (Kogan Page Inspire) - Tom Goodwin (2018)

  11. Driving Digital: The Leader's Guide to Business Transformation Through Technology - Isaac Sacolick (2017)

  12. Eat, Sleep, Innovate: How to Make Creativity an Everyday Habit Inside Your Organization - Scott D. Anthony (2020)

  13. Effectuation elements of entrepreneurial expertise - Saras D. Sarasvathy (2008)

  14. Flash Foresight - Daniel Burrus (2011)

  15. Flash Foresight: See the Invisible to Do the Impossible - Daniel Burrus (Author), John David Mann (2011)

  16. GInI Enterprise Innovation Architecture

  17. How to take the measure of innovation, McKinsey & Company, Podcast - Guttorm Aase, Sri Swaminathan, Sean Brown & Erik Roth (October 8, 2018)

  18. Innovation for the Fatigued: How to Build a Culture of Deep Creativity (Kogan Page Inspire) - Alf Rehn

  19. Innovation Lab Excellence: Digital Transformation from Within - Richard Turrin (2019)

  20. Innovator’s Dilemma - Clayton Christensen (2011)

  21. Jobs to be Done: Theory to Practice - Tony Ulwick (2016)

  22. Oslo Manual 2018 - Guidelines for Collecting, Reporting and Using Data on Innovation, 4th Edition – OECD (2018)

  23. Secrets of success for family businesses in the new era - Marica Labrou

  24. Taking the measure of innovation, McKinsey Quarterly - Guttorm Aase, Sri Swaminathan & Erik Roth (April 20, 2018)

  25. Testing Business Ideas - Alexander Osterwalder, David Bland (2019)

  26. The 10x Growth Machine: How Established Companies Create New Waves of Growth, Misha De Sterke (2019)

  27. The affordable loss principle - Nicholas Dew, Saras D. Sarasvathy (2009)

  28. The Anticipatory Organization: Turn Disruption and Change into Opportunity and Advantage - Daniel Burrus (2017)

  29. The Big Data Opportunity in our Driverless Future Paperback, Evangelos Simoudis (2017)

  30. The Expertise Economy: How the Smartest Companies Use Learning to Engage, Compete and Succeed - David Blake, Kelly Palmer (2018)

  31. The Goal - Eliyahu Goldratt (1984)

  32. The Innovation Mode: How to Transform Your Organization into an Innovation Powerhouse - George Krasadakis (2020)

  33. The Other Side of Growth: An Innovator's Responsibilities in an Emerging World - GInI Global Innovation Institute (2020)

  34. The Phoenix Project - Gene Kim (2013)

  35. The Real Startup Book: Find the Right Product for the Right Customers - Kromatic (n.d.)

  36. Truth from the Valley: A Practical Primer on Future IT Management Trends - Mark Settle (2020)

  37. What Customers Want: Using Outcome-Driven Innovation to Create Breakthrough Products and Services - Tony Ulwick (2005)

  38. Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies - Cesar Hidalgo (2015)

  39. Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future - Peter Thiel (2014)




George Krasadakis

George is a hands-on Technology & Innovation Leader and Consultant on the corporate innovation process and architecture. He has more than two decades of experience in technology startups, consulting firms, and big-tech companies - including Microsoft (European Development Center) and Accenture (Global Center for Innovation).

https://www.theinnovationmode.com/george-krasadakis
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