Digital Business Quotes

#1. As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.

Bernie Sanders

#2. Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

Clement Mok

#3. Advertising is the life blood of the digital economy.

Nick Stringer

#4. The digital capability is synthetic in nature, embedding agility in processes and focusing on building the long-term business competency.

Pearl Zhu

#5. Strategy execution doesn't go for perfect, it's the core business capability needs to be sharpened for improving the business performance and maturity.

Pearl Zhu

#6. Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.

Carly Fiorina

#7. Most Internet business theorists are really looking at preserving the necks of giant, Fortune 500 companies, rather than promoting the digital, peer-to-peer economy that actually wants to happen.

Douglas Rushkoff

#8. Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.

John Sununu

#9. You cannot manage risk, or for that matter, build a risk management capability without first understanding the "business value of risk management.

Pearl Zhu

#10. Digitalization implies the full-scale changes in the way business is conducted so that it's a multi-dimensional planning and orchestration.

Pearl Zhu

#11. Bridging innovation gaps is a strategic imperative for business execution.

Pearl Zhu

#12. It's not about revenues: The fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.

Yuri Milner

#13. Though there are both hard and soft business elements in building organizational capabilities. Still, people are the capability masters.

Pearl Zhu

#14. I question the premise that digital is necessarily the enemy of traditional media. In many ways, it presents us with enormous opportunities.

Scott McDonald

#15. Digital Darinism is already changing the landscape of business.

Brian Solis

#16. Many American TV actors employ agents, managers, business managers, publicists and stylists, and are now adding digital media manager to the list. Their job is to reach out to the fans, managing websites, Twitter feeds, Facebook and Wikipedia.

Gina Bellman

#17. Each business is a victim of Digital Darwinism, the evolution of consumer behavior when society and technology evolve faster than the ability to exploit it. Digital Darwinism does not discriminate. Every business is threatened.

Brian Solis

#18. Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business? Kodak had the patents and a head start, but ignored all that.

Peter Diamandis

#19. Digital-savvy CIOs can envision the upcoming business trends and have both "sense and sensitivity" to understand people and lead effortlessly.

Pearl Zhu

#20. We are pushing ahead as fast as we can for all audiences, whether for the business user, the child, or the digital music enthusiast.

Jim Allchin

#21. IT needs to be the super-glue to bridge business silos and enable holistic decision-making.

Pearl Zhu

#22. One of the formulas to build a successful business is to nurture an "adaptability trait" in an organization's culture.

Pearl Zhu

#23. Overnight the digital age had changed the course of history for our company. Everything that we thought was in our control no longer was. But within a year we had invested in social media and digital experts. Now Starbucks is the number one brand on Facebook.

Howard Schultz

#24. The digital premium business content model is broken and we should all be taking appropriate steps now to ensure the viability of this business is preserved by other means.

David Moore

#25. The future of retail is the integration of Internet and digital services with the retail network.

Charles Dunstone

#26. To be honest, I've always made films and I never really stopped, starting with little stop-motion experiments using my dad's Super 8 camera. In my mind, it's all one big continuum of filmmaking and I've never changed.

Christopher J. Nolan

#27. There are two sets of business capabilities: Competitive necessity and competitive uniqueness.

Pearl Zhu

#28. To clear the path, whether that be the elimination of obstacles, closing the blind spots, or to provide guidance, so that the business as a whole can take a digital leap and unleash its full potential.

Pearl Zhu

#29. An intelligent organization is not about the "cleverness" of one analytics team but the insightful nature of the entire business.

Pearl Zhu

#30. The high-mature organizational capability is the digital business differentiator, to keep the business unique, competitive, innovative, and improve the overall business maturity significantly.

Pearl Zhu

#31. Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand

Robert Allen

#32. It is only by walking in the digital footsteps of your customer that you can uncover a new landscape of opportunities for engagement as well as a new reality for your business.

Brian Solis

#33. The business capability coherence is the decisive factor for the success of strategy implementation.

Pearl Zhu

#34. IT can coordinate all necessary business elements, either hard or soft, to orchestrate a digital symphony.

Pearl Zhu

#35. The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars.

James Surowiecki

#36. There is no time and space in the digital world. People chat and collaborate through social networks. Cultural icons garner millions of fans online in locations they have often never been themselves. The boundary between public and private life is now everyone's business.

Eduardo Paes

#37. We have the right assets for a fast-growing digital business.

Bernard Ebbers

#38. Gaining an in-depth understanding of business capabilities helps today's business leaders craft good strategy and implement it effectively.

Pearl Zhu

#39. In the real, physical world or business world, most relationships are nonlinear.

Pearl Zhu

#40. 5 Digital marketing aspects to grow your business

Ankit

#41. Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace.

Simon Mainwaring

#42. Average dies quicker than ever before. Digital doesn't mess around. It's binary.

David Hieatt

#43. The digital capability is modular, dynamic, and nonlinear, having many visible and invisible business elements, for improving organizational competency, and enabling business strategy.

Pearl Zhu

#44. IT has to provide both business and technological insight into how they bring success to the company as a whole transparently, holistically, and continually.

Pearl Zhu

#45. IT is the building block of the business capability when business -IT gaps are shrinking, and it would be the roadblock if the gaps are enlarging.

Pearl Zhu

#46. A business capability is the firm's ability to integrate, build, and reconfigure internal and external competences to address rapidly changing environments.

