Books related to Product Realization

Quality

  • Statistical Quality Control 7th Edition, by Douglas C. Montgomery
  • Juran’s Quality Handbook, by Joseph M. Juran and Joseph A. Defeo

Hardware startups

  • The Hardware Hacker: Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware 1st Edition by Andrew Bunnie Huang
  • Prototype to Product: A practical guide for getting to market

Design

  • Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering by Henry Petroski
  • The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
  • Product design, by Andrew Dent and Leslie Sherr
  • The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses Hardcover, by Eric Ries

Innovation

  • The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen
  • Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore
  • Diffusion of Innovations by Everett M. Rogers
  • Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup, by Bill Aulet

Society and Ethics

  • Edison and the Electric Chair by Mark Essig
  • Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

Communication

  • The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte
  • Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen
  • Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success by Adam Grant

Manufacturing

  • Books by Rob Thompson
    • Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals
    • The Materials Sourcebook
    • Prototyping and Low-volume Production
    • Graphics and Packaging Production
    • Product and Furniture design
    • Sustainable Materials, Processes and Production
  • The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production– Toyota’s Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry by James P. Womack , Daniel T. Jones, et al.
  • Machinery’s Handbook

Packaging

  • Material Innovation, Packaging Design by Andrew H Dent
  • Graphics and Packaging Production, by Rob Thompson

What does it take to get a product to market?

  • Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
  • Car by Mary Walton