Vijay Govindarajan Quotes & Sayings

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

Organizations are not designed for innovation. Quite the contrary, they are designed for ongoing operations. — Vijay Govindarajan

Companies over-emphasize idea generation and under-emphasize idea execution when it comes to innovation. — Vijay Govindarajan

The more you hardwire a company on total quality management, the more it is going to hurt breakthrough innovation, — Vijay Govindarajan

The innovation leader's job is to execute a disciplined experiment. — Vijay Govindarajan

We must think of innovation as doing a lot more for a lot less (money) for a lot more (people). — Vijay Govindarajan

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. — Vijay Govindarajan

Inside a big experiment, there are little experiments, — Vijay Govindarajan