Innovation, Open Source Books and Doing Business in China

I am working with the ideas of my upcoming book for Talentum. Part of the research is to order other books (and read them) and today, Amazon.com delivered three books on my doorstep in Trophy Club, Texas which has been my home town for more than 7 years. The city is built around two 18-hole golf courses… what else can you wish for?

The first one is by Geoffrey A. Moore with the title “Dealing with Darwin – how great companies innovate at every phase of their evolution”. Moore is the writer of the well-known book “Crossing the Chasm” and “Inside the Tornado”. The think that caught my eye was the chapter “Innovation and Business Architecture”. I will have to review that to see what he claims in this latest book.

The second book is from O’Reilly and edited by Chris DiBona, Danese Cooper & Mark Stone and the title of this book is “Open Sources 2”. This book is a collection of writings from different authors and has some very interesting topics like “The Open Source Paradigm Shift”, “OSS in India”, “When China Dances with OSS” and many others. My aim is to learn the basic thinking behind open source and how that will impact the global software development economy. This book seems to be very promising for that.

And the final and third book is by James McGregor with the book title “One Billion Customers – Lessons from the front lines of doing business in China”. It is pretty obvious why I selected this. I strongly believe that both China and India will become extremely important in any technology setting going forward. Just look at what is happening in the markets today. I have had at least ten Thinkpads and now it is owned by a Chinese brand Lenovo. By the way, I have many other books about China as well, one of them being a book by a Finnish journalist Pekka Mykkänen whose book “Kiina rynnistää maailmalle” I bought during one of my Finland trips.