Here are 50 books I’ve found to be indispensable as an Innovation Practitioner
What Customers Want – Tony Ulwick
The Innovator’s Dilemma – Clayton Christensen
The Innovator’s Solution – Clayton Christensen & Michael Raynor
Competing Against Luck – Clayton Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon & David S. Duncan
The Innovator’s DNA – Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen & Clayton Christensen
Seeing What’s Next – Clayton Christensen, Scott Anthony & Erik Roth
Harvard Business Review – On Innovation – Multiple Authors
Innovation to the Core – Peter Skarzynski & Rowan Gibson
Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want – Curtis Carlson & William Wilmot
The Innovator’s Field Guide – Peter Skarzynski & David Crosswhite
Strategic Innovation – Nancy Tennant Snyder & Deborah Duarte
Service Innovation: How to go from Customer Needs to Breakthrough Services – Lance Bettencourt
The Other Side of Innovation – Vijay Govindarajan & Chris Trimble
Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators – Vijay Govindarajan & Chris Trimble
Beyond the Idea: How to Execute Innovation in any Organization – Vijay Govindarajan & Chris Trimble
Where Good Ideas Come From – Steven Johnson
How Breakthroughs Happen – Andrew Hargadon
Leading the Revolution: Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Life – Gary Hamel
Ten Types of Innovation – Doblin
Ten Faces of Innovation – Tom Kelley and Jonathan Littman
Design Thinking: Design Thinking: Integrating Innovation, Customer Experience, and Brand Value – Thomas Lockwood
The Three Rules: How Exceptional Companies Think – Michael Raynor & Mumtaz Ahmed
The Innovator’s Way – Robert Dunham & John Seely Brown
Design Driven Innovation – Roberto Verganti
Innovate Like Edison – Michael J. Gelb & Sarah Miller Caldicott
Edison and the Business of Innovation – Andre Millard
Edison on Innovation – Alan Axelrod
Lightening in a Bottle: The Proven System to Create New Ideas and Products That Work – David Minter
Making Innovation Work – Tony Davila, Marc J. Epstein & Robert D. Shelton
The Innovator’s Manifesto – Michael Raynor
The Circle of Innovation: You Can’t Shrink Your Way to Greatness – Tom Peters
Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others – David Kord Murray
The Myths of Innovation – Scott Berkun
Robert’s Rules of Innovation – Robert F. Brands
The Rules of Innovation – Bart Huthwaite
Closing the Innovation Gap – Judy Estrin
The Reinventors: How Extraordinary Companies Pursue Radical Continuous Change – Jason Jennings
Re-th!nk – Ric Merrifield
Innovation You – Jeff DeGraff
Flash Foresight – David Burrus & John David Mann
The Science of Serendipity: How to Unlock the Promise of Innovation – Matt Kingdon
Mindset – Carol S. Dweck
Look @ More: A Proven Approach to Innovation, Growth and Change – Andy Stefanovich
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action – Simon Sinek
Think Better: An Innovator’s Guide to Productive Thinking – Tim Hurson
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die – Chip Heath & Dan Heath
Switch: How to Change Things when Change is Hard – Chip Heath & Dan Heath
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Live and Work – Chip Heath & Dan Heath
Contagious: Why Things Catch On – Jonah Berger
Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries – Peter Sims
I know I’ve probably left some great ones off this list – So let me know thoughts and share your favorites!
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