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“We are building a special capability at Schering-Plough to respond to these and other challenges with innovation, speed and flexibility. We aspire to continue being the company delivering the most positive change of any in our peer group, as we work to deliver our Turnaround and advance our six- to eight-year Action Agenda for transformational change.”

Years Action Challenges Company Groups Special Building Six Innovation Eight Speed Agendas Capability Peers Aspire Flexibility Delivering Positive Change Turnaround Peer Group

Author:Fred Hassan

“People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know.”

People Knows Ideas Fit Innovation Abstract Rejects

Book:Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

Source: Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

“Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.”

Seems Battle Innovation Inevitable Retrospect Uphill Battles

Book:Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

Source: Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

“The best antidote to the disruptive power of innovation is overregulation.”

Innovation Antidote Disruptive

Book:The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

Source: The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

“Gordon Nelson is not only my friend, he's my mentor. He is a master craftsman with unique experience, and an approach to creativity that we can all learn from. For any hairdresser looking for enlightenment, look no further than a man who worked at the original Vidal Sassoon Salon, and who continues to strive for innovation in the industry.”

Men Looks Creativity Masters Industry Approach Unique Enlightenment My Friends Innovation Originals Strive Mentor Nelson Craftsman Salons Hairdresser Unique Experiences

Author:Nick Arrojo

“To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.”

World Inspiration Innovation Athlete Inspiration And Innovation

Author:Bill Bowerman

“We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

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Author:Walt Disney

“Mastering the art of asking questions is essential to creativity and innovation. A More Beautiful Question should be standard reading for all aspiring design thinkers as well an inspiration to those searching for a life of curiosity and meaning.”

Should Wells Art Inspiration Beautiful Reading Creativity Design Essentials Standards Innovation Asking Curiosity Thinker Asking Questions Creativity And Innovation

Author:Tim Brown

“Costa Rica remains peacefully and firmly committed to the well- being and safety of our population. We promote a model of development based upon harmony with nature; solidarity and social inclusion; economic and trade opening; development of our human resources, and innovation.”

“Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or 'improving' nature, this respectful imitation is a radically new approach, a revolution really. Unlike the Industrial Revolution, the Biomimicry Revolution introduces an era based not on what we can extract from nature, but on what we can learn from her.”

Revolution Approach Innovation Inspired Eras Introducing Imitation Improving Accustomed Respectful Dominating Industrial Revolution New Approach Biomimicry

Book:Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

Source: Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

“The usability tests we have conducted during the last year have shown an increasing reluctance among users to accept innovations in Web design. The prevailing attitude is to request designs that are similar to everything else people see on the Web.”

People Years Lasts Attitude Accepting Design Tests Innovation Users Last Year Request Prevailing Reluctance Usability Web Design

Author:Jakob Nielsen

“Our hope is to support projects that promote the personal and educational development of young people through creative programs that embrace innovation while celebrating rich traditions and cultural exchange”

People Young Support Creative Rich Development Projects Program Tradition Innovation Embrace Educational Celebrate Cultural Exchange

Author:Elisa Sednaoui

“The need for innovation – the lifeblood of business – is widely recognized, and imagination and play are key ingredients for making it happen.”

Needs Play Happens Imagination Keys Innovation Ingredients

Author:John Seely Brown

“Innovation means replacing the best practices of today with those of tomorrow.”

Mean Today Practice Tomorrow Innovation Best Practices

Author:Paul Sloane

“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.”

Today Culture Process Growth Products Models Innovation Management Efficiency Ceo Business Models

Author:Ginni Rometty

“Marketing is about innovation.”

Innovation Marketing

Author:Beth Comstock

“If you look at innovation, it doesn't just occur in the lab.”

Ifs Looks Innovation Labs

Author:Michael Dell

“Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.”

Thinking Needs Real Happens Care Innovation Bottom Health Care Delivery

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“It's impossible to have a coin with only one side. You can't have heads without tails. Innovation is like that. Initiative is like that. Art is like that. You can't have success unless you're prepared to have failure. As soon as you say, 'failure is not an option,' you've just said, 'innovation is not an option.'”

Art Said Sides Impossible Art Is Innovation Prepared Initiative Tails Coins Failure Is Not An Option

Author:Seth Godin

“Innovation is not born from the dream, innovation is born from the struggle”

Dream Born Struggle Innovation

Author:Simon Sinek

“The luxury of today is the necessity of tomorrow. Every advance first comes into being as the luxury of a few rich people, only to become, after a time, an indispensable necessity taken for granted by everyone. Luxury consumption provides industry with the stimulus to discover and introduce new, things. It is one of the dynamic factors in our economy. To it we owe the progressive innovations by which the standard of living of all strata of the population has been gradually raised.”

Source: Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist

“By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.”

Middle Internet Innovation Edges Platforms World Wide Web

Author:Vinton Cerf

“The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.”

Years Humans Important Hands Inspiration Motivation Next Innovation Medicine Healthcare Human Hands

Author:Abraham Verghese

“An innovator is one who does not know it cannot be done.”

Knows Doe Done Inspiration Motivational Motivation Innovation Innovators Active Minds

Author:Raghunath Anant Mashelkar

“When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation. If you kill innovation in fundraising, you can't raise more revenue. If you can't raise more revenue, you can't grow. And if you can't grow, you can't possibly solve large social problems.”

