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Quote |
Author |
Company |
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Keep it simple. Innovations have
to be handled by ordinary human
beings. Anything too clever ,
whether in design or execution,
is almost bound to fail. |
Peter Drucker |
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Any project
that is good enough to make it to Labs probably has a kernel of
something interesting in there somewhere, even if the market doesn't
respond to it. It's our job to take the product and morph it into
something that
the market needs.
Google's 9 Notions of Innovation |
Eric Schmidt |
Google |
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Researchers always want to go
for that last 2% of performance.
But it's better to get a
sufficient solution out fast and
then continue to enhance it. |
Mark Dean |
IBM |
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Sometimes when you innovate, you
make mistakes. It is best to
admit them quickly, and get on
with improving your other
innovations...
More |
Steve Jobs |
Apple |
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Innovation is like professional
sports: it looks easy , but when
you are on the field, you see
how complicated and difficult it
is. |
Luciano Malani |
CERN |
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Failure is an opportunity to begin
again more intelligently. |
Henry Ford |
Ford Motor |
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The
practice of R&D involves making
mistakes, realizations,
corrections, and more mistakes.
Trial and error is a fundamental
part of the process. Too many
managers in corporate America
learn to avoid invention and new
thinking because they have been
convinced that their careers
depend upon not making mistakes. |
Tom
Huff |
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Learning from mistakes and
constantly
improving products is a key in all successful companies.
Listening to customers is a big
part of that effort. You have to study what customers say about their
problems with your products and stay tuned into what they want,
extrapolating from leading-edge buyers to predict future requirements |
Bill Gates |
Microsoft |
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Organizations, by their very
nature are designed to promote
order and routine. They are
inhospitable environments for
innovation. |
Theodore
Levitt |
Harvard Business School |
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Creativity
is the generation
and initial development of new,
useful ideas.
Innovation is the successful
implementation of those
ideas in an organization.
Thus, no innovation is possible
without the creative processes
that mark the front end of the
process: identifying important
problems and opportunities,
gathering relevant information,
generating new ideas, and
exploring the validity of those
ideas. |
Teresa Amabile |
Harvard Business School |
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The team stair-stepped to market,
never investing ahead of
learning. |
Bruce Brown |
Procter & Gamble |
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Innovation recipe: 1% of
Invention + 99% of
Entrepreneurial Action. |
Vadim Kotelnikov |
Innovarsity |
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The innovation process is
similar to jazz: provide a
guiding structure and encourage
improvisation...
More |
Vadim Kotelnikov |
Innovarsity |
