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Great Books on Continuing Business Model Innovation
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Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My WayLosing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way by Richard Branson
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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: $23.10 / Used from: $0.22
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: $19.77 / Used from: $12.58
A good description of the 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 new: $16.19 / Used from: $3.45
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 new: $18.98 / Used from: $0.50
Entertaining autobiography of the founder of the Linux business model for software development.
Capitalism at the Crossroads: The Unlimited Business Opportunities in Solving the World's Most Difficult ProblemsCapitalism at the Crossroads: The Unlimited Business Opportunities in Solving the World's Most Difficult Problems by Stuart L. Hart
Buy new: $25.07 / Used from: $4.09
Description of the continuing business model innovations of the Grameen bank in Bangaldesh
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 to raise money for charity and to establish new charities
Adventures of a BystanderAdventures of a Bystander by Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management
Buy new: $37.96 / Used from: $9.49
Anecdotes that capture Peter Drucker's 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: $26.37 / Used from: $12.99
This book focuses on designing and communicating strategy, and contains a brief section on how to establish innovation processes for business model innovation
Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry ChangeSeeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change by Clayton M. Christensen
Buy new: $21.75 / Used from: $7.97
Although this book does not address continuing business model innovation, there is much good material on helping select target areas for such innovation.
Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and CompetitorsCompetitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors by Michael E. Porter
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $12.77
Although this book does not address continuing business model innovation, it has a helpful list of potential advantages to consider developing
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being RemarkablePurple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin
Buy new: $13.62 / Used from: $2.72
Describes the marketing advantages of developing new, preferred competitive advantages
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through ProfitsThe Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits by C.K. Prahalad
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Although this book does not address continuing business model innovation, it contains several excellent examples based in serving poor people with low-cost business models . . . especially in India.
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary CompaniesBuilt to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by James C. Collins
Buy new: $18.95 / Used from: $4.41
Creating a learning organization that will have the potential to be a continuing business model innovator. The book does not address continuing business model innovation though.
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition IrrelevantBlue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim
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A proposed strategic planning process for developing new business models
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 in a profitable way from a mountain tunnel.
Six Thinking HatsSix Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono
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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
Buy new: $22.20 / Used from: $0.01
Good discussions of business model innovations at Johnson Controls, Paychex and Dell
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
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Excellent examples in the beginning of business model innovation with a service emphasis
The Myth of Excellence: Why Great Companies Never Try to Be the Best at EverythingThe Myth of Excellence: Why Great Companies Never Try to Be the Best at Everything 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: $24.39 / Used from: $16.61
Best source of information on continuing business model innovation processes and examples
The Irresistible Growth Enterprise: Breakthrough Gains from Unstoppable ChangeThe Irresistible Growth Enterprise: Breakthrough Gains from Unstoppable Change by Donald Mitchell
Buy new: $27.50 / Used from: $8.82
How to insulate your new business models from 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: $19.75 / Used from: $16.98
Methods for creating world-class business models
The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution: The Fast and Effective Road Less Traveled for Creating 400 Times Greater Profits and EffectivenessThe 2,000 Percent Squared Solution: The Fast and Effective Road Less Traveled for Creating 400 Times Greater Profits and Effectiveness by Donald Mitchell
Buy new: $18.99 / Used from: $43.34
This book builds on the principles explained in The Ultimate Competitive Advantage and The 2,000 Percent Solution to show how to grow much faster and with lower costs to earn 400 times as much profit.
Creating a World without Poverty: How Social Business Can Transform Our LivesCreating a World without Poverty: How Social Business Can Transform Our Lives by Yunus
Buy new: $63.00 / Used from: $38.00
This book describes a totally new ownership and management model that allows more stakeholders to participate in more ways. It's a brilliant innovation.