“I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many models to talk about innovation, there are so many typologies of innovation, and you have to find a good innovation metric that truly captures the innovation performance of a company.” ThinkingNeedsCompanyDisciplineModelsPerformancesInnovationCaptureMetricsTypology Author:Indra Nooyi
“To many of us now, computers, silicon chips, data processing, cybernetics, and all the other innovations of the dawning high technology age are as mystifying as the workings of the combustion engine must have been when that first Model T rattled down Main Street, U.S.A. But as surely as America's pioneer spirit made us the industrial giant of the 20th century, the same pioneer spirit today is opening up on another vast front of opportunity, the frontier of high technology.” FirstsHas BeensMadeAgeTodayAmericaSpiritOpportunityTechnologyStreetsCenturyFrontsComputerModelsInnovationOpeningDataGiantsEngines20th CenturyChipsFrontiersPioneersProcessingSiliconOpening UpCyberneticsMain StreetCombustionHigh TechnologyPioneer SpiritModel T Author:Ronald Reagan
“One of the major challenges facing creative individuals is that of building upon the continuity of human knowledge while achieving novel insights. ... On the one hand, to intensify an inquiry and develop a sense of commitment to a creative life, the learner needs models, teachers, and collaborators. On the other hand, the individual, while building upon the past, needs to transform it, and thus broaden his or her choices.” NeedsHumansHandsPastChoicesIndividualChallengesCreativityNovelCreativeTeacherAchieveBuildingMajorsModelsCommitmentInnovationInsightInquiryContinuityLearnersCollaboratorsHuman KnowledgeCreative Life Author:Vera John-Steiner
“Business model innovation is constant in this economy. You start with a vision of a platform. For a while, you think there's a line of sight, and then it's gone. There's suddenly a new angle.” ThinkingLinesVisionEconomyGoneModelsSightInnovationConstantPlatformsAngleBusiness Models Author:Beth Comstock
“The CEO should ask what he or she can do to raise the organization's curiosity quotient. One way to do this is to seek to learn more about current or prospective customers, not to figure out which segmentation model to slot them into, but to really understand them as human beings. Another is to live at the intersections where innovation magic occurs.” WayShouldHumansAsksCan DoHuman BeingsMagicFiguresModelsOrganizationInnovationRaisesCuriosityCurrentsCustomersOne WayCeoIntersections Author:Scott D. Anthony
“To fix the business, to bring it back to health, you must assimilate enough of the disruptive innovation to modernize the operating model without jettisoning your business model. This typically requires new leaders and definitely requires new (if temporary) rules. The CEO is the only person who can dictate the correct terms in a timely manner and maintain the enterprise's commitment to those terms for the duration of the rehabilitation effort.” IfsPersonsEnoughTermEffortLeaderModelsCommitmentInnovationEnterpriseTemporaryCeoDurationRehabilitationDisruptiveTimelyBusiness ModelsDisruptive Innovation Author:Geoffrey Moore
“Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.” EnergyBehindsPolicyProductsBenefitsModelsConceptsInnovationEnvironmentalRegulationTransportationLegislatorsBusiness ModelsGroundingBroadband Author:John Sununu
“In my experience, in the real-estate business past success stories are generally not applicable to new situations. We must continually reinvent ourselves, responding to changing times with innovative new business models.” RealStoriesPastSuccessChangeBusinessSituationModelsInnovationEstatesInnovativeRespondingBusiness ModelsInnovation And BusinessNew BusinessSuccess StoriesNew SituationsPast Success Author:Akira Mori
“The organizations of the future will increasingly depend on the creativity of their members to survive. Great Groups offer a new model in which the leader is an equal among Titans. In a truly creative collaboration, work is pleasure, and the only rules and procedures are those that advance the common cause.” CausesPleasureCommonLeaderCreativityCreativeGroupsDependsOffersEqualMembersModelsOrganizationInnovationCollaborationWorkplaceProceduresCreative WorkCreativity And InnovationBusiness InnovationInnovation And BusinessInspiration And CreativityTitansInnovation InspirationCreativity In BusinessCreativity And BusinessInspiration And InnovationCreative Collaboration Author:Warren G. Bennis
“We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either.” KnowsWorldShouldBelieveRealityCoursesModelsInnovationCustomersSubstitutesBeliveBusiness InnovationInnovation And Business Author:Steve Ballmer
“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.” HumansWellsSocialEconomicDevelopmentModelsResourcesInnovationHarmonySafetyRemainsTradePopulationCommittedOpeningWell BeingInclusionSolidarityHuman ResourcesCosta Rica Author:Laura Chinchilla
“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.” TodayCultureProcessGrowthProductsModelsInnovationManagementEfficiencyCeoBusiness Models Author:Ginni Rometty
“Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.” WorldWellsRolesTechnologyProductsModelsInnovationApplesRole ModelsArenaIphoneIpodsDominatingIpads Author:Al-Waleed bin Talal