Ifs Problem Inspiration Motivation Social Grows Innovation Raises Solve Revenue Social Problems Fundraising

Author:Dan Pallotta

“Univa developing and supporting Grid Engine is welcome news for the GE community. This move by Univa brings with it a new competitive spirit and sense of innovation to a market that continuously benefits from pushing the envelope.”

Moving Spirit Community Benefits News Innovation Welcome Developing Pushing Engines Envelopes Grids Pushing The Envelope Competitive Spirit

Author:Ian Foster

“Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.”

Way Two Together Innovation Two Things New Ways Innovation And Leadership

Author:Tom Freston

“The issue is Kinkade's ideology, and particularly his nostalgia; his paintings endlessly trumpet a nonexistent past when times were simpler and morality more pure. There's nothing wrong with this, but it stands at odds with a contemporary art world that looks to the future for inspiration. We value complexity and innovation, and distrust saccharine pictures of the past.”

“One shouldn’t believe in all those so-called innovations. There is only one nature and only one way to see it. Nowadays, they want to succeed too fast, this is how they go about inventing new aesthetics, pointillism, pipisme! All this is just to make noise.”

Way Want Believe Succeed Innovation Noise One Way Aesthetics Inventing Pointillism

Author:William-Adolphe Bouguereau

“If something seems possible, that's probably because someone is already doing it. When something seems that it can't possibly work, nobody tries it. Real innovation happens when someone tries anyway, overlooking an obvious flaw, and finds a way to make an idea work.”

Ifs Way Trying Ideas Real Seems Happens Innovation Obvious Flaws Overlooking

Author:Joel Spolsky

“People who should be the first to recognize the value of an innovation are often the last.”

People Should Firsts Lasts Values Innovation

Author:Douglas Crockford

“Ben and I built Ben & Jerry’s on the idea that business has a responsibility to the community and environment If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It’s a process of innovation If we were going to have a business we were going to have one that was consistent with our values We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line.”

“Part of the challenge of innovation is coming up with the problem to solve, not just its solution.”

Problem Challenges Solutions Innovation Solve

Book:The Myths of Innovation

Source: The Myths of Innovation

“Innovation is the creation and delivery of new customer value in the marketplace.”

Values Creation Innovation Customers Marketplace Delivery

Author:Michael J. Gelb

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

Creativity Technology Limits Innovation Management Capability

Author:Ray Stata

“Diversity drives innovation – when we limit who can contribute, we in turn limit what problems we can solve.”

Problem Turns Limits Diversity Innovation Solve

Author:Telle Whitney

“Our government is pleased to welcome MANA to Ontario, and were thrilled to announce renewed steel production and workers back on the job in Hamilton. Global leaders such as MANA choose to invest in Ontario because of our competitive business environment, skilled workforce and focus on innovation.”

Government Jobs Leader Environment Focus Innovation Workers Productions Welcome Steel Workforce Hamilton Ontario Business Environment

Author:Sandra Pupatello

“The regulatory systems in place disincentive innovation. It's intense to fight the red tape.”

Fighting Red Innovation Intense Tape Red Tape

Author:Travis Kalanick

“I never thought innovation as such was very important. Not when you have to think about it... If you're going to come up with a new direction or a really new way to do something, you'll do it by just playing your stuff and letting it ride. The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.”

Ifs Thinking Way Important Real Stuff Innovation Come Up New Ways Just Being Innovators New Directions

Author:Count Basie

“Innovative ideas are rarely rejected on their merits; they’re rejected because of how they make people feel. If you forget people’s concerns and feelings when you present an innovation, or neglect to understand their perspectives in your design, you’re setting yourself up to fail.”

People Ifs Feels Ideas Feelings Forget Failing Design Perspective Concern Innovation Setting Settings Merit Neglect Rejected Innovative Innovative Ideas

Book:The Myths of Innovation

Source: The Myths of Innovation

“It may not be possible to 'win the future,' in President Obama's words, but if we're going to encourage more innovation, it's not enough for us to just dig in and work harder. We also need to encourage surprise and serendipity. We need to play each other's instruments.”

Ifs Needs May Enough Play Winning President Hard Work Harder Innovation Instruments Surprise President Obama Work Harder Serendipity

Author:Steven Johnson

“Innovation is everyones responsibility, not just R&Ds.”

Responsibility Innovation

Author:Albert Einstein

“NIKE is focused on elevating and accelerating innovation in our products, services and our digital ecosystem. This requires progressive and agile technology solutions that keep pace with our growth, which is what Juniper's solutions offer.”

Growth Technology Products Offers Solutions Innovation Focused Digital Progressive Pace Ecosystems Nike Elevating

Author:Anthony Watson

“To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.”

Values Successful Creation Innovation Being Successful Capture

Author:Jay Samit

“Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.”

Leadership Learning Innovation Improvement Something New Something Better

Author:Andy Hargreaves

“To be young and aware is to know you’re being lied to; to know that a bright green future is possible; to know that we can reimagine the world, rebuild our cities, redesign our lives, retool our factories, distribute innovation and creativity and all live in a world that is not only better than the alternative, but much better than the world we have now.”

Knows World Young Cities Creativity Our Lives Innovation Green Alternatives Factories Lied Be Young Creativity And Innovation Being Lied Redesign

Author:Alex Steffen

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

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Author:Peter Drucker

“People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.”

“Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.”

Source: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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