Best Innovation Books

Explore the best innovation books to read A curated list of recommendations, reaching from amazon best sellers to secret tips. From Peter Drucker to Bill Gates or Ken Auletta. Including some of the most sold texts about innovation strategy and the lean startup.

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Practical Innovation in Government

Practical Innovation in Government

This book is a guide to improving government efficiency through front-line-driven change led by supervisors and low-level managers.

Invention and Innovation

Invention and Innovation

Vaclav Smil's latest book looks at the history of human invention and innovation, and why some inventions fail while others become disasters.

The Human Side of Innovation: The Power of People in Love with People

The Human Side of Innovation: The Power of People in Love with People

Porcini shows that the key to real, world-changing innovation is to put people first—not only the people we innovate for but also the people who lead the innovation process.

A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing: Advice from Leading Experts in the Field

A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing: Advice from Leading Experts in the Field

This book explains how to use the power of the internet to build and innovate in order to introduce a consumer democracy that has never existed before.

5 Ideas A Day eBook

5 Ideas A Day eBook

5 Ideas A Day eBook – What happens when you come up with 5 ideas for 365 days? What’s included:🚀 1825 ideas💡 Tips and advice for generating ideas.

A compendium of innovation methods

A compendium of innovation methods

Each section gives a simple introduction to the method and describes Nesta’s work in relation to it. In each case we have also provided a link to further relevant resources.

Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life

Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life

Alchemy: HOW DOES MAGIC HAPPEN? The Ogilvy advertising legend--’one of the leading minds in the world of branding’ (NPR)--explores the art and science of conjuring irresistible products and ideas.

Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century

Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century

Ask your developer - The landscape has shifted from the classic build vs. buy question, to one of build vs. die. Companies have to get this right to survive. But how do they make this transition?

60 Leaders on Innovation

60 Leaders on Innovation

Free copy of the ’60 Leaders on innovation’ e-book - a unique collection of thought leadership and actionable insights on innovation.

Average Joe: Be the Silicon Valley Tech Genius

Average Joe: Be the Silicon Valley Tech Genius

Average Joe: Be the Silicon Valley Tech Genius - The book covers numerous tech entrepreneurial founders and software developers, and the exciting brands or products that they created.

Billion Dollar Burger

Billion Dollar Burger

The riveting story of the entrepreneurs and renegades fighting to bring labgrown meat to the world.

Beyond The Obvious

Beyond The Obvious

In his award winning book, Beyond the Obvious, McKinney dispels the myth that you have to be born with the gift of creativity and innovation.

Big Little Breakthroughs: How Small, Everyday Innovations Drive Oversized Results

Big Little Breakthroughs: How Small, Everyday Innovations Drive Oversized Results

The pressure to generate big ideas can feel overwhelming. We know that bold innovations are critical, but when it comes to breakthrough thinking, we often freeze up.

Blue Ocean Shift

Blue Ocean Shift

Kim and Mauborgne show you how to move beyond competing, inspire your people's confidence, and seize new growth.

Blue Ocean Strategy

Blue Ocean Strategy

Challenge everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success and use this book as a handy tool.

Business Model Innovation Strategy: Transformational Concepts and Tools for Entrepreneurial Leaders

Business Model Innovation Strategy: Transformational Concepts and Tools for Entrepreneurial Leaders

The most comprehensive, global guide to business model design and innovation for academic and business audiences.

Business Model Generation

Business Model Generation

Read this handbook for visionaries and game changers to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises.

Change by Design

Change by Design

A book explaining design thinking, the collaborative process by which the designer's sensibilities and methods are employed.

Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice

Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice

How do companies know how to grow? How can they create products that they are sure customers want to buy?

Challenging the Innovation Paradigm

Challenging the Innovation Paradigm

Innovation is almost always seen as a ’good thing’. Challenging the Innovation Paradigm is a critical analysis of the innovation frenzy and contemporary innovation research.

Creating Innovation Spaces: Impulses for Start-ups and Established Companies in Global Competition

Creating Innovation Spaces: Impulses for Start-ups and Established Companies in Global Competition

This book offers fresh impulses from different industries on how to deal with innovation processes. Authors from different backgrounds share their experiences with enabling and managing innovation.

Creative Confidence

Creative Confidence

A powerful and compelling book on unleashing the creativity that lies within each and every one of us.

Crossing the Chasm

Crossing the Chasm

Moore shows that in the Technology Adoption Life Cycle there is a vast gap between the early adopters and the early majority. The challenge for innovators and marketers is to narrow this gap.

Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector: Public Management and Change

Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector: Public Management and Change

In this book, Jacob Torfing explores collaborative innovation as a way for public and private stakeholders to break the impasse.

