Vijay Govindarajan Quotes

#1. Inside a big experiment, there are little experiments,

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#2. We must think of innovation as doing a lot more for a lot less (money) for a lot more (people).

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#3. The innovation leader's job is to execute a disciplined experiment.

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#4. One, state a hypothesis. Two, predict what will happen. Three, measure results. Four, assess lessons learned by comparing your predictions to actual outcomes.

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#5. The more you hardwire a company on total quality management, the more it is going to hurt breakthrough innovation,

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#6. Organizations are not designed for innovation. Quite the contrary, they are designed for ongoing operations.

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#7. Companies over-emphasize idea generation and under-emphasize idea execution when it comes to innovation.

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#8. The mindset that is needed, the capabilities that are needed, the metrics that are needed, the whole culture that is needed for discontinuous innovation, are fundamentally different.

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