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Technology Innovation Management at Carleton University

TTMG5003T
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Winter 2009


Reading


REQUIRED READINGS

All required reading and other course resources are available on-line, either on the public Internet, through the electronic databases of the Carleton University Library, or posted to the TIM LMS.

Additional assigned reading will be announced during class.

Articles

Anderson, J.C., Narus, J.A. & Van Rossum, W.  2006.  Customer value propositions in business markets.  Harvard Business Review, 84(3): 90-99.

Gans, J.S., & Stern, S. 2003. The product market and the market for "ideas": commercialization strategies for technology entrepreneurs. Research Policy, 32: 333-350.

Johnson, M.W., Christensen, C.M. & Kagermann, H.  2008.  Reinventing your business model.  Harvard Business Review, 86(12): 50-56.

Teece, D.J. 1986. Profiting from technological innovation: implications for integration, collaboration, licensing, and public policy. Research Policy, 15: 285-305.

Websites

PriceWaterhouseCoopers [www.pwc.com] - Vision to Reality: Tools and Techniques

  • Developing a Business Plan; Sample Plan; Executive Summary Template

  • Financial Models: Generic Financial Model, Service Financial Model

  • The Technology Entrepreneur's Guidebook: Entrepreneurship, A Sensible Approach to Writing a Good Business Plan, Raising Venture Capital, Managing Explosive Growth in Technology Companies, Choosing an Exit Strategy

QuickMBA [www.quickmba.com/strategy] - Strategic Management

  • Porter's 5 Forces

  • Competitive Advantage

  • Vertical Integration

  • Horizontal Integration

Video files

Christensen, C.M. (2002). The Innovation Economy: How Technology Is Transforming Existing Industries and Creating New Ones, http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/108/

Christensen, C.M. (2004b). Strategies for Creating Innovation-Driven Growth, Demo, http://www.innosight.com/strategies_growth.htm  

  • Three segments of this multimedia CDROM are available on-line at no charge.

  • 2D: Disruption in the steel industry – Part 1

  • 2E: Disruption in the steel industry – Part 1

  • 3C: New market disruption – Transistors 

  • Select “View a demo” to open a new window with a demo version of this product (Macromedia Flash Player required), and follow the on-screen instructions to view these three segments.

Henderson, R. (2005) Standards and Strategy: Competing in Increasingly Open Worlds, http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/274/

NON-REQUIRED REFERENCES

Books

The following books provide more information or alternative treatments of specific course topics:

Bhide, Amar V. (2003).  The Origin and Evolution of New Business.  Oxford University Press.

Brandenburger, Adam M. and Barry J. Nalebuff (1997).  Co-opetition: A Revolutionary Mindset that Combines Competition and Cooperation.  Currency.

Christensen, Clayton M. (2003). The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (reprint edition), Collins.

  • This is a recent paperback reprint of Christensen’s first book, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, originally published by Harvard Business School Press in 1997.

  • One copy of the original 1997 edition of this text is available on two-hour reserve at the circulation desk of the Carleton library.  The call number is HD53 .C49.

Christensen, C.M. and Raynor, M.E. (2003). The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth, Harvard Business School Press.

  • One copy is held two-hour reserve at the circulation desk of the Carleton library.  The call number is HD53 .C493 2003.

Christensen, Clayton M., Scott D. Anthony and Erik A. Roth (2004).  Seeing What’s Next: Using Theory to Predict Industry Change, Harvard Business School Press.

  • One copy is held on two-hour reserve at the circulation desk of the Carleton library.  The call number is HD30.28 .C54 2004.

  • Chapter 10, “Breaking the Wire: The Future of Telecommunications”, is available for sale separately as an electronic download from Harvard Business Online.

Doyle, Denzil (2003).  Making Technology Happen.  Doyletech Corporation.

Mintzberg, Henry, Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel (1998).  Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through the Wilds of Strategic Management.  Free press.

Tiffany, Paul and Steven D. Peterson (2004). Business Plans for Dummies (Second Edition). IDG Books.

  • Don’t be turned off by the title.  This is a useful book that clearly explains the basics.

Tracy, John A. (1999). How to Read a Financial Report, 5th edition, John Wiley & Sons.

  • The required readings from the Knowledge Center website are excerpts from this book.