Design Thinking for Beginners

Design Thinking for Beginners

Are you working in an innovative environment and looking for ways to generate ideas in a structured way? Use design thinking.

Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean

Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean

To date, the literature on innovation has focused on either radical, technology-driven innovation or incremental, market-pulled innovation.

Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns (Clayton Christensen et al.)

Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns (Clayton Christensen et al.)

Selected as one of the ’Best Books on Innovation, 2008’ by BusinessWeek magazine - a well thought-through proposal for using technology to better serve students.

Digital Goddess: The Unfiltered Lessons of a Female Entrepreneur

Digital Goddess: The Unfiltered Lessons of a Female Entrepreneur

In Digital Goddess, Montgomery-Brown—founder of Big Think shares her story in an entertaining and educational light.

Diffusion of Innovations

Diffusion of Innovations

Professor Rogers explains how new ideas spread via communication channels over time. Such innovations are initially perceived as uncertain and even risky.

Eat, Sleep, Innovate: How to Make Creativity an Everyday Habit Inside Your Organization

Eat, Sleep, Innovate: How to Make Creativity an Everyday Habit Inside Your Organization

Most would admit they've failed to create truly innovative cultures. Theres a better way. And it all starts with the power of habit.

Empowering the Great Energy Transition: Policy for a LowCarbon Future

Empowering the Great Energy Transition: Policy for a LowCarbon Future

At a time when climatechange deniers hold the reins of power in the United States and international greenhouse gas negotiations continue at a slow crawl, what options are available to cities, companies, and consumers?

Everybody Wants to Rule the World: Surviving and Thriving in a World of Digital Giants

Everybody Wants to Rule the World: Surviving and Thriving in a World of Digital Giants

Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Ultimately, you will understand how the business world is changing and how to adapt now to stay relevant and in demand.

Experiencing Design: The Innovator’s Journey

Experiencing Design: The Innovator’s Journey

Ultimately, innovators need to be someone new to create something new. This book shows you how to use design thinking to make this happen.

Exponential Organizations

Exponential Organizations

Learn how any company, from a startup to a multinational, can become an Exponential Organization and grow to the next level.

Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value

Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value

To remain competitive in today’s marketplace, companies must adopt a culture of customer-centric practices that focus on outcomes rather than outputs.

Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business

Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business

The epic disruption of the ad business (and Everything Else) - few industries have been affected as strongly by the digital age

42 Insights and Interviews with Influencers, Startups, Investors about the cities of the future.

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don’t

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don’t

How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?

Gigged: The End of the Job and the Future of Work

Gigged: The End of the Job and the Future of Work

The fulltime job is disappearing is landing the right gig the new American Dream?

Googled: The End of the World As We Know It

Googled: The End of the World As We Know It

The fullest account yet of the rise of one of the most profitable, most powerful, and oddest businesses the world has ever seen.

Handbook of Innovation Indicators and Measurement

Handbook of Innovation Indicators and Measurement

This Handbook comprehensively examines indicators and statistical measurement related to innovation.

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Business Model Innovation

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Business Model Innovation

Rethink how your organization creates, delivers, and captures value--or risk becoming irrelevant.

Healthcare Disrupted: Next Generation Business Models and Strategies

Healthcare Disrupted: Next Generation Business Models and Strategies

Healthcare Disrupted captures this pivotal point in time to give executives and senior managers across medical companies an opportunity to step back and consider the changing landscape.

Healthovate gathers vignettes from more than fifty innovative organizations whose specific breakthroughs are dramatically changing the way people receive and use products and services that enrich their health.

How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom

How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom

Building on his national bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles the history of innovation, and how we need to change our thinking on the subject.

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations.

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

While some products immediately gain traction, others struggle to keep customers satisfied. Why is that? Hooked explains how to build products that customers love.

How To Come Up With Great Ideas and Actually Make Them Happen

How To Come Up With Great Ideas and Actually Make Them Happen

This book will help you achieve ambitious visions for learning through swift innovation. We will borrow from the people who invent what we all end up using tomorrow, create much from very little.

Innovate the Pixar Way: Business Lessons from the World’s Most Creative Corporate Playground

Innovate the Pixar Way: Business Lessons from the World’s Most Creative Corporate Playground

Readers of this concise and accessible book will learn how to apply Pixar’s secrets of success, which include the company’s ability to turn visions into clear directives.

How to get Ideas

How to get Ideas

How to Get Ideas shows you - no matter your age or skill, your job or training - how to come up with more ideas, faster and easier.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Read this book to understand innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline (Peter Drucker).

Innovation, Competition & ...

