"The ability to innovate is only as good as how one can accept changes and take risks."
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-- Franco Paolo Liu Eisma 10/31/2006
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"The practice of R&D involves making mistakes, realizations, corrections, and more mistakes. Trial and error is a fundamental part of the process. Too many managers in corporate America learn to avoid invention and new thinking because they have been convinced that their careers depend upon not making mistakes."
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-- Tom Huff 5/23/2006
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"Never innovate to compete, innovate to change the rules of the game."
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-- David O. Adeife 8/5/2005
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"Today more than ever, we must cultivate the creative and innovative potential of every employee in the organization. Everyone in the organization must be capable of thinking creatively and be willing to try new approaches which transcend their own roles, departments and processes."
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-- Andrew Papageorge, in GoInnovate! 1/28/2005
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"The primary purpose of leadership is to give your customers the ability to do what they can't do, but would have wanted to do if only they knew they could have done it."
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-- Daniel Burrus 1/12/2005
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"Organizations that successfully promote ideas have found that the performance of their idea systems is directly related to important aspects of their cultures -- such as trust, respect, morale, involvement and teamwork. They discovered that when employees see that their thinking is valued, attitudes change, and the corporate culture improves. This has a profound effect on performance and the quality of the lives of everyone in the organization."
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-- Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder, in 'Ideas Are Free' 7/8/2004
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"The constant flow of small ideas gets everyone accustomed to dealing with them as a regular part of their work. People grow accustomed to experiencing change and to seeing the benefits of it. Consequently, when someone does have a big idea, he or she is far more likely to welcome it and handle it well."
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-- Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder, in 'Ideas Are Free' 7/8/2004
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"Large numbers of small ideas allow an organization to reach levels of performance that are otherwise unachievable. Without them, it is impossible to attain excellence."
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-- Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder, in 'Ideas Are Free' 7/8/2004
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"Every improvement or innovation begins with an idea. But an idea is only a possibility -- a small beginning that must be nurtured, developed, engineer, tinkered with, championed, tested, implemented and checked… ideas have no value until they are implemented."
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-- Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder, in 'Ideas Are Free' 7/8/2004
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"Organizations today must not only out-gun and out-hustle competitors, they must also out-think them. Companies win with ideas."
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-- Thomas Davenport, Babson College 7/8/2004
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"All ideas must have passionate advocates behind them -- people who understand that business improvement initiatives are vital to a company's success. These idea practitioners are the critical links between ideas and action."
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-- Thomas Davenport, Babson College 7/8/2004
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“An idea cannot take hold in an organization unless it is well-timed."
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-- Thomas Davenport, Babson College 7/8/2004
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"Confident organizations adopt ideas not necessarily when others tout them, but when they're truly needed."
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-- Thomas Davenport, Babson College 7/8/2004
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"Ideas are the engines of progress. They improve people's lives by creating better ways to do things. They build and grow successful organizations and keep them healthy and prosperous. Without the ability to get new ideas, an organization stagnates and declines and will eventually be eliminated by competitors who do have fresh ideas."
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-- Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder, in 'Ideas Are Free' 6/2/2004
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"There is a clear link between an organization's ability to tap ideas and its overall performance."
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-- Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder, in 'Ideas Are Free' 6/2/2004
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"Organizations are in large part shaped by the way people think and interact. To make organizations more innovative, we must change the way people think and interact."
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-- Andrew Papageorge 5/3/2004
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"Today's employees... must have and use the tools and the skills to manipulate information, to analyze it and to use it in order to add value -- by helping customers, by improving operations, and/or by exploiting new opportunities."
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-- Stephen Shapiro, in '24/7 Innovation' 2/13/2004
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"Innovation -- a talent we all had when we were young -- can be relearned and pooled in a culture of innovation to confront and overcome competitive threats. The combined creative power of all employees pulling together in cross-functional teams can provide the spark to produce winning performance in the marketplace."
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-- Stephen Shapiro, in '24/7 Innovation' 2/13/2004
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"The innovative company of the future will, at minimum, have the customer always in the front of its mind. The key is to link the business outcomes to what the customers value."
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-- Stephen Shapiro, in '24/7 Innovation' 2/13/2004
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"Companies in the 21st century can hope to be innovative all the time only if they shift their innovative thinking out of the laboratory and take it to the broad base of the entire organization."
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-- Stephen Shapiro, in '24/7 Innovation' 1/6/2004
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