Innovation Reading

Recently I wrote about how I see a gap between how I view innovation and how it is generally being discussed here in the Netherlands. I also mentioned I am currently reading up on innovation and I thought I'd share some of my reading list with you.

It was Edna Pasher who pointed me to Christensen when we met at KM Europe 2003, and as a result of that I read Innovator's Dilemma and after that Innovator's Solution. I am currently rereading Innovator's Solution while making a summary and model out of it. I read a number of article lauding this book and saying it was a good guide for action, but I think it isn't. There are loads of tips and motivations for action in it, but there is no overview to actually use when you start to act. So I set out to write that summary, as I could not find one on the net.

Innovator's Dilemma

Innovator's Solution

Next to that Carla Verwijs recently pointed me to a reading list of books for 2006 of the Innovation Book Club, that I took as a starting point.

So I ordered the first four titles in the list, and they are now on my bed side table for reading:

Leader's Guide to Storytelling by Stephen Denning

How Breakthroughs Happen by Andrew Hargadon

Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne

Ten Faces of Innovation by Tom Kelley and Jonathan Littman

I'll try and discuss these books as I finish them.