I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Innovation has helped with problems in the past, e.g. whale oil use, horse manure in the streets, increasing grain yields. “When we innovate and find a cheap, technological solution, we solve major challenges and generate broadly shared benefits. We need to apply that lesson to the problem of climate change.”
“Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It's always come from individuals.”
“Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.”
“Innovation has stalled in the banking industry. While the rest of the world is in the digital age, banking remains stagnant. We are here to change this and bring banking to the 21st century. We will ensure our customers feel involved in the progress of this bank and are offering them a truly enjoyable banking experience – different from anything they have experienced before.”
“Innovation = Ideas + Execution + Adoption”
Source: The Bright Idea Box: A Proven System to Drive Employee Engagement and Innovation
“Innovation implies high risk, and with high risk comes failure, so you've got to be prepared for that, but if you don't risk, then your business goes stale very quickly.”
“Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at.”
“Innovation involves anticipation. It is having a broad base of knowledge on your subject and an ability to see where the end game is headed. Use all your knowledge to get their first. Set the trend and make the competition counter you”
“Innovation is a bottoms-up, decentralized, and unpredictable thing, but that doesn’t mean it cannot be managed.”
Source: The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
“Innovation is a crucial aspect of growth. Be open to novel concepts and follow a process that enables you to achieve your goals.”
Source: 365 Motivational Life Lessons
“Innovation is a discipline not a lottery... It comes from the combination of two elements within my control: hard work and openmindedness.”
“Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.”
“Innovation is a learned organizational capability. You must train people how to innovate and navigate organizational barriers that kill off good ideas before they can be tested.”
“Innovation is a mindset, and that’s where governance comes in.”
Source: Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
“Innovation is a subset of creativity. Innovation often deals with product launches and is often relegated to the C-suite or to heads of R&D departments. Innovation requires creativity, but creativity is something that is much more broad. It applies to people at all levels of an organization. Today, we all are responsible for delivering "everyday creativity". Small creative acts that add up to big things.”
“Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse.”
“Innovation is a unique business capability to reinvent business, but not to reinvent the wheels”
Source: Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency
“Innovation is about moving forward, and it can take you to a whole other place.”
Source: 100 Digital Rules
“Innovation is about practical creativity - it's about making new ideas useful...”
“Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.”
“Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.”
“Innovation is an important business capability to catalyze the business’s long-term prosperity.”
Source: 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices
“Innovation is an ongoing process that you build into your culture.”
“Innovation is an outgrowth of initiative, and initiative - taking positive actions in a belief that your actions can make a difference - is a big part of confidence.”
“Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.”
Source: Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative
“Innovation is born at the intersection of curiosity and courage. Those who dare to ask questions others ignore and experiment where others hesitate are the ones who shape the future. Success does not come from avoiding failure, but from learning to rise every time you fall.”
“Innovation is born from the interaction between constraint and vision.”
“Innovation is converting the dirt road into blacktop while creativity is constructing a new superhighway.”
“Innovation is deviance which means that the rebellious personality is a natural resource for practical creativity. As an innovator, you need to reject the old to establish a new, better, status quo. And one of the most powerful sources of newness is the rebel or maverick, mind.”
“Innovation is doubly hard inside big companies.”
“Innovation is essentially a management discipline.”
Source: 100 Digital Rules
“Innovation is everyones responsibility, not just R&Ds.”
“Innovation is everything. When you're on the forefront, you can see what the next innovation needs to be. When you're behind, you have to spend your energy catching up.”
“Innovation is fostered by information gathered from new connections; from insights gained by journeys into other disciplines or places; from active, collegial networks and fluid, open boundaries. Innovation arises from ongoing circles of exchange, where information is not just accumulated or stored, but created. Knowledge is generated anew from connections that weren't there before.”
Source: Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe
“Innovation is fueled by an organization's ability to manage change in the direction of evolution.”
Source: Quantraz
“Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.”
“Innovation is hard to schedule.”
“Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these were all considered toys at their introduction because they had no constituency. They were too new.”
“Innovation is important, but what kind of a moronic species races to put a man on the moon, before it takes its homeless off the streets!”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Innovation is key. Only those who have the agility to change with the market and innovate quickly will survive.”
“Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.”
“Innovation is new stuff that is made useful.”
Source: The Truth about Innovation
“Innovation is not a big breakthrough invention every time. Innovation is a constant thing. But if you don't have an innovative company [team], coming to work everyday to find a better way, you don't have a company[team]. You're getting ready to die on the vine. You're always looking for the next innovation, the next niche, the next product improvement, the next service improvement. But always trying to get better.”
“Innovation is not a quick fix. It often requires sustained investment and effort over a long period.”
Source: Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance
“Innovation is not always liked in its early stage until it becomes a public point of discussion and interest. Bitcoin was like the Internet of the early 20s, and today we all use it. Most aspects of our lives revolve around the internet, the same way blockchain technology and other decentralized apps (DApps) will become mainstream solutions to our world in the future.”
“Innovation is not born from the dream, innovation is born from the struggle”
“Innovation is not born out out of a committee; innovation is a fight. It’s messy, people die, but when the battle is over, something unimaginably significant has been achieved.”
“Innovation is not the exclusive province of New Economy companies.”
“Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.”
“Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.”