If you conflate “innovation” with “features,” you will misread every book below. Disruption (Christensen) is a mechanism about incumbents and trajectories; category creation (Thiel, Kim & Mauborgne) is a design problem about uncontested space; lean methods are a process for learning faster than burn. Mixing the three without labels is how strategy decks become astrology.
FTN's business frameworks include disruptive innovation and adjacent lenses; this list is the canonical shelf those pages assume.
Core Innovation Frameworks
The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton M. Christensen · Book · Amazon
Disruption mechanism: inferior products serving overlooked segments, improving until incumbents lose.
Zero to One
Peter Thiel · Book · Amazon
Category creation through secrets and monopoly thinking—contrarian complement to disruption.
Blue Ocean Strategy
W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne · Book · Amazon
Value innovation and uncontested market space—strategy canvas and ERRC grid for positioning.
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries · Book · Amazon
Experimental method for innovation under uncertainty—build-measure-learn loop as process discipline.
Crossing the Chasm
Geoffrey A. Moore · Book
The adoption gap between early adopters and mainstream—where many innovations stall.
Technology and Platform Innovation
Platform Revolution
Parker, Van Alstyne, Choudary · Book
Network effects, governance, and multi-sided market innovation.
Aggregation Theory
Ben Thompson · Essay
Modern innovation dynamics in modular ecosystems and user aggregation.