Quotes & Sayings About Innovation Management

Strategy has no value if your culture and leadership mindset are wrong — Tony Dovale

Innovation is the change, Change Management needs to be an integral part of innovation management. — Pearl Zhu

Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence. — Peter Drucker

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

More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation. — Seth Godin

The purpose of Innovation Management is not to promote innovation, but to manage innovation as a process. — Pearl Zhu

Management is simple, innovation is hard. — James Cook

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

The BoDs play the significant role in both Management Innovation and Innovation Management. — Pearl Zhu

Build a heterogeneous team to close three gaps in innovation management - idea gaps, collaboration gaps, and implementation gaps — Pearl Zhu

Innovation becomes possible only if people can step out of their comfort zone. — Pearl Zhu

Innovation happens at the intersection of people, process, technology, customers, and business ecosystem. — Pearl Zhu

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

In the innovation age customer experience is key. Your impression defines their expression — Fela Durotoye

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

Technological innovation is the successful implementation (in commerce or management) of a technical idea new to the institution creating it. — Lewis M. Branscomb

It only takes a little innovation. — W. Edwards Deming

Those who disrupt their industries change consumer behavior, alter economics, and transform lives. — Heather Simmons

When rate of problems is greater than rate of solutions, only radical changes can make the difference. — Sukant Ratnakar

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

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

Managers maintain the present while leaders create the future. — Orrin Woodward

If humans can live for 100 years, why do companies die so young. — Sukant Ratnakar

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

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

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

Management innovation has both hard elements such as process and metrics; and soft elements such as communication and culture. — Pearl Zhu

WHY has no value, if you cannot rethink resourcefulness in a limited context. — Tony Dovale

I balance my natural drive for speed and impact with a counterbalancing drive for significance, innovation and sustained customer intimacy. This involves slowing down and moving from transactive management, which focuses on speed, content, accuracy and productivity, to transformative leadership, which focuses on significance, context, authenticity and purpose. This critical shift requires constant diligence, discipline and practice. — Kevin Cashman

What is good customer service about then?

One word: caring.

Bad customer service happens when the employee doesn't care.

You could chalk it up to low wages or getting paid regardless of results. But that's not it either.

Hiring managers need to do two things and two things only:

1. Hire employees that ALREADY care and are ALREADY motivated.

2. Repeat step 1.

When this is done, everything changes.

People are happy on both sides of the table.

Costs for management and training plummet — Richie Norton

Rethink change: Make change management irrelevant through Appreciative Leadership Innovation focused Expectations (ALIFE) — Tony Dovale

The digital Board will help set the principles to innovate talent management and embrace digital fitness. — Pearl Zhu

Innovation is too important to leave solely in the hands of the management team without any Board oversight or guidance — Pearl Zhu

One remarkable part of the SnapTax story is what the team leaders said when I asked them to account for their unlikely success. Did they hire superstar entrepreneurs from outside the company? No, they assembled a team from within Intuit. Did they face constant meddling from senior management, which is the bane of innovation teams in many companies? No, their executive sponsors created an "island of freedom" where they could experiment as necessary. Did they have a huge team, a large budget, and lots of marketing dollars? Nope, they started with a team of five. What allowed the SnapTax team to innovate was not their genes, destiny, or astrological signs but a process deliberately facilitated by Intuit's senior management. — Eric Ries

Any change holds an opportunity. — Daniel Egger

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

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

Every organisation, not just business, needs 1 core competence: Tactical execution — Tony Dovale

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

Ingenuity is the ability to solve difficult problems, often in an original and creative way. — Pearl Zhu

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

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

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

If you continue doing what you have done in the past, you will get what you have received in the past. — Avinash Narula

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

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

To the disrupters go the spoils. — Heather Simmons

There are some designers who flash and burn - Courreges is an example of that. But he still marked fashion history. And I don't think that longevity is always a badge of honor. Modern brand management means that we are always celebrating birthdays, when what is exciting about fashion is innovation, not repetition. — Suzy Menkes

Exponential Results Requires Exponential Thinking and High Performance Teamworking with Growth Oriented Mindsets. — Tony Dovale

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

Truth be told, nobody thought Dell's direct business model would work, at least back in the early 90s. As Bill Sharpe, head of the advertising agency that held the Dell Canada account from 1996 to 2006, told me, "I had a business partner in California who said, we have a client, Dell. It sells computers over the phone, and ships them to you. I said, 'There's no way, who's gonna buy a computer over the phone? They're complicated. — Heather Simmons

A poor attitude does not do the body any favours. Smile and the world will smile back at you. — Maurice Duffy

Some people are natural inventors who prefer to work without the pressure and expectations of the later business phases. Others are ambitious and see innovation as a path toward senior management. Still others are particularly skilled at the management of running an established business, outsourcing, and bolstering efficiencies and wringing out cost reductions. People should be allowed to find the kinds of jobs that suit them best. — Eric Ries

An Appreciative inquiry Conversation is the catalyst for strengths based innovation. — Tony Dovale

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

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

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

You can not plan to make a discovery. You do not plan innovation. — W. Edwards Deming

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

Fifty years later, in the 1920s, the American DuPont Company independently set up a similar unit and called it a Developmental Department. This department gathers innovative ideas from all over the company, studies them, thinks them through, analyses them. Then it proposes to top management which ones should be tackled as major innovative projects. From the beginning, it brings to bear on the innovation all the resources needed: research, development, manufacturing, marketing, finance, and so on. It is in charge until the new product or service has been on the market for a few years. — Peter F. Drucker

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

Intuition matters but, pay more attention to the unconscious bias. — Pearl Zhu

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

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