Quotes About Innovation

references to a few clear and simple strategic priorities, to the importance of building culture and developing talent, and to leveraging a few core capabilities.

The fundamental problem is that in a world dominated by those pursuing exploitation, the innovation process is light amusement at best, a dangerous threat at worst.

knights and no outside-the-industry saviors. Interestingly, and also consistent with the findings of other researchers over the years, the most senior leaders generally kept a low profile.

decline, downsizing, near death, desperation, bet the company, and revival that characterizes so many corporate histories (such as Nokia, IBM, Procter & Gamble, and many others).

So before you let people blunder around reinventing the process every time someone gets the urge to innovate, it makes sense to understand it first.

allowing an existing structure to remain in place for too long creates inertia and results in an organization that is maladapted to the opportunities it finds.

Organizations have habits. And they will cling to their habits at the expense sometimes of their own survival.

Historically, strategy and innovation have been thought of as two separate disciplines

the ratio of assumptions you have to make relative to knowledge that you possess is high—a different set of disciplines needs to be employed.

growth platforms." Each platform was given a specific broad domain that it could pursue, regardless of where the assets and people happened to be located within a particular business.

Companies such as Google (and, historically, 3M) operationalize this theory by giving employees time at work to do whatever they want, without restriction or guidance.

that the speed of the new economy has caused people and firms to believe they don't have time to implement tools

the "jobs to be done" perspective,3 "challenge-driven innovation,"4 or "needs-driven innovation"5—in which customer needs are inputs to a "growth factory," as my colleague Scott Anthony argues.

rather than heavy annual budgeting processes and efficiency-oriented values, the outlier firms invest in increasing their flexibility, even if this might lead to a small degree of

Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not just to make discoveries.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.

The very concept of "industry" is an artificial categorization. Often the most important competition any business will face is from entrants who are not hamstrung by assumptions about what their "industry" expects of them.

it decided last year to become a 'broad energy' firm, investing up to 15–20 percent of annual capital expenditure in 'new energy solutions' by 2030, mostly in offshore wind.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

Art imitates nature, but does not copy it.

Progress does not come from following the norms, but instead by breaking them. What is normal remains the same and therefore we must depart from the past.

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.