Best 1466 quotes in «innovation quotes» category

The alluring, long-shot chance of a huge gain is the grease that lubricates the machine of innovation.

The apps you need to stay focused are no apps.

The art of questioning is to ignite innovative thinking; the science of questioning is to frame system thinking, with the progressive pursuit of better solutions.

The best way to determine the Values you will enforce in your business is to clarify your personal values.

The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

The biggest mistake brands make are trying to “sell their stuff” rather than clarifying what people are actually buying.

The board should set digital principles and guidelines for allowing the business to manage innovation in an effective way.

The Brinktown jail is one of the most ingenious ever propounded by civic authorities. It must be remembered that Brinktown occupies the surface of a volcanic butte, overlooking a trackless jungle of quagmire, thorn, eel-vine skiver tussock. A single road leads from city down to jungle; the prisoner is merely locked out of the city. Escape is at his option; he may flee as far through the jungle as he sees fit: the entire continent is at his disposal. But no prisoner ever ventures far from the gate; and, when his presence is required, it is only necessary to unlock the gate and call his name.

The business’s potential depends on how it unleashes its information potential and talent potential.

The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be disrupted. There is no middle ground.

The challenge is having a harmonized vision about management philosophy, capability, structure, and maturity in a digital organization.

The competition is out to get you. Are you a moving target or a sitting duck? Innovate or die.

The companies that refused to make hard choices, or refused to admit that anything much was happening, fared badly. If they survive, it is only because their respective governments will not let them go under.

The commercialization of molecular biology is the most stunning ethical event in the history of science, and it has happened with astonishing speed. For four hundred years since Galileo, science has always proceeded as a free and open inquiry into the workings of nature. Scientists have always ignored national boundaries, holding themselves above the transitory concerns of politics and even wars. Scientists have always rebelled against secrecy in research, and have even frowned on the idea of patenting their discoveries, seeing themselves as working to the benefit of all mankind. And for many generations, the discoveries of scientists did indeed have a peculiarly selfless quality... Suddenly it seemed as if everyone wanted to become rich. New companies were announced almost weekly, and scientists flocked to exploit genetic research... It is necessary to emphasize how significant this shift in attitude actually was. In the past, pure scientists took a snobbish view of business. They saw the pursuit of money as intellectually uninteresting, suited only to shopkeepers. And to do research for industry, even at the prestigious Bell or IBM labs, was only for those who couldn't get a university appointment. Thus the attitude of pure scientists was fundamentally critical toward the work of applied scientists, and to industry in general. Their long-standing antagonism kept university scientists free of contaminating industry ties, and whenever debate arose about technological matters, disinterested scientists were available to discuss the issues at the highest levels. But that is no longer true. There are very few molecular biologists and very few research institutions without commercial affiliations. The old days are gone. Genetic research continues, at a more furious pace than ever. But it is done in secret, and in haste, and for profit.

The creation of corporate entrepreneurship is to cultivate the culture of innovation and build business competencies.

The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most unprofitable thing ever manufactured is an excuse.

The digital CIOs are mindful, not necessarily over-thinking, but imaginative, inquisitive, and innovative.

The digital Board will help set the principles to innovate talent management and embrace digital fitness.

The digital organization has a hybrid nature with flexibility, agility, and innovativeness.

The digital philosophy is to live as “customers,” when practicing IT management.

The future will be different from how they have told us

The first finding that jumped out at us was that it is possible to learn too much ! In the tournament, investing lots of time in learning was not at all effective. In fact, we found a strong negative correlation between the proportion of a strategy's moves that were INNOVATE or OBSERVE, as opposed to EXPLOIT, and how well the strategy performed. Successful strategies spent only a small fraction of their time (5-10%) learning, and the bulk of their time caching in on what they had learned, through playing EXPLOIT. Only through playing EXPLOIT can a strategy directly accrue fitness. Hencem every time a strategy chooses to learn new behavior, be it through playing INNOVATE or OBSERVE, there is a cost corresponding to the payoff that would have been received had EXPLOIT been played instead. This implied that the way to get on in life was to do a very quick bit of learning and then EXPLOIT, EXPLOIT, EXPLOIT until you die. That is a sobering lesson for someone like myself who has spent his whole life in school or university.

The future is a direction, not a destination.

The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created - created first in the mind and will, created next in activity.

The easiest thing on the life is to make question, but the difficulties one it’s to answer it.

The essence of “Being Hybrid” is about balance - to keep things going steadfastly.

The exercise of blending people’s problem-solving abilities to produce the desired outcome is a worthwhile thing to do.

The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader." - Quoting Derek Sivers

The function of the bridge is to mind the gap; the wonder of the bridge is to create a scene.

The future of organization has amazing digital traits such as adaptability, differentiated competency, innovation, customer-centricity, empathy, and participation.

The greatest discovery is self-discovery.

The greatest innovators and history makers of our world were not great because of the formal school system but because of self-development through the proper investment and conversation of time.

The Great Wall of Facebook: Having just visited the Great Wall of China, I'm thinking about the walls we build on FB. They are real. They keep people in and others out. Build your wall carefully by answering this question: What are you building your wall around?

The garage is the space for the hacker, the tinkerer, the maker. The garage is not defined by a single field or industry; instead, it is defined by the eclectic interests of its inhabitants. It is a space where intellectual networks converge.

The hard part of ReThinking, is most people don't usually do much normal REAL thinking anyway. They live their lives on automatic reaction.

The hybrid nature of innovation is a combination of something old with something new, with a mixed portfolio of incremental innovations and radical innovations.

The high-performing board shows the ability and openness to question itself and its decisions and discussions.

The inventor knows HOW to borrow.

The industrial-based enterprise of the 20th century had run out of gas, and the digital enterprise of the 21st century has the new characteristics and DNA of innovation.

The idea of innovation is the idea of progress stripped of the aspirations of the Enlightenment, scrubbed clean of the horrors of the twentieth century, and relieved of its critics.

The innovation classification is not just based on the required investments, or on the potential market, but on its evolution abilities.

The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.

The key is to build a continuous learning culture of experimenters versus specialists, where it's everyone's job to be accountable toward creating and capturing customer value.

The innovation indicators vary depending on who is doing the measuring, and how they are measuring. It’s contextual.

The less you use your brain, the less it will be there for use when you need it.

The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil.

The main benefit of innovation for your organization is not competitive advantage. It is survival.

The mindset, vision, competency, capability, culture and marketing opportunity are all great starting point for business model innovation.

The more good ideas you have, the more good ideas you will get.

The modern work world requires tremendous flexibility. Anticipate working in different positions and different organizations. Expect startups, disruptive innovation, reorganizations and moving on to new adventures. Grow and change.