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Helpful Books for Continuing Business Model Innovation
Losing My Virginity: How I've Had Fun & Made a Fortune Doing Business My WayLosing 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.
Inside Intuit: How the Makers of Quicken Beat Microsoft and Revolutionized an Entire IndustryInside 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.
Plain Talk: Lessons from a Business MaverickPlain 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.
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don'tGood 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.
The Excitement Is Building: How Habitat for Humanity Is Putting Roofs over Heads and Hope in HeartsThe Excitement Is Building: How Habitat for Humanity Is Putting Roofs over Heads and Hope in Hearts by Millard Fuller
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Excellent background on the early business model innovations developed by Habitat for Humanity International.
e-Business Intelligence: Turning Information into Knowledge into Profite-Business Intelligence: Turning Information into Knowledge into Profit by Bernard Liautaud
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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.
Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental RevolutionaryJust 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.
Under the Radar: How the Open Source Sneak Attack is Transforming the Technology WarUnder the Radar: How the Open Source Sneak Attack is Transforming the Technology War by Robert Young
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Description of the early evolution of Red Hat's business models based on Linux.
Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good: The Madcap Business Adventure by the Truly Oddest CoupleShameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good: The Madcap Business Adventure by the Truly Oddest Couple by Paul Newman
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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.
Adventures of a Bystander (Trailblazers)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.
Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible OutcomesStrategy 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.
The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful GrowthThe 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.
Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and CompetitorsCompetitive 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.
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being RemarkablePurple 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.
Balanced Scorecard, The: Translating Strategy into ActionBalanced 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.
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Harper Business Essentials)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.
Strategy-Focused Organization, The: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business EnvironmentStrategy-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.
Corporate CreativityCorporate Creativity by Alan G. Robinson
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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.
Six Thinking Hats: An Essential Approach to Business ManagementSix 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.
Double-Digit Growth: How Great Companies Achieve It--No Matter WhatDouble-Digit Growth: How Great Companies Achieve It--No Matter What by Michael Treacy
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Good discussions of business model innovations at Dell, Johnson Controls and Paychex.
Becoming a Category of One: How Extraordinary Companies Transcend Commodity and Defy ComparisonBecoming 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.
The Myth of ExcellenceThe Myth of Excellence by Fred Crawford
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Ways of using customer research to build improved business models.
The Ultimate Competitive Advantage - Secrets of Continually Developing a More Profitable Business ModelThe 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.
The Irresistible Growth Enterprise: Breakthrough Gains from Uncontrollable ChangeThe 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.
The 2, 000 Percent Solution:Free Your Organization from "Stalled" Thinking to Achieve Exponential SuccessThe 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.