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Innovation Quotes of the Day – May 11, 2012

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“Framing and reframing the right problem is perhaps the most important attribute of success. No pain (problem), no gain (solution).?”

– Sanjiv Karani

“You must find a way to create resource flexibility. Organizations that want to continue to grow and thrive must staff the organization in a way that allows managers to invest a portion of their employees’ time into promising innovation projects.”

– Braden Kelley

“Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.”

– Peter Drucker

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Innovation Quotes of the Day – May 10, 2012

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“Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.”

– Steve Jobs

“While an innovation vision determines the kinds of innovation that an organization, and an innovation strategy determines what the organization will focus on when it comes to innovation, it is the innovation goals that break things down into tangible objectives that employees can work against.”

– Braden Kelley

“Innovation is creativity with a job to do.”

– John Emmerling

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Innovation Quotes of the Day – May 9, 2012

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“Innovation, I think, should be about the balance between discipline and play. If we put too much emphasis on discipline, we risk of losing ‘inner creativity’.”

– Eric Antariksa

“Just as managers and employees need goals to know what to focus on and to help them be successful, organizations need innovation goals too. Clear innovation goals, when combined with a clear innovation strategy and a single-minded innovation vision for the organization, will maximize the instinctual innovation that emerges from employees and the intellectual innovation that occurs on directed innovation projects.”

– Braden Kelley

“Customers are innovating behind your back. Turn around.”

– Jason Fried, 37 Signals
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Innovation Quotes of the Day – May 8, 2012

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“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”

– Jack Welch

“An innovation strategy is not merely a technology roadmap from R&D or an agenda for new product development. Instead, an innovation strategy identifies who will drive a company’s profitable revenue growth and what will represent a strong competitive advantage for the firm going forward. Under this umbrella the innovation goals for the organization can be created.”

– Braden Kelley

“Innovation is part of a process that involves creating something new (invention), figuring out how to commercialize it (innovation) and then actually getting to adopt it (marketing)”

– Noah Brier, Percolate
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Innovation Quotes of the Day – May 7, 2012

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“Marketing isn’t a young person’s game. It’s a game for the endlessly curious. And it’s not enough to just be a smart marketer. You have to be smart enough to tackle new skills.”

– Christina Pappas

“If the world you’re living in is unacceptable, go open a whole new world!”

– Angela Lewis

“When people have questions, they tend not to move forward. For that reason it is crucial that an organization’s leadership both has a clear innovation vision, and clearly and regularly communicates it to key stakeholders. If employees, suppliers, partners, and customers aren’t sure what the innovation vision of the organization is, how can they imagine a better way forward?”

– Braden Kelley

“Innovation requires high potential ideas (the seeds) and an organization that can nurture and support them as they develop (the soil)”

– Jerry McColgin
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Innovation Quotes of the Day – May 6, 2012

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“If it is a good idea… go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.”

– Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

“If people in your organization don’t talk about innovation in a consistent way and see communications reinforcing the common language, how can you possibly hope to embed innovation in the culture of the organization?”

– Braden Kelley

“I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened of old ones.”

– John Cage

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Innovation Quotes of the Day – May 5, 2012

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“Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.”

– W. Edwards Deming

“Defining innovation as an organization is important because it helps you determine what kinds of innovation you are focusing on as an organization, and what kinds of innovation you ARE NOT focusing on.”

– Braden Kelley

“Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview – nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.”

– Stephen Jay Gould

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Innovation Quotes of the Day – May 4, 2012

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“The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.”

– Helen Keller

“The question is not whether someone is innovative or not, but what innovation roles does each person tend towards. Are all Nine Innovation Roles represented on your teams? Innovation is a team sport, and all nine roles are required for innovation success.”

– Braden Kelley

“In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.”

– Tim Bishop

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Innovation Quotes of the Day – May 3, 2012

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“In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we’re so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.”

– Dean Kamen

“I’m of the opinion that all people are creative, in their own way… I believe that all people excel at one of Nine Innovation Roles, and that when organizations put the right people in the right innovation roles, that your innovation speed and capacity will increase.”

– Braden Kelley

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

– Albert Einstein

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Innovation Quotes of the Day – May 2, 2012

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“One who fears limits his activities. Failure is the only opportunity to more intelligently begin again.”

– Henry Ford

“Too often we form innovation teams based on who is available instead of focusing on who will make the innovation team successful.”

– Braden Kelley

“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”

– John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

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