For further exploration

• Australian Quality Council, Innovation: How to engage the whole enterprise in becoming an innovative enterprise: A benchmark study best practice report , Australian Quality Council, Melbourne, 2000.

  A current study of innovation in several Australian organisations.

• D Bubner, An Innovative Approach to Measuring Innovation , Conference paper, 2001, available from www.waveglobal.com. Study by Darryl Bubner of the critical systemic barriers to innovation in a sample of Australian business.

• R Carnegie & M Butlin, Managing The Innovative Enterprise: Australian companies competing with the worlds best, Business Council of Australia, Melbourne, 1993.

  A major study of success patterns in innovation in Australian businesses, including an approach to building the innovating enterprise.

• JC Collins & JI Porras, Built to Last, Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, 2nd edn, Century Business, London, 1998.

  A classic study of the success patterns of long-lived excellent companies.

• G Hamel & CK Prahalad, Competing for the Future , HBS Press, Boston MA, 1994.

  A pioneering exposition of the principles of competing on capabilities.

• E Jaques, Requisite Organisation:The CEOs Guide to Creative Structure and Leadership , Cason Hall, Arlington, 1989.

  Sets out a practical theory for organising businesses to liberate the potential of employees .

• RS Kaplan & DP Norton, The Balanced Scorecard , Harvard Business School Press, Boston MA, 1996.

  A definitive explanation of the balanced scorecard for managing the business for improvement and performance.

• McKinsey and Company, Unlocking Innovation: Challenging Conventional Wisdom About What Leaders Do , McKinsey and Company, Sydney, 1993.

  Provides a perspective on the different leadership styles that enable an innovating environment in businesses.

• PA Roussel, NS Kamal & JE Tamara, 3rd Generation R & D , Harvard Business School Press, Boston MA, 1991.

  A standard text on organising research and development organisations for performance that adds value to their businesses.

• S Tomke, ˜Enlightened Experimentation:The New Imperative for Innovation, Harvard Business Review ,Feb 2001.

  A recent view of approaches to enabling innovation and breakthrough thinking in organisations.