Reference Materials

Business Resilience

“The Business Resilience Transformation Lifecycle: A roadmap for becoming a stronger, more responsive business,” Richard Cocchiara, Disaster Recovery Journal, Winter 2010

A Capability Model for Enterprise Resiliency, by Christopher C. Owens & Charles M. Wallen, 2006,
http://www.drj.com/articles/spr06/1902-04.html

Business Strategy and Innovation

Improving Performance: How to Manage the Whitespace on the Organization Chart, 2nd Ed., G. Rummler and A. Brache, 1995, Jossey-Bass Pub.

Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want, Curtis R. Carlson and William W. Wilmot, 2006, Crown Business

The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business, Clayton M. Christensen, 1997, Harper Business Essentials

The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth, Clayton M. Christensen & Michael E. Raynor, 2003, HBS Press

Seeing What’s Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change, Christensen et al.,2004, HBS Press

Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers, Geoffrey A. Moore, 1991, Harper Business

Inside the Tornado: Marketing Strategies from Silicon Valley’s Cutting Edge, Geoffrey A. Moore,1995, Harper Business

Living on the Fault Line: Managing for Shareholder Value in the Age of the Internet, Geoffrey A. Moore, 2000, Harper Business

Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of their Evolution, Geoffrey A. Moore, 2005, Portfolio (member of Penguin group)

Business Sustainability

"Sustainability: The 'Embracers' Seize Advantage," MIT Sloan Management Review, Special Report: Sustainability & Innovation, February 10, 2011. http://sloanreview.mit.edu/special-report/sustainability-advantage/.

Green to Gold: How smart companies use environmental strategy to innovate, create value, and build competitive advantage, Daniel C. Esty and Andrew S. Winston,  2009, John Wiley & Sons. See also website: Esty & Winston’s Green to Gold online guide, blog, toolkit, etc., http://www.eco-advantage.com/.

Sustainable Energy Security: Strategic Risks and Opportunities for Business, Chatham House-Lloyd's 360° Risk Insight White Paper by Antony Froggatt and Glada Lahn, June 2010,
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/891/

“Strategy and Society: The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility,” Michael Porter and Mark Kramer, Harvard Business Review, December 2006, pp.78-90, http://www.fsg-impact.org/ideas/item/43

The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World, Peter Senge et al., 2008, Doubleday, http://www.solonline.org/NecessaryRevolution/

The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook: When It All Comes Together, edited by Jeana Wirtenberg, Phd., 2008, AMACOM,  Greenleaf Publishing Ltd. (http://www.thesustainableenterprisefieldbook.net/)

The Truth About Green Business: “You don’t have to choose between making money and making sense…,” Gil Friend, 2009, FT Press

Checklists

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, Atul Gawande, 2009, Metropolitan Books

Enterprise Architecture

See Sustainable Enterprise Architecture and IT

IT (Information Technology)

See Sustainable Enterprise Architecture and IT

Resources - Climate Change

What’s the Worst That Could Happen: a Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate, Greg Craven, 2009, Penguin Books Ltd.

Resources - Energy and Sustainability

The Association for the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO): http://www.peakoil.net/ (international) and http://aspo-usa.com/

The Energy Bulletin:  http://energybulletin.net/

“The JOE 2010: Joint Operating Environment,” United States Joint Forces Command, pp. 24-29,
http://www.jfcom.mil/newslink/storyarchive/2010/JOE_2010_o.pdf

The Post Carbon Institute:  http://www.postcarbon.org/

“Causes and Consequences of the Oil Shock of 2007-08,” James Hamilton (of the University of California San Diego Department of Economics), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Spring 2009,
http://www.brookings.edu/economics/bpea/~/media/Files/Programs/ES/BPEA/2009_spring_bpea_papers/2009_spring_bpea_ hamilton.pdf

“Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, & Risk Management,” Hirsch et al. (commissioned by the US Department of Energy), 2/2005, http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/others/pdf/oil_peaking_netl.pdf

Sustainable Energy—without the hot air, David JC MacKay, 2009, UIT, Cambridge, England (also available at: http://www.withouthotair.com/download.html)

Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization, Jeff Rubin (former Chief Economist of CIBC World Markets), 2009, Random House. See also speech delivered at The Business of Climate Change Conference 2009; video and transcript available at http://www.energybulletin.net/node/51306.

“The Macroeconomics of Oil Shocks,” Keith Sill (Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia), Business Review, Q1 2007, pp. 21-31,
http://www.phil.frb.org/research-and-data/publications/business-review/2007/q1/br_q1-2007-3_oil-shocks.pdf

Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy, Matthew Simmons (energy investment banker), 2005, John Wiley & Sons. See also archive of speeches,
http://www.simmonsco-intl.com/research.aspx?Type=msspeeches
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Resources - Natural Environment

The ISO 14000 family of environmental management standards,
http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/management_standards/iso_9000_iso_14000/iso_14000_essentials.htm

Risk Management

Global Risks 2011 Sixth Edition: An initiative of the Risk Response Network, World Economic Forum, January, 2011. Online at http://riskreport.weforum.org/ or download at http://riskreport.weforum.org/global-risks-2011.pdf

Outlook on the Global Agenda 2011: An initiative of the Risk Response Network, World Economic Forum, January, 2011. Online at http://outlook.weforum.org/ or download at http://outlook.weforum.org/outlook_global_agenda.pdf

“Shake, Rattle, Seattle,” Peter Yanev (author of Peace of Mind in Earthquake Country and head of a structural engineering and earthquake consulting firm), New York Times Op-Ed, 3/18/2010,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/opinion/28yanev.html

Scenarios

Future Inc.: How Business Can Anticipate and Profit from What’s NEXT, Eric Garland, AMACOM, 2007

Scenarios, The Art of Strategic Conversation, Kees van der Heijden, 2nd Ed., 2005, John Wiley & Sons, England

“Scenarios, uncharted waters ahead,” Peter Wack , Harvard Business Review, Sep-Oct 1985, pp. 73-90

“Scenarios, shooting the rapids,” Peter Wack, Harvard Business Review, Nov-Dec 1985, pp. 131-142

Sustainable Enterprise Architecture and IT

Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution, Ross et al., 2006, HBS Press

The Greening of IT: How companies can make a difference for the environment, John Lamb, 2009, IBM Press