“In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.” AgeMajorsInnovationObsessionMassiveMultipleObsolescencePlanned Obsolescence Author:Marshall McLuhan
“Invention is the root of innovation. Innovation is the major force for change in the future.” ForceMajorsRootsInnovationInvention Author:Philippe Kahn
“In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - not in the classroom, where the old ways are taught, but in the factories and labs where new ways are wrought ... nothing has been so rare in recent years as an Ivy League graduate who has made a significant innovation in American enterprise.” WayYearsHas BeensMadeCompanyTaughtProductsMajorsCapitalismInnovationSignificantLeagueEnterpriseGraduatesFactoriesClassroomNew WaysLabsIvyProtagonistsOld WaysNew ProductsIvy League Author:George Gilder
“We need major investments for rebuilding the infrastructure of America in a very forward-looking way that reduces our dependence on foreign oil. It is a commitment to innovation, to science, to keep America number one and competitive and grow our manufacturing base.” WayNeedsAmericaGrowsNumbersMajorsCommitmentInnovationInvestmentOilDependenceInfrastructureManufacturingRebuildingForeign Oil Author:Nancy Pelosi
“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
“Innovation requires resources to invest, and you can see many companies pulling back and going into an intense protective mode in a major extended period of financial distress.” CompanyPeriodsMajorsResourcesInnovationFinancialIntensePullingDistressProtective Author:Peter Senge
“Nearly every major breakthrough innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided executions.” Has BeensMajorsInnovationStringsExecutionBreakthroughMisguided Author:Frans Johansson
“The consensus we arrived with States for amending the Constitution to implement GST is a major breakthrough. This alone has the potential to make India competitive and attractive for investment.” StatesMajorsIndiaConstitutionInnovationInvestmentAttractiveConsensusBreakthroughAmending The Constitution Author:Narendra Modi
“Europe is not one of the major powers. And Africa even less so of course. But Africa has what Europe lacks: space, human resources, and natural resources while Europe has the technological innovation that Africa lacks. Together we can become a power which can count in the future.” HumansTogetherCoursesNaturalSpaceMajorsResourcesEuropeInnovationTechnologicalNatural ResourcesHuman ResourcesTogether We Can Author:Abdoulaye Wade
“Lands' End has undergone three major changes over the past couple of decades. The first was the introduction of an 800 number, in 1978; the second was express delivery, in 1994; and the third was the introduction of a Web site, in 1995. The first two innovations cut the average transaction time-the time between the moment of ordering and the moment the goods are received-from three weeks to four days. The third innovation has cut the transaction time from four days to, well, four days.” FirstsWellsTwoEndsMomentsPastThreeNumbersFourCuttingWeekLandCoupleMajorsThirdsInnovationAverageDecadesGoodsSiteIntroductionDeliveryOver The PastTransactionsMajor Change Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“If one sentence were to sum up the mechanism driving the Great Stagnation, it is this: Recent and current innovation is more geared to private goods than to public goods. That simple observation ties together the three major macroeconomic events of our time: growing income inequality, stagnant median income, and the financial crisis.” IfsTogetherThreeSimpleGrowingEventsMajorsInnovationCrisisFinancialCurrentsSentencesDrivingIncomeObservationInequalityTiesOur TimeGoodsMechanismStagnationStagnantFinancial CrisisIncome InequalityOne SentenceMacroeconomicsMedian Author:Tyler Cowen
“With enough of us connecting heart with heart, center with center, innovation with innovation, prayer with prayer, through the internet and the noosphere, we can have a major impact on a more gentle transition toward the next stage of evolution.” HeartEnoughNextPrayerStageEvolutionInternetMajorsInnovationImpactGentleTransitionConnecting Author:Barbara Marx Hubbard
“We paired this announcement of the R&D [commitment] with the so-called Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which is 27 [major investors] saying, "Hey, we'll put significant money into [energy innovations] when they're ready to spin out probably into startup companies."” EnergyCompanyReadyMajorsCommitmentInnovationSignificantHeyInvestorsBreakthroughCoalitionsAnnouncements Author:Bill Gates
“When you jump on a city bus or roam the streets off the major thoroughfares you'll quickly learn that we have as many differences as similarities. And therein lie the greatest opportunities for innovation - our different ways of viewing the world and coming up with solutions!” WorldWayDifferentLyingOpportunityDifferencesCitiesStreetsMajorsSolutionsInnovationDifferent WaysBusSimilarityCity Bus Author:David Livermore
“We wanted to see how access to care can be expanded and service quality can be improved when one uses a participatory approach to program development. We showed that major changes become possible if you work in a participatory manner, listen to local people, diagnose what the problems are, provide training and identify where there are opportunities for mobilizing local resources to take action. In time leaders from other municipalities expressed interest in replication and the project succeeded in expanding innovations to three other areas.” PeopleIfsUseProblemCareActionWantedThreeOpportunityInterestQualityLeaderDevelopmentProjectsApproachMajorsTrainingResourcesAreasProgramInnovationAccessLocalsExpandingMunicipalityMajor ChangeQuality ServiceReplication Author:Ruth Simmons
“Desktop publishing was a big innovation that meant small groups or even poor societies could do their own publication without the capital investment in a major printing press. That's a big difference. Same is true of more advanced technologies - it can offer plenty of liberatory possibilities - can - but whether it does or not or whether it serves for coercion depends on socioeconomic decisions.” DoeBigsDifferencesDecisionPoorTechnologyGroupsPossibilityDependsOffersMajorsInnovationPressesInvestmentPlentyPublishingCoercionPublicationPrintingSmall GroupsPrinting PressDesktopAdvanced TechnologyCapital InvestmentDesktop Publishing Author:Noam Chomsky
“Take giant leaps. Too many companies are into incremental innovation. The only thing that moves markets is violent turns. Major differences. Don't get caught in the trap of small steps.” MovingTurnsDifferencesCompanyStepsMajorsInnovationCaughtViolentGiantsLeapTrapsSmall Steps Author:Michael J. Silverstein
“I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation is a symptom of there being no major national priority to advance a frontier.” JobsMajorsInnovationAbsencePrioritiesSymptomsFrontiers Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson