2.1.1 Innovation Websites
Innovation Tools
http://www.innovationtools.com 
InnovationTools provides entrepreneurs and innovators with a focused, growing collection of resources on business innovation, creativity and brainstorming. The Innovation Research Resource Center page contains a valuable executive summary of the latest innovation research, surveys and reports from leading firms around the globe.
Innovation Network
http://www.thinksmart.com
InnovationNetwork focuses on helping organizations develop a core competency of innovation. You will find on the website several innovation resources: InnovationDNA, InnovationAudit, InnovationWizard and Innovation Baby Steps.
IBM. Learn how to foster innovation in your business
http://www-1.ibm.com/services/ondemand/drive_innovation.html?ca=ondemandsearch&tacticid=6N2A5W50&me=A&met=osearch&re=search
IBM's page devoted to help managers turning their ideas into real products or services, and getting them to market faster: Is your idea worth pursuing? Great ideas from unlikely sources, evaluating new technology, and looking outside traditional R&D.
Infonomia. Red de Innovadores
http://www.infonomia.com
Web devoted to building a dynamic community of business people, executives and professionals who think, generate and share knowledge and experiences about innovation in organizations, particularly in regard to their transformation toward web organizations.
2.1.2 Articles on managing innovation
Literature on innovation can be found quick and easily in any of the following databases subscribed by the IESE Library:
-Business Source Premier: business journal articles.
-Factiva: newspapers articles and newswires.
-ISI Web of Knowledge: academic journal articles.
You can access them from the “Databases by alphabetical order ” page.
You can find also interesting articles on innovation related journals subscribed by the Library such as:
• European journal of innovation management.
• International journal of innovation management.
• The Journal of product innovation management.
• Creativity and innovation management.
• Economics of innovation and new technology.
To access these titles, you only need to search the catalogue at http://unicornio.iese.edu/uhtbin/webcat . Here you will find the location or the direct link to the e-journal or journal database.
Other good article sources are the business schools research newsletters were you can find publications written by business school professors and researchers on innovation, change and entrepreneurship. We strongly recommend the following:
IESE Insight: Innovation & Entrepreneurship
http://insight.iese.edu/area.asp?ar=9&full=no
HBS Working Knowledge: Innovation
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/topic.jhtml?t=innovation
INSEAD Knowledge: Change & Innovation
http://knowledge.insead.edu/theme.cfm?tid=5
It contains the business research done at INSEAD in the Change & Innovation fields.
2.1.3 Books on managing innovation
By searching the library catalogue you will be able to find several interesting books and e-books on innovation. As the subject is so wide, we have just chosen few titles as an example:
10.50-CHR
Christensen, Claiton M, E. Raynor, Michael
The innovator's solution : creating and sustaining successful growth
Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, 2003.
304 p.
Christensen analyzes the strategies that allow corporations to successfully grow new businesses and outpace the other players in the marketplace. Christensen's earlier book examined how focusing on profits can destroy even well-run corporations, while this book focuses on companies expanding by being "disruptors" who are able to outpace their entrenched competition. The authors examine the nine business decisions integral to growth, including product development, organizational structure, financing and key customer base.
EBRARY
Bean, Roger; Radford,Russell.
The business of innovation: managing the corporate imagination for maximum results
New York : AMACOM, c2002.
302 p.
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ieselibrary/Doc?id=10005785
Contrary to the popular belief that managers should move aside and let people be creative, consultants Bean and Radford assert that this hands-off approach leads to wasted resources. And they propose a new and better way: to build innovative, creativity-rich organizations through astute and skilful management. Whether the end goal is a new product, customer service improvements, or breakthrough marketing strategies, The Business of Innovation provides a systematic process for managing focused, usable innovation - without the micro - managing that can stifle creativity. Packed with examples from McDonald's, Toyota, Palm (Pilot), 3M, Sony, Singapore Airlines, and more, this powerful model helps managers and executives.
10.52-SCH
Schrage, Michael.
Serious play: how the world's best companies simulate to innovate
Boston : Harvard Business School Press, c2000.
244 p.
In Serious Play, Schrage argues that the real value in building models comes less from the help they offer with troubleshooting and problem solving than from the insights they reveal about the organization itself. Technological models can actually change us -improving the way we communicate, collaborate, learn, and innovate. With real-world examples and engaging anecdotes, Schrage shows how companies such as Disney, Microsoft, Boeing, IDEO, and DaimlerChrysler use serious play with modelling technologies to facilitate the collaborative interactions that lead to innovation. A user's guide included with the book helps readers apply many of the innovation practices profiled throughout.
10.52-INN
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, John Kao, Fred Wiersema.
Innovation : breakthrough ideas at 3M, DuPont, GE, Pfizer, and Rubbermaid
New York, NY : HarperBusiness, c1997.
192 p.
This book brings together the best practices of today’s industry leaders and business’s most visionary thinkers. It’s full of conceptual insight, how-to tools and techniques, real examples, and proven strategies for creating, managing, and sustaining processes that result in long-lasting new product successes. Learn why it’s impossible to approach innovation from a business school mentality; why investigations of any cost or size will fail if tied too tightly to current marketplace needs; how fostering a competitive internal environment results in a healthy, creative tension and hungry, entrepreneurial employees.
10.52-KAL
Otto Kalthoff, Ikujiro Nonaka, Pedro Nueno
The light and the shadow : how breakthrough innovation is shaping European business
Oxford : Capstone, 1997
224 p.
This book is an exploration of the rich diversity of European business and innovation. It shows that there are many ways to innovate, although there are some crucial basic ground rules for innovation.
11.57-TUS
Tushman, Michael L.
Winning through innovation: a practical guide to leading organizational change and renewal
Boston, Mass: Harvard Business School Press, 1997
259 p.
Winning Through Innovation is a practical guide to leading organizational change and renewal when new modes of innovation demand it. To avoid long-term failure while focusing on short-term success, business professors Tushman and O'Reilly present their views on the "ambidextrous organization." This is defined as having internally consistent structures and an internal operating culture that provides for excelling today while also planning for the future. Presenting examples from businesses that are doing a successful balancing act, the authors devise a model that can be used by any executive to understand better the dynamics of change necessary for long-term success.
10.51-DRU
Drucker, Peter
Innovation and entrepreneurship : practice and principles
London : Heinemann, 1985
258 p.
The book presents innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline and explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America’s new entrepreneurial economy. A superbly practical book that explains what established businesses, public survey institutions, and new ventures have to know, have to learn, and have to do in today's economy and marketplace.
If you search in the Library Catalog http://unicornio.iese.edu/uhtbin/webcat you will be able to access more books on innovation. Some of them are available in electronic format through ebrary. You can access an ebrary book through the link that appears in the catalogue or search directly in the electronic book collection at http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ieselibrary
For more information on ebrary and how to access to it please read Search Guide or the Library Newsletter 9th issue http://www.iese.edu/en/ad/Library/9/Newsletter.asp#10529
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