Pearl Zhu

#47. Red Interactive, the digital advertising agency, is a real, systemic kind of business, as opposed to a one-off thing. We can help advertisers frustrated by old media find clients they can work with.

Patrick Whitesell

#48. I don't think piracy is going to kill the music industry. But digital technology and the ability to download will change the packaging from CDs to a single-based business.

Richard Parsons

#49. The BoDs and business leaders must work with the right mindset to make good policies and create an inclusive organization with every dip in the business life cycle.

Pearl Zhu

#50. People can criticize Microsoft for supporting this TV thing for the past eight years, but it is a long-term bet, There is not any other software business that is as dedicated to the vision of the TV and the PDA [personal digital assistant] as we are.

Bill Gates

#51. The digital apocalypse continues to blight the lives of television producers, music-industry executives and newspaper publishers, all of whom are scrambling to figure out how to reconfigure their business models in such a way as to allow them to make an honest buck.

Terry Teachout

#52. Netiquette makes being a 'goody goody' online cool for everyone because we all have to get along.

David Chiles

#53. There are no easy answers for the balance of how you protect the core business of the books with what the digital future will look like, but that would be our job with DC Comics, to figure that out and experiment and take some risks while always protecting the core business.

Diane Nelson

#54. By digitizing a traditionally analog business model or process, we're effectively turning it into bits and atoms and enabling an infinite variety of possibilities.

Nicholas D. Evans

#55. The future of digital organizations is to be complex enough to act intelligently and nimble enough to adapt to the change promptly.

Pearl Zhu

#56. The digital business is a fantastic business to be in. The only thing you have to do is build a cost structure for a declining business, which is different from the structure for a growing business.

Antonio Perez

#57. In the digital economy, if you can't be trusted you have no business doing business.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#58. Pixar started as a company that sold a special computer for doing digital animation; it took a while till they got into the moviemaking business. Similarly, Starbucks originally sold only coffee beans and coffee equipment; they hadn't planned to sell coffee by the cup.

Reid Hoffman

#59. Defining your enterprise business capability is part art and part science, and building your business capabilities is more science than art.

Pearl Zhu

#60. The digital revolution is almost as disruptive to the traditional media business as electricity was to the candle business.

Ken Auletta

#61. The mobile phone acts as a cursor to connect the digital and physical.

Marissa Meyer

#62. When we think a thought enough times it becomes a belief and that belief becomes a pattern which, in turn, becomes how we live our lives.

Sherree Mongrain

#63. Always seek input from others to aide you in reaching the best possible decision for your business/start-up. This is due to entrepreneurship mostly being about taking calculated risks, and you will always create better strategies if more facts and information go into the decision-making process.

Luigi Wewege

#64. Social Media Strategy isn't rocket science...but it might as well be if you don't know what you're doing.

Sherree Mongrain

#65. The world moves fast. Business moves fast. Digital media moves extremely fast. It is far too easy to allow ourselves to be constantly blown from one trend to the next.

Shawn Amos

#66. Decision-making is a solid business capability to improve business responsiveness, agility, and competency.

Pearl Zhu

#67. I get the sense many people are unsure about their digital media allocation. Even those who believe they are progressive in their thinking wonder if they have got it right.

Mark Renshaw

#68. Bezos ultimately concluded that if Amazon was to continue to thrive as a bookseller in a new digital age, it must own the e-book business in the same way that Apple controlled the music business. "It is far better to cannibalize yourself than have someone else do it," said Diego Piacentini

Brad Stone

#69. Digital locks are roach motels: copyrighted works check in, but they don't check out. Creators and investors lose control of their business - they become commodity suppliers for a distribution channel that calls all the shots. Anti-circumvention isn't copyright protection: it's middleman protection.

Cory Doctorow

#70. Doing business in the digital age is predicated on doing the business of humanity well.

Dale Carnegie

#71. It is important to strengthen the weakest link, to ensure all important business elements integrated and knitted into ongoing organizational capabilities and unique business competency.

Pearl Zhu

#72. The evolving social and digital media platforms and highly innovative and relevant payment capabilities are causing seismic changes in consumer behavior and creating equally disruptive opportunities for business.

Howard Schultz

#73. The "artificial gap" between business and IT can be bridged via effective leadership, profound understanding, continuous learning, and improvement.

Pearl Zhu

#74. Rejecting the rules of late-stage tech-bubble venture-capital madness is a better, more resilient, and durable approach to business in a digital landscape. Who better to affirm this than one of the digital industry's most trusted news and analysis sources, PandoDaily.

Douglas Rushkoff

#75. My protest against digital has been me saying, "What's going to happen to film?" The result is that Kodak is out of business. That's a national tragedy. We've got to keep making film.

Oliver Stone

#76. Digital analytics is the analysis of qualitative and quantitative data from your business and the competition to drive a continual improvement of the online experience that your customers and potential customers have which translates to your desired outcomes (both online and offline).

Anonymous

#77. A multi-dimensional IT creates multi-level values to the business as a whole.

Pearl Zhu

#78. Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That's because technology and the Internet have transformed the business landscape forever. The fast-paced digital age has accelerated the need for companies to become agile.

Nolan Bushnell

#79. Innovation is a unique business capability to reinvent business, but not to reinvent the wheels

Pearl Zhu

#80. Digital age of business and world shall move up from apathy, to sympathy, to empathy.

Pearl Zhu

#81. IT can weave all crucial business elements such as people, process, and technology into organizational competencies for running a living and fluid digital organization.

Pearl Zhu