Quote |
Author |
Company |
Good job, but be sure to get to
work right away on a product
that will make this one
unsaleable. (said to the
person in charge upon the
completion of a new product)
|
Konosuke
Matsushita |
Panasonic |
What distinguishes the
outstanding competitors from
the rest? Two basic principles.
First, they understand that
constant innovation is the
key to a company's survival.
Being innovative some of the
time, in one or two areas, just
won't work. |
Andrall Pearson |
Harvard Business School |
You have just got to constantly focus
on innovation. And more competitors. You've got to constantly
produce more for less through intellectual capital. Shun the
incremental, and look for the quantum leap. |
Jack Welch |
GE |
Past success stories are generally not
applicable to new situations. We must continually
reinvent ourselves, responding to changing times with innovative
new business models. |
Akio Morita |
Sony |
What we've done to encourage
innovation is
make it ordinary. By that I mean we don't separate it from the rest of
our business. Many companies make innovation front-page news, and all that
special attention has a paradoxical effect. By serving it up as something
exotic, you isolate it from what's normal. You don't trumpet your ordinary
business. The same has to be true of innovation. For innovation to be
reliable, it needs to be addressed
systematically, like any business issue in which you define the problem
and then solve it. |
Craig Wynett |
Procter & Gamble |
To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling
technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it
requires
a lot of disciplines...
More |
Steve Jobs |
Apple |
We're focused on providing
innovations in software, driving
the continuous improvement for a
much better experience, and
there's a lot going on here that
speaks to this decade and what's
going to happen in this decade.
We can kind of sum it up in
terms of saying, "Yes, you can." |
Bill Gates |
Microsoft |
One of the surest ways to get a
job done more innovatively is,
quite simply, to
reorganize frequently. |
Ronald T. Kadish |
U.S. Department of Defense |