|
Quote |
Author |
Company |
|
The
best way to predict the future
is to
invent
it. |
Alan Key |
Viewpoints |
|
The first test for any
innovation portfolio is
achieving
the right
balance between
stretch and strategic fit. If you engage in hyperreactiveness thinking and continually react to the latest market or
technological trend, rather than following a course until there is a
significant reason to change, you’ll fail. The key to avoiding such
short-term thinking is to maintain
strategic alignment
and test the assumptions that drive new products and
service decisions as you make these choices. |
Christopher Meyer |
Center for Business Innovation,
Cambridge |
|
One of the things that is most important for a company is to be very
clear about their strategy, so investors get to self-select as to
whether or not that's the right strategy for them. I think we've
done a very good job about being clear that we're a long-term
focused company. |
Jeff Bezos |
Amazon.com |
|
Jump to the
next curve. |
Guy Kawasaki |
Truemors |
|
We don’t have a
traditional strategy process,
planning process
like you’d find in
traditional technical companies. It allows Google to
innovate very, very quickly,
which I think is a real strength
of the company.
Google's 9 Notions of Innovation |
Eric Schmidt |
Google |
|
It's through curiosity and looking at
opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at
Dell. There's always an opportunity
to
make a
difference. |
Michael Dell |
Dell Inc. |
|
Mapping innovation activity
gives you a sense of the terrain
– the peaks and valleys in
investments and actions. |
Larry Keeley |
Doblin |
|
Employing people with diverse
skills and talents helps us
challenge the status quo when
developing
business strategies. |
Hal
Tovin |
Citizens Financial Group |
|
Even the best concepts of
strategies tend to develop
incrementally, They rarely ever
work the first time out or
unfold just as they were
planned. In fact, the
original concept or its
execution usually gets
changed considerably before it's
ready to be implemented broadly. |
Andrall Pearson |
Harvard Business School |
|
We,
we – as I say, we go in and
shake up other industries and I
think, you know, we do it
differently and I think that
industries are not quite the
same as a result of Virgin
attacking the market. |
Richard Branson |
Virgin Group |
|
Doing the things we do now and
doing them better, cheaper and
faster will take us so far. But
it will not take us far enough.
We're going to have to do new
things in new ways. |
Peter Bonfield |
British Telecom |
