![]() | Losing My Virginity: How I've Had Fun & Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way by Richard Branson
Buy used from: £2.74 Autobiography of leading business model innovator and a description of many of his early innovations.
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![]() | Inside Intuit: How the Makers of Quicken Beat Microsoft and Revolutionized an Entire Industry by Suzanne Taylor
Buy new: £21.24 / Used from: £1.47 Outstanding case history of continuing business model innovation through four CEOs with different management and leadership styles. Excellent perspectives on the company's successes versus Microsoft.
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![]() | Plain Talk: Lessons from a Business Maverick by Ken Iverson
Buy new: £16.99 / Used from: £6.00 A good description of corporate culture and processes used for continuing business model innovation at Nucor.
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![]() | Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't by Jim Collins
Buy used from: £11.26 One chapter on Nucor provides insights into their patterns of business model innovation.
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![]() | The Excitement Is Building: How Habitat for Humanity Is Putting Roofs over Heads and Hope in Hearts by Millard Fuller
Buy used from: £0.01 Excellent background on the early business model innovations developed by Habitat for Humanity International.
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![]() | e-Business Intelligence: Turning Information into Knowledge into Profit by Bernard Liautaud
Buy used from: £0.01 Excellent description of software tools to access data across stakeholder groups to find new innovation opportunities, based on software by Business Objects, a continuing business model innovator.
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![]() | Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary by Linus Torvalds
Buy used from: £4.25 Entertaining autobiography of the founder of the Linux business model for software development.
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![]() | Under the Radar: How the Open Source Sneak Attack is Transforming the Technology War by Robert Young
Buy used from: £0.01 Description of the early evolution of Red Hat's business models based on Linux.
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![]() | Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good: The Madcap Business Adventure by the Truly Oddest Couple by Paul Newman
Buy used from: £0.08 Amusing case history of establishing Paul Newman's many food products through business model innovation to raise money for charity and to establish new charities.
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![]() | Adventures of a Bystander (Trailblazers) by Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management
Buy new: £28.89 / Used from: £9.95 Anecdotes that capture Peter Drucker's many personal business model innovations.
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![]() | Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes by Robert S. Kaplan
Buy new: £16.99 / Used from: £12.60 This book focuses on designing and communicating strategy, and contains a brief section on how to establish innovation processes for business model innovation.
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![]() | The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth by Clayton M. Christensen
Buy new: £14.27 / Used from: £14.55 Although this book does not address continuing business model innovation, the Sony example in the book fits this subject.
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![]() | Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors by Michael E. Porter
Buy used from: £7.50 Although this book does not address continuing business model innovation, it has a helpful list of potential advantages to consider developing with your next business model.
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![]() | Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin
Buy used from: £9.36 Describes the marketing advantages of developing new, preferred competitive advantages of the sort that continuing business model innovation provides.
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![]() | Balanced Scorecard, The: Translating Strategy into Action by Robert S Kaplan
Buy new: £16.30 / Used from: £2.90 Provides helpful ways to establish management controls for a new competitive strategy.
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![]() | Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Harper Business Essentials) by James C. Collins
Buy used from: £1.19 Addresses creation of a learning organization, which you can use to develop continuing business model innovations. This book does not, however, address continuing business model innovation.
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![]() | Strategy-Focused Organization, The: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment by Thomas H. Davenport
Buy new: £15.99 / Used from: £3.20 A valuable way to communicate your new business model.
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![]() | Corporate Creativity by Alan G. Robinson
Buy used from: £0.01 Contains an excellent example of how the Japanese Railways created a business model innovation to enter the bottled water business to help eliminate leakage profitably from a mountain train tunnel.
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![]() | Six Thinking Hats: An Essential Approach to Business Management by Edward de Bono
Buy used from: £4.74 Although this book does not address continuing business model innovation, it has a balanced methodology for innovation that could be applied to continuing business model innovation.
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![]() | Double-Digit Growth: How Great Companies Achieve It--No Matter What by Michael Treacy
Buy used from: £0.05 Good discussions of business model innovations at Dell, Johnson Controls and Paychex.
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![]() | Becoming a Category of One: How Extraordinary Companies Transcend Commodity and Defy Comparison by Joe Calloway
Buy new: £16.99 / Used from: £1.73 Excellent examples in the beginning of business model innovation through service improvements.
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![]() | The Myth of Excellence by Fred Crawford
Buy used from: £0.32 Ways of using customer research to build improved business models.
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![]() | The Ultimate Competitive Advantage - Secrets of Continually Developing a More Profitable Business Model by Donald Mitchell
Buy new: £22.09 / Used from: £17.49 Best source of information on continuing business model innovation processes featuring dozens of successful examples. Has more examples than all other books combined on this subject.
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![]() | The Irresistible Growth Enterprise: Breakthrough Gains from Uncontrollable Change by Donald Mitchell
Buy new: £19.50 / Used from: £9.28 How to insulate new business models you develop from harm due to unexpected events.
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![]() | The 2, 000 Percent Solution:Free Your Organization from "Stalled" Thinking to Achieve Exponential Success by Donald Mitchell
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £16.48 Methods for creating world-class business model innovations in the second part of the book.
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