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Strategy & Innovation
Books by Innosight authors allow you to develop a deeper understanding of the business model and philosophy that underpins our leadership in innovation.
  • Seizing the White Space: Business Model Innovation for Growth and Renewal

    Harvard Business Publishing, February 2010. Foreword written by A.G. Lafley. A practical approach to fuel game changing growth through business model innovation. Transformational new growth remains the Holy Grail for many organizations. But a deep understanding of how great business models are made can provide the key to unlocking that growth. This landmark book describes how companies can achieve transformational growth in new markets Or, simply put, how they can seize the white space. To step out into the unknown and seize the white space requires a new language - and a framework with which to understand an existing enterprise and the white space it hopes to conquer.
    JAN 1 2010; By Mark W. Johnson (books)

    available for purchase (sample pages)
  • The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times

    Harvard Business School Publishing, June 2009. Experts agree: The turbulence triggered by the economic shock of 2008 constitutes the “new normal.” Unfortunately, too many managers have become paralyzed by it, capable only of slashing costs indiscriminately. Though examining spending during recessions makes sense, the smartest executives do much more. As Scott Anthony reveals in The Silver Lining, these leaders continue innovating—by stopping ineffective initiatives, changing key business processes, and starting more productive behaviors. Result? Their companies emerge from downturns stronger than ever. Providing a wealth of ideas, tools, and examples from diverse industries, Anthony explains how to safeguard your company’s profitability during even the toughest recessions.
    JUN 1 2009; By Scott D. Anthony (books)

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  • The Innovator's Prescription

    A groundbreaking prescription for health care reform—from a legendary leader in innovation. Our health care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer Americans can afford it, fewer businesses can provide it, and fewer government programs can promise it for future generations. We need a cure, and we need it now. Harvard Business School’s Clayton M. Christensen—whose bestselling The Innovator’s Dilemma revolutionized the business world—presents The Innovator’s Prescription, a comprehensive analysis of the strategies that will improve health care and make it affordable. Christensen applies the principles of disruptive innovation to the broken health care system with two pioneers in the field—Dr. Jerome Grossman and Dr. Jason Hwang. Together, they examine a range of symptoms and offer proven solutions. This is real innovation at work: an eye-opening manifesto that’s sure to spark international debate—and much-needed change for a healthier future.
    DEC 4 2008; By Clayton Christensen and Jerome Grossman, Jason Hwang (books)

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  • The Innovator's Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work

    More than a decade ago, Clayton Christensen's breakthrough book The Innovator's Dilemma illustrated how disruptive innovations drive industry transformation and market creation. Christensen's research demonstrated how growth-seeking incumbents must develop the capability to deflect disruptive attacks and seize disruptive opportunities. In The Innovator's Guide to Growth, Scott Anthony, Mark Johnson, Joseph Sinfield, and Elizabeth Altman take the subject to the next level: implementation. Harvard Business Press, July 2008.
    JUL 1 2008; By Scott D. Anthony and Mark W. Johnson and Joe Sinfield and Elizabeth J. Altman (books)

    available for purchase (sample pages) (review)
  • Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns

    A crash course in the business of learning-from the bestselling author of The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution

    In his long-awaited new book, Clayton M. Christensen and coauthors Michael B. Horn and Curtis W. Johnson take one of the most important issues of our time — education — and apply Christensen's now-famous theories of “disruptive” change using a wide range of real-life examples. Whether you're a school administrator, government official, business leader, parent, teacher, or entrepreneur, you'll discover surprising new ideas, outside-the-box strategies, and straight-A success stories.  McGraw-Hill: June 2008.


    JUN 1 2008; By Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn and Curtis W. Johnson (books)

    available for purchase (review)
  • From Resource Allocation to Strategy

    A collection of some of the leading experts on strategy examine how strategy is actually made by company managers across the several levels of an organization. Oxford University Press, December 2005
    DEC 1 2005; By Clark Gilbert and Joseph L. Bower (books)

    available for purchase (sample pages) (review)
  • Seeing What's Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change

    The world's leading expert on disruptive innovation and his team of researchers introduce a groundbreaking model that will enable "outsiders" with no proprietary information to predict how innovations will impact firms and industries — and to make the right decisions while there is still time to make them. Harvard Business School Press, May 2004.
    MAY 1 2004; By Clayton Christensen and Scott D. Anthony and Erik A. Roth (books)

    available for purchase (review)
  • The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth

    This book picks up where The Innovator's Dilemma left off, providing organizations of any size a way of approaching the creation of disruptive growth businesses. Written with Deloitte research director Michael Raynor. Harvard Business School Press, September 2003.
    The Wall Street Journal rates The Innovator's Solution as one of the top 5 best books on business and the Internet. (October 5, 2005)
    SEP 1 2003; By Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor (books)

    available for purchase (sample pages)
  • Creative Destruction: Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the Market--And How to Successfully Transform Them

    Based on a concept first advanced some 70 years ago by economist Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Foster and Kaplan propose that corporations can outperform capital markets and maintain their leadership positions only if they creatively and continuously reconstruct themselves. Doubleday Business, April 2001.
    DEC 1 2001; By Richard N. Foster and Sarah Kaplan (books)

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  • The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

    This best-selling book helps managers understand that when dominant companies ignore disruptive innovations because they don't interest their mainstream customers, they miss the next great wave of industry growth. Harvard Business School Press (June 1997).
    JUN 1 1997; By Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor (books)

    available for purchase (sample pages)
  • Innovation: The Attacker's Advantage

    Summit Books
    APR 1 1986; By Richard N. Foster (books)

    available for purchase (sample pages) (review)

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