Innovation, Competition & ...

Examine issues regarding the collaborative use of Intellectual Property and its impact in the innovation process.

Innovation in Education: Lessons from Pioneers Around the World

Innovation in Education: Lessons from Pioneers Around the World

Lets explore the work of 16 pioneers around the world who have developed new, effective approaches to education that work at scale.

Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching

Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching

This Journal publishes multidisciplinary papers on innovation in language learning and teaching exploring new approaches from a learner-centered perspective.

Innovation Lab Ebook

Innovation Lab Ebook

This ebook describes what an innovation lab is, why it is important and how it can be implemented.

Innovation in Real Places

Innovation in Real Places

Buy innovation in real places - A challenge to prevailing ideas about innovation and a guide to identifying the best growth strategy for your community.

Innovation Project Management: Methods, Case Studies, and Tools for Managing Innovation Projects

Innovation Project Management: Methods, Case Studies, and Tools for Managing Innovation Projects

Actionable tools, processes and metrics for successfully managing innovation projects

Innovation Lab Excellence: Digital Transformation from Within

Innovation Lab Excellence: Digital Transformation from Within

This book examines in detail, the conditions and practices necessary for an innovation lab.

Innovation Strategies in the Food Industry: Tools for Implementation

Innovation Strategies in the Food Industry: Tools for Implementation

An indispensable resource for the food industry to introduce innovations in the market, stand out from the competition and satisfy consumer demands

Innovation is not enough: climates for initiative and psychological safety, process innovations, and firm performance

Innovation is not enough: climates for initiative and psychological safety, process innovations, and firm performance

Innovation is not enough review - This paper contributes to the discussion on contingencies of process innovations by focusing on and introducing organizational-level constructs of climate for initiative and psychological safety.

Innovation Sucks!: Time to Think Differently

Innovation Sucks!: Time to Think Differently

This book challenges some of the ‘ingrained truths’ of innovation and suggests a different approach.

Innovation Thinking Methods for the Modern Entrepreneur

Innovation Thinking Methods for the Modern Entrepreneur

Building ’step-function’ better things is going to be every innovator’s job the next few years. This book introduces the framework that can help you find those solutions simply and reliably

Innovation Tools: The most successful techniques to innovate cheaply and effectively

Innovation Tools: The most successful techniques to innovate cheaply and effectively

The #1 Best Selling Innovation Book On Kindle. Innovation is not just a methodology but a product of hard work and careful risk management.

This bestselling business book serves as both visionary guide and practical toolkit on how to approach the difficult yet crucial work of leading change in any type of organization.

Innovative Ninja : A STEAM Book for Kids About Ideas and Imagination

Innovative Ninja : A STEAM Book for Kids About Ideas and Imagination

Innovative Ninja shares how we can become more innovative by using the 3 Is. Find out what happens in this STEAM book about imagination and ideas.

Inside Your Customer’s Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions

Inside Your Customer’s Imagination: 5 Secrets for Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, and Solutions

Inside Your Customer’s Imagination - Organizations need to offer customers breakthrough products, services, and solutions to effectively compete in today’s innovation-hungry economy.

Leading Pharmaceutical Innovation: Trends and Drivers for Growth in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Leading Pharmaceutical Innovation: Trends and Drivers for Growth in the Pharmaceutical Industry

This book investigates and highlights a set of proactive strategies aimed at generating sustainable competitive advantage. It thereby focuses on three sources of pharmaceutical innovation.

Leading Digital: Turning Technology into Business Transformation

Leading Digital: Turning Technology into Business Transformation

Become a Digital Master - No Matter What Business You’re In

Making Ideas Happen

Making Ideas Happen

Edison famously said that genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration. According to Belsky, the capacity to make ideas happen can be developed by anyone willing to develop their organizational habits.

Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality

Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard. This book helps you with the hard part.

Meaningful: The Story of Ideas That Fly Kindle Edition

Meaningful: The Story of Ideas That Fly Kindle Edition

Our ideas fly when we show others their wings. Jiwa explains a whole new way to innovate and change the world.

Managing Innovation

Managing Innovation

Managing Innovation is an established, bestselling text for MBA, MSc and advanced undergraduate courses on innovation management.

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

Made to Stick review - This book shows us the vital principles of winning ideas—and tells us how we can apply these rules to making our own message.

Measuring Innovation: A New Perspective

Measuring Innovation: A New Perspective

Measuring Innovation is a major step towards evidencebased innovation policy making. It complements traditional “positioning”type indicators with ones that show how innovation is, or could be, linked to policy.

Meeting the Innovation Challenge

Meeting the Innovation Challenge

Meeting the Innovation Challenge offers a new way to look at creative leadership that integrates both leadership and management.

