BOOKS

More than a decade ago, Clayton Christensen's breakthrough book The Innovator's Dilemma illustrated how disruptive innovations drive industry transformation and market creation. Christensen's research demonstrated how growth-seeking incumbents must develop the capability to deflect disruptive attacks and seize disruptive opportunities. In The Innovator's Guide to Growth, Scott Anthony, Mark Johnson, Joseph Sinfield, and Elizabeth Altman take the subject to the next level: implementation. Harvard Business Press, July 2008.
JUL 1 2008; By Scott D. Anthony and Mark Johnson and Joe Sinfield and Elizabeth J. Altman (books)

A crash course in the business of learning-from the bestselling author of The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution…

In his long-awaited new book, Clayton M. Christensen and coauthors Michael B. Horn and Curtis W. Johnson take one of the most important issues of our time — education — and apply Christensen's now-famous theories of “disruptive” change using a wide range of real-life examples. Whether you're a school administrator, government official, business leader, parent, teacher, or entrepreneur, you'll discover surprising new ideas, outside-the-box strategies, and straight-A success stories.  McGraw-Hill: June 2008.

A collection of some of the leading experts on strategy examine how strategy is actually made by company managers across the several levels of an organization. Oxford University Press, December 2005
DEC 1 2005; By Clark Gilbert and Joseph L. Bower (books)

The world's leading expert on disruptive innovation and his team of researchers introduce a groundbreaking model that will enable "outsiders" with no proprietary information to predict how innovations will impact firms and industries — and to make the right decisions while there is still time to make them. Harvard Business School Press, May 2004.
MAY 1 2004; By Clayton Christensen and Scott D. Anthony and Erik A. Roth (books)

This book picks up where The Innovator's Dilemma left off, providing organizations of any size a way of approaching the creation of disruptive growth businesses. Written with Deloitte research director Michael Raynor. Harvard Business School Press, September 2003.
The Wall Street Journal rates The Innovator's Solution as one of the top 5 best books on business and the Internet. (October 5, 2005)
SEP 1 2003; By Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor (books)

Based on a concept first advanced some 70 years ago by economist Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Foster and Kaplan propose that corporations can outperform capital markets and maintain their leadership positions only if they creatively and continuously reconstruct themselves. Doubleday Business, April 2001.
DEC 1 2001; By Richard N. Foster and Sarah Kaplan (books)

This best-selling book helps managers understand that when dominant companies ignore disruptive innovations because they don't interest their mainstream customers, they miss the next great wave of industry growth. Harvard Business School Press (June 1997).
JUN 1 1997; By Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor (books)

Summit Books
APR 1 1986; By Richard N. Foster (books)