Quotes About Innovation

Finding bright spots, then, solves many different problems at once.

We should make an effort to praise ingenious solutions to customers' problems.

What is the ratio of the time I spend solving problems to the time I spend scaling successes?

ladder your way down from a change idea to a specific behavior, you

When you use analogies—when you find someone who has solved your problem—you can take your pick from the world's buffet of solutions. But when you don't bother to look, you've got to cook up the answer yourself. Every time. That may be possible, but it's not wise, and it certainly ain't speedy. DUNBAR

What should a Pegasus person do in this situation?

by disrupting routines, we can create more peaks.

What's working, and how can we do more of it?" Sounds simple, doesn't it? Yet, in the real world, this obvious question is almost never asked. Instead, the question we ask is more problem focused: "What's broken, and how do we fix it?

Until you can ladder your way down from a change idea to a specific behavior, you're not ready to lead a switch.

The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.

To get someone's attention break a pattern of thinking.

Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

But at the end of the day, you can't major in Making Stuff, so it was Art by default.

It's not Art. And Art is not Design.

Deep inside every customer is a treasure trove of half-baked ideas, creative capacity, and ingenuity-in-the-raw.

In the world of innovation, wacky wins; logical loses.

The opportunity to co-create is a gift you give your customer as a way to summon their imagination.

A partnership is the paramount confederation for creating and nurturing innovation.

Envision what the path would be if the best answer lay inside the imagination of the customer.

In a judgment-free arena, there is an evident invitation to surface imaginative ideas, perspectives, and insights.

Let your co-creation partnership run free in the wild meadow of originality; it will be fenced in the stable of practicality soon enough.

Invite your customer to take risks in the pursuit of inspired innovation, and be your customer's net when they step onto that high wire.

Innovation dances to the sweet sound of a banjo. Banjo behavior makes people want to jump up and join in.

If the pursuit of customer imagination were a religion, passion would be its hymnal.