Innovation & Product Development

Soundview Executive Book Summaries® publishes summaries of the best business books of each year on innovation issues including collaboration, change management, product development, creativity, disruptive innovation and more. Learn how to ignite the creative juices in your company to beat the competition.

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Invisible Solutions

25 Lenses that Reframe and Help Solve Difficult Business Problems

by Stephen Shapiro

Stephen Shapiro, a left-brained engineer in a right-brained world, applied his systems engineering to purposeful innovation.

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The Innovator's Spirit

Discover the Mindset to Pursue the Impossible

by Chuck Swoboda

In The Innovator’s Spirit, author Chuck Swoboda relates his own experiences with innovation and describes what he calls “the innovator’s spirit”: a kind of attitude and personal energy that each of us has deep down.

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Create the Future

Tactics for Disruptive Thinking

by Jeremy Gutsche

In his book, Create the Future, Jeremy Gutsche shares with readers the secrets to unlocking true innovation in a powerful and actionable way.

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Innovating Innovation

Leadership Tools to Make Revolutionary Change Happen for You and Your Business

by David Morey

In Innovating Innovation, David Morey champions the idea of taking a new approach to innovation itself.

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The Change Maker's Playbook

How to Seek, Seed and Scale Innovation in Any Company

by Amy J. Radin

Tangible steps to find and safeguard the plans that will deliver the sustainable business-changing impacts - new customers, new relationships, new sources of value and growth - their businesses need.

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Costovation

Innovation That Gives Your Customers Exactly What They Want - and Nothing More

by Stephen Wunker, Jennifer Luo Law

Costovation solves the dilemma of how to spend less and innovate more. The book's revolutionary approach broadens the definition of innovation beyond products to the business model itself.

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Competing Against Luck

The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice

by Karen Dillon, David S. Duncan, Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall

Innovation strategy and growth expert Clayton M. Christensen, and his co-authors Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon and David Duncan, present a new conceptual framework for products and innovation based on their conclusion that customers don't "buy" products or services; they “hire” them to do a job.

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Smartcuts

How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success

by Shane Snow

In Smartcuts, Shane Snow shatters common wisdom about success, revealing how conventions like “paying dues” prevent progress, why kids shouldn’t learn times tables, and how, paradoxically, it’s easier to build a huge business than a small one.

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Disrupt You!

Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation

by Jay Samit

Technology innovator Jay Samit describes the unique method he has used to invent new markets and expand established businesses. He demystifies the mechanics of disruption for individuals and businesses alike while offering empowering advice for anyone with a big idea.

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