Books

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

- W. Chan Kim and Renee Mourborgne, 2005

Still the standard in innovation design, Chan creates a framework for developing new markets with new business models that make the competition irrelevant. Loaded with real world examples of how companies reinvented themselves to create new profit models and new value for customers. A must read for the innovation enthusiast.

Innovation to the Core: A blueprint for transforming the way your company innovates

- Peter Skarzynski and Rowan Gibson, 2008

Many companies try to be innovative and fail.  This book explains the cultural and organizational changes required to be successful at innovation.

Links

*NEW*:Users as Service Innovators: The Case of Banking Services – Study released by the MIT Sloan School of Management.

http://ontariocoops.wordpress.com/ - Ontario Cooperative Blog

Building an Innovation Culture – Meridian Credit Union is building an Innovation Culture (Proposal (ppt))

25 Stretch Goals for Management – A Harvard Business Review article by Gary Hamel about reinventing management systems to leverage an organization’s intellectual capital.

Clay Christensen on Reinventing Your Business Model – This is a great interview with innovation guru Clay Christenson where he provides a simple explanation of types of innovation and how they play in creating value for an organization.

Articles from Harvard Business Publishing

Value Innovation: The Strategic Logic of High Growth

The Why, What, and How of Management Innovation

The Discipline of Innovation

Building an Innovation Factory

Building Breakthrough Businesses Within Established Organizations

Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things