Quotes About Innovation Management

#1. The BoDs play the significant role in both Management Innovation and Innovation Management.

Pearl Zhu

#2. The very nature of open innovation is to take advantage of all sources of creativity in a more open way and make a leap of innovation management to the next level.

Pearl Zhu

#3. Innovation is the change, Change Management needs to be an integral part of innovation management.

Pearl Zhu

#4. The purpose of Innovation Management is not to promote innovation, but to manage innovation as a process.

Pearl Zhu

#5. Build a heterogeneous team to close three gaps in innovation management - idea gaps, collaboration gaps, and implementation gaps

Pearl Zhu

#6. WHY has no value, if you cannot rethink resourcefulness in a limited context.

Tony Dovale

#7. In the innovation age customer experience is key. Your impression defines their expression

Fela Durotoye

#8. The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy.

Max McKeown

#9. 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

#10. If humans can live for 100 years, why do companies die so young.

Sukant Ratnakar

#11. Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.

Peter Drucker

#12. Like time-management, change-management, doesn't really exist antmore ... Today's most valuable mindset must include the SWIFTA framework the be a change-driver.

Tony Dovale

#13. You can not plan to make a discovery. You do not plan innovation.

W. Edwards Deming

#14. A poor attitude does not do the body any favours. Smile and the world will smile back at you.

Maurice Duffy

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

Vijay Govindarajan

#16. Management innovation has both hard elements such as process and metrics; and soft elements such as communication and culture.

Pearl Zhu

#17. Innovation becomes possible only if people can step out of their comfort zone.

Pearl Zhu

#18. 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

#19. The challenge for the IT leader is to set the right priority, manage the limited budget and resource, to "Do more with innovation.

Pearl Zhu

#20. Instead of freaking out about these constraints, embrace them. Let them guide you. Constraints drive innovation and force focus. Instead of trying to remove them, use them to your advantage.

37 Signals

#21. Technological innovation is the successful implementation (in commerce or management) of a technical idea new to the institution creating it.

Lewis M. Branscomb

#22. Management is simple, innovation is hard.

James Cook

#23. An Appreciative inquiry Conversation is the catalyst for strengths based innovation.

Tony Dovale

#24. More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation.

Seth Godin

#25. Intuition matters but, pay more attention to the unconscious bias.

Pearl Zhu

#26. It only takes a little innovation.

W. Edwards Deming

#27. Innovative ideas aren't generated in structured, authoritarian environments but in an adaptive culture based on the principles of self-organization and self-discipline.

Jim Highsmith

#28. Your habit of avoiding mental and emotional discomfort is your #1 reason for your being stuck where you are in life.

Tony Dovale

#29. Every organisation, not just business, needs 1 core competence: Tactical execution

Tony Dovale

#30. Exponential Results Requires Exponential Thinking and High Performance Teamworking with Growth Oriented Mindsets.

Tony Dovale

#31. Nobody thought the direct business model would work. But work it did, and spectacularly. Until it didn't. And therein lies the tale.

Heather Simmons

#32. Innovation can start with wanting what does not yet exist - and finding a solution - or seeing what does not yet exist - and finding an opportunity.

Max McKeown

#33. If you continue doing what you have done in the past, you will get what you have received in the past.

Avinash Narula

#34. Innovation happens at the intersection of people, process, technology, customers, and business ecosystem.

Pearl Zhu

#35. Rethink change: Make change management irrelevant through Appreciative Leadership Innovation focused Expectations (ALIFE)

Tony Dovale

#36. The limits to innovation have nothing to do with creativity, and nothing to do with technology. They have everything to do with management capability.

Ray Stata

#37. For CEOs today, it's all about acheieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models. process, culture and management.

Ginni Rometty

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

Pearl Zhu

#39. The game is never over. The universe has a pretty good knowledge management system and stores every new idea, every innovation ever attempted in its bottomless ledgers.

Rohit Prasad

#40. While political and cultural factors are important as explanations for differences in national technology policy and industrial practices, emergent trends in science, engineering and management are leading to new paradigms for high-technology innovation in both Japan and the United States.

Lewis M. Branscomb

#41. A $10,000 investment in Dell at its 1988 initial public offering would have yielded a fortune of ~$6 million at the stock's peak.

Heather Simmons

#42. A responsive IT means a lot of things for the digital transformation: Speed, innovation, agility, integration, modernization, intelligence, value creation, and maturity, etc

Pearl Zhu

#43. When rate of problems is greater than rate of solutions, only radical changes can make the difference.

Sukant Ratnakar

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

Pearl Zhu

#45. Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.

Gary Hamel

#46. Managers maintain the present while leaders create the future.

Orrin Woodward

#47. Those who disrupt their industries change consumer behavior, alter economics, and transform lives.

Heather Simmons

#48. Innovation is too important to leave solely in the hands of the management team without any Board oversight or guidance

Pearl Zhu

#49. IF we don't start to rethink how we are acting now ... We will pay the price later for our "old-stinking-thinking" style

Tony Dovale

#50. Ingenuity is the ability to solve difficult problems, often in an original and creative way.

Pearl Zhu

#51. Knowing that an asteroid is going to hit the earth is not really useful if you are not planning to launch missiles to knock it out of the sky. You have to work massively overtime on the belief that innovation or massive change is going to happen.' - Tom Martin, former VP of marketing

Heather Simmons

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

Tony Dovale

#53. To the disrupters go the spoils.

Heather Simmons

#54. The real problem is that most people fear failure, and thus take no action. They really they should be fearful of their thoughts that cause their failure to take action!

Tony Dovale

#55. Any change holds an opportunity.

Daniel Egger

#56. Jews believe that people are creators, not consumers. The role of humans is to improve and perfect God's creations through work, creation, and innovation.

H.W. Charles

#57. Strategy has no value if your culture and leadership mindset are wrong

Tony Dovale