“Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it's a relay race.” InspirationMotivationSportsRaceSuccessfulTeamEventsInnovationSoloRunnersBreakthroughSports TeamSprintRelaysRelay Races Author:Nguyen Quyen
“You just have to change. To be successful, what you have to do is have an acceptance of risk and you have to be pretty explicit about that, because if you don’t accept risk, you don’t get any innovation. And that means part of risk is you have to accept failure because not everything works.” IfsMeanAcceptingSuccessfulRiskAcceptanceInnovationBeing SuccessfulExplicit Author:Michael Dell
“In America, what makes us so successful is the innovation, the competition, the focus on merit.” AmericaSuccessfulFocusInnovationCompetitionMerit Author:Joel Klein
“The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind.” StatesUseGovernmentLeftCommunityPowerfulNumbersBehindsSuccessfulCollegeIndustryProgramInnovationWorkersMost PowerfulLeft BehindManufacturingLarge NumbersMichiganCommunity College Author:Jennifer Granholm
“Successful innovation has consistently proved to be fluid and flexible, fast and furious - that is, passionate.” SuccessfulInnovationPassionateConsistentlyFlexibleFluidFurious Author:Robert Heller
“Technological innovation is the successful implementation (in commerce or management) of a technical idea new to the institution creating it.” IdeasSuccessfulCreatingInnovationManagementInstitutionsCommerceTechnologicalImplementation Author:Lewis M. Branscomb
“Change masters are - literally - the right people in the right place at the right time. The right people are the ones with the ideas that move beyond the organization's established practice, ideas they can form into visions. The right places are the integrative environments that support innovation, encourage the building of coalitions and teams to support and implement visions. The right times are those moments in the flow of organizational history when it is possible to reconstruct reality on the basis on accumulated innovations to shape a more productive and successful future.” PeopleIdeasMomentsRealityMovingFormVisionPracticeSupportSuccessfulEnvironmentTeamBuildingMastersShapesFlowOrganizationBasesInnovationProductiveRight TimeRight PlaceCoalitionsOrganizational Book:Change Masters Source: Change Masters
“It is commonly believed that innovations create changes - but few ever do. Successful innovations exploit changes that have already happened.” SuccessfulHappenedInnovationExploits Author:Peter Drucker