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The best innovation books of 2009 selected by BusinessWeek highlight four major subjects: (1) Design-driven innovation: how design strategies are shaping the future of businesses, (2) Innovation in uncertain times: how to reduce risk in periods of crisis, (3) Intelligent innovation: how to tap into the power of creativity, collaboration, and networking, and (4) Leadership. Titles, authors, and publishers are listed below:
Design-Driven Innovation
- Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
By Tim Brown, HarperCollins/HarperBusiness - The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage
By Roger L. Martin, Harvard Business PresS - A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business
By Hartmut Esslinger, Jossey-Bass - Design-Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean
By Roberto Verganti, Harvard Business Press - I Miss My Pencil
By Martin Bone and Kara Johnson, Chronicle Books - Glimmer: How Design Can Transform Your Life and Maybe Even The World
By Warren Berger, The Penguin Press - In Pursuit of Elegance: Why The Best Ideas Have Something Missing
By Matthew E. May, Broadway Business
Innovation in uncertain times
- Discovery-Driven Growth: A Breakthrough Process to Reduce Risk and Seize Opportunity
By Rita Gunther McGrath and Ian C. MacMillan, Harvard Business Press - The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It
By Joshua Cooper Ramo, Little, Brown & Company - The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times
By Scott D. Anthony, Harvard Business Press - How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In
By Jim Collins, HarperCollins - Innovation Tournaments: Creating and Selecting Exceptional Opportunities
By Christian Terwiesch and Karl Ulrich, Harvard Business Press
Intelligent innovation
- Clever: Leading Your Smartest, Most Creative People
By Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones, Harvard Business Press - Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives
By Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler, Little, Brown & Co. - Wired To Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy
By Dev Patnaik with Peter Mortensen, Financial Times Press - What Would Google Do?
By Jeff Jarvis, HarperCollins/HarperBusiness
Leadership
- The Catalyst: How You Can Become an Extraordinary Growth Leader
By Jeanne Liedtka, Robert Rosen, and Robert Wiltbank - Crown Business, Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model
By John Mullins and Randy Komisar, Harvard Business Press - Chief Culture Officer: How to Create a Living, Breathing Corporation
By Grant McCracken, Basic Books
Source: BusinessWeek