Required Readings:

Carlson, Curtis R. and William W. Wilmot. 2006. Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want. Crown Publishing Group a Division of Random House, New York.

ISBN:0307336697

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Kahn, Kenneth B., Gloria Barczak, and Roberta Moss. 2006. Perspective: Establishing an NPD Best Practices Framework. J. of Product Innovation Management 23:106-116.

Cooper, Robert G. 2008. Perspective: The Stage-Gate^® Idea-to-Launch Process—Update, What’s New, and NexGen Systems. J. of Product Innovation Management 25: 213-232. Accessed on-line at  http://www.prod-dev.com/research_articles.php . Accessed September 25, 2009.

 Cooper, Robert G. 2009. Effective Gating: Make product innovation more productive by using gates with teeth. Stage-Gate International and Product Development Institute, Inc.. Reference Paper #37.  Accessed on-line at  http://www.prod-dev.com/research_articles.php . Accessed September 25, 2009.

Cooper, Robert G. and Scott Edgett, 2009. Benchmarking Best Practices, Performance Results and the Role of Senior Managemnt. Stage-Gate International and Product Development Institute, Inc.. Reference Paper .  Available on-line at  http://www.prod-dev.com/research_articles.php . Accessed September 25, 2009.

 Edgett, Scott J. and Michelle Jones. 2009. Ten Tips for Successfully Implementing a Stage-Gate^® Product Innovation Process.  Product Development Institute, Inc^®.Accessed on-line at http://www.prod-dev.com/research_articles.php    Accessed September 25, 2009.

 

Other Useful Books

 Skarzynski, Peter and Rowan Gibson. 2008, Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint for Transforming the Way Your Company Innovates. Harvard Business Press, Boston, Ma.

ISBN:1422102513

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 Silverstein, David, Samuel, Philip and Neil DeCarlo. 2009. The innovator’s toolkit: 50+ Techniques for Predictable and Sustainable Organic Growth. John Wiley & Sons, Inc

ISBN:9780470345351

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