More than just luck: Innovation in humanitarian action ALNAP

More than just luck: Innovation in humanitarian action ALNAP

This report presents the synthesised findings from 15 case studies to define and understand what successful innovation looks like in the humanitarian sector.

Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price

Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price

Many companies have come to accept that a high failure rate, and the billions of dollars lost annually, is just the cost of doing business. Monetizing Innovations argues that this is tragic, wasteful, and wrong.

Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm

Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm

Open Innovation describes an emergent model of innovation in which firms draw on research and development that may lie outside their own boundaries.

Open Innovation Results: Going Beyond the Hype and Getting Down to Business

Open Innovation Results: Going Beyond the Hype and Getting Down to Business

Open Innovation Results offers a cleareyed view of the challenges and realities that limit the ability of organizations to create and profit from innovation.

Measuring Innovation in Education

Measuring Innovation in Education

The ability to measure innovation is essential to an improvement strategy in education.

Outcomes Over Output: Why customer behavior is the key metric for business success

Outcomes Over Output: Why customer behavior is the key metric for business success

In the old days, when we made physical products, it wasn’t so hard to set project goals. But in today’s service and software-driven world, ’done’ is less obvious.

Pirates In The Navy: How Innovators Lead Transformation

Pirates In The Navy: How Innovators Lead Transformation

Most intrapreneurs recognise that innovation can’t be carried out as a series of oneoff projects but that innovation has to happen continously. How can we achieve this?

Process Innovation in the Global Fashion Industry

Process Innovation in the Global Fashion Industry

This book provides a comprehensive examination of process innovations occurring in the global fashion industry, with a focus on fashion brands from USA, Italy, and Japan.

Product Development and Management Body of Knowledge: A Guidebook for Training and Certification

Product Development and Management Body of Knowledge: A Guidebook for Training and Certification

Product Development and Management Body of Knowledge - examples of the specific ways in which fundamental principles are applied to a range of product and service development situations.

Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works

Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works

This is a playbook for winning. Lafley and Martin have created a set of five essential strategic choices that, when addressed in an integrated way, will move you ahead of your competitors.

Reinventing Organizations

Reinventing Organizations

Bring meaning and inspiration into your organization with this practical tools for contemporary forms of organizing and leading.

Rework shows you the way you will learn how to be more productive, how to get exposure without breaking the bank, and tons more counterintuitive ideas that will inspire and provoke you.

Reframe - Shift the Way You Work, Innovate, and Think

Reframe - Shift the Way You Work, Innovate, and Think

Reframe Review - Why isn’t innovation happening? Why do you have UX issues? Why aren’t customers in love with your brand? Mona Patels book thinks it is because the problems are poorly defined.

Social Innovation How Societies Find the Power to Change

Social Innovation How Societies Find the Power to Change

Weaving together history, ideas, policy and practice, the book shows how social innovation is now coming of age, offering a comprehensive view of what can be done to solve the global social challenges we face.

Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points

Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points

The first prescriptive, innovative guide to seeing inflection points before they happen—and how to harness these disruptive influences to give your company a strategic advantage.

Running Lean Review - What we need is a systematic process for quickly vetting product ideas and raising our odds of success. That’s the promise of Running Lean.

Sustainable Innovation: Strategy, Process and Impact

Sustainable Innovation: Strategy, Process and Impact

The most important theme of the discourse on sustainable development and sustainability challenges concerns the relationship between innovation and sustainability.

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

Sprint book review - From three partners at Google Ventures, a unique five-day process for solving tough problems, proven at more than a hundred companies.

The Art of Innovation

The Art of Innovation

A story about a wildly imaginative company to reveal the strategies and secrets it uses to turn out hit after hit.

Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet

Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet

How solar could spark a cleanenergy transition through transformative innovation: creative financing, revolutionary technologies, and flexible energy systems.

The Business of Healthcare Innovation

The Business of Healthcare Innovation

The Business of Healthcare Innovation is a wideranging analysis of business trends in the manufacturing segment of the healthcare industry.

Ten Types of Innovation: The Discipline of Building Breakthroughs

Ten Types of Innovation: The Discipline of Building Breakthroughs

Using a list of more than 2,000 successful innovations, the authors applied a proprietary algorithm and determined ten meaningful categories of innovation.

The Customer-Driven Playbook

The Customer-Driven Playbook

Many product developers wish they could work more like a startup, with small, nimble teams capable of making quick decisions.

The Corporate Startup

The Corporate Startup

A playbook to turn your business into an innovation engine.

The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work

A new book that provides a fresh view on how to cultivate creativity in the workplace.