“If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.” IfsKnowsWantNeedsShouldWaitingHalfLeaderStepsPlansLateInnovationCustomersConsumersToo LateBusiness LeadersGood Business Author:Stuart Rose
“Designers are by nature more inquisitive, more connected. They dig a little deeper in terms of insights. They turn those insights into innovation. That connection to the consumer is absolutely critical in driving innovation. It’s critical that design isn’t subjugated to the back room as a short order cook for marketing or for merchandising or sales. It has to be up front.” LittlesOrderTurnsTermRoomsFrontsDesignConnectionsInnovationMarketingDeeperInsightConnectedCriticalDrivingConsumersCooksDesignerInquisitiveMerchandising Author:Mark Parker
“The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.” StillsSocialImagineImpossibleObjectsProductsInnovationEverydayDumbConsumersDigitalPaceAstonishingSocial NetworkSmartphonesEveryday Objects Author:Andy Hobsbawm
“Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!” EndsProcessCompanyDesignFemaleInnovationConsumersEmployeeTargetUsersEmpoweredMarketplaceLikelihoodUtilizing Author:Indra Nooyi
“Setting an aggressive enough carbon-reduction goal will result in an appropriate price for carbon and will help many a renewable technology. Consumer education will help. Most importantly, though, will be the continually declining cost trajectory of the real breakthrough in clean-technology costs driven by research and innovation. In the end, private capital is the real barometer of change.” RealEndsEnoughHelpingGoalResultsTechnologyCostResearchInnovationCleanDrivenSettingSettingsConsumersAppropriateAggressiveCarbonBreakthroughReductionTrajectoryBarometerResearch And Innovation Author:Vinod Khosla
“Many innovations fail because consumers irrationally overvalue the old while companies irrationally overvalue the new.” CompanyFailingInnovationConsumers Book:Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
“Building a smarter grid has long been a key part of our government's plan to modernize our energy infrastructure and provide clean, reliable affordable power to consumers. By supporting Ryerson's Centre for Urban Energy we are building a whole new landscape for innovations that will be the backbone for our energy system for future generations.” LongWholeGovernmentEnergyPlansGenerationsBuildingKeysInnovationCleanConsumersLandscapeSmarterUrbanCentreInfrastructureFuture GenerationAffordableBackboneGrids Author:Bob Chiarelli
“Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.” MenMadeSoulEndsPlayTogetherCreativityDesignCreationColorProductsShapesElementsComputerEssenceInnovationFundamentalsConsumersLayersShellsFinestWorkplaceImac Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs
“A very complicated mass of things influences the economy - the speculative effect, government policy, consumer borrowing and spending, the level of technical innovation (which I concede, although everyone emphasizes it too much), and much more - including, of course, the rate of inflation.” GovernmentCoursesLevelsEconomyToo MuchInfluenceEffectsPolicyMassInnovationRateIncludingComplicatedSpendingConsumersInflationBorrowingGovernment Policy Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“Technological innovation has dramatically lowered the cost of computing, making it possible for large numbers of consumers to own powerful new technologies at reasonably low prices.” PowerfulNumbersTechnologyCostLowsInnovationConsumersTechnologicalNew TechnologyLarge NumbersComputing Author:James Surowiecki
“The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make become increasingly complex. They require the longer-term thinking and greater tolerance for ambiguity that science fosters. The new economy is predicated on a continuous pipeline of scientific and technological innovation. It can not exist without workers and consumers who are mathematically and scientifically literate.” ThinkingChoicesTermDecisionEconomyDemocracyGreaterWiseCapableInnovationComplexesWorkersNotionToleranceConsumersAspirationTechnologicalCan NotAmbiguityCitizenryPipelineWise DecisionInformed Citizenry Author:Ann Druyan
“New product and new types of service are generated, not by asking the consumer, but by knowledge, imagination, innovation, risk, trial and error on the part of the producer, backed by enough capital to develop the product or service and to stay in business during the learn months of introduction.” EnoughImaginationBusinessRiskProductsTypeMonthsInnovationAskingErrorsTrialsProducersConsumersIntroductionTrial And ErrorNew Products Author:W. Edwards Deming
“The answer is the disruptive innovator, an outsider, who creates a product or service for the non-existing consumer in a non-existing market for almost no profit.” AnswersProductsInnovationProfitConsumersOutsidersInnovatorsDisruptive Author:Clayton Christensen