Innovation in an existing company is not just the sum of great technology, key acquisitions, or smart people. Corporate innovation needs a culture that matches and supports it.
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Related Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors,... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON Healthy curiosity is a great key in innovation. IFEANYI ENOCH ONUOHA Adaptability and constant innovation is key to the survival of any company operating in a competitiv... SHIV NADAR I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many... INDRA NOOYI [Carr] seems to talk about the end of innovation, but there will always be innovation. Information t... DOUG RICHARD Not every innovation in transportation is going to come from government or even a large enterprise. ... ANTHONY FOXX Yahoo was Jerry Yang's baby. He did a great job creating the baby. Unfortunately, some of the ke... MASAYOSHI SON With so many important technology issues being debated at the state and federal level, there is a re... CAL DOOLEY Innovation is the future of Gannett, and Roger has proven his ability to encourage new ideas and mak... CRAIG DUBOW Above and beyond, not only are we an innovation company, we are in service of our clients. GINNI ROMETTY The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation. PIERO SCARUFFI The top principle for disruptive and sustaining innovation is that it has to have a laser focus on c... DENISE MORRISON Improvement is not enough, you also needs innovation. AMIT KALANTRI This technology is an assault on the traditional knowledge, innovation, and practices of local and i... DEBRA HARRY Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benj... ROBERT HORMATS The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation. BOB IGER The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation. ROBERT IGER If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows, ..... LARRY ELLISON Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation. DEAN KAMEN A disruptive innovation is a technologically simple innovation in the form of a product, service, or... CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN A disruptive innovation is a technologically simple innovation in the form of a product, service, or... CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company. WALTER ISAACSON Skunk works were emblematic of corporate structures that focused on execution and devalued innovatio... STEVE BLANK Right now, it takes a large company employing hundreds of really smart people to support Internet se... DAVID PATTERSON In voting technology, the pace of innovation was outpacing the regulation. DOUG CHAPIN People always ask why I stay in the online space versus going to TV or film, like most people would ... FELICIA DAY Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriv... STEPHEN COVEY We believe energy efficiency-focused technology innovation is key to addressing the significant impa... ANDREW FANARA There's an overemphasis on conservation and other idyllic energy sources that can be harmful in ... KLAUS LACKNER We're taking on people who have technical skills who also fit our culture and are excited about our ... DOUGLAS MERRILL One problem with relying on existing concepts is that it could stifle innovation, weakening the film... ANITA ELBERSE Pools have their own uniqueness, design and engineering to depict culture, history or innovation. TROY DUMAIS With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad. HENRY ROLLINS We seem to forget that innovation doesn't just come from equations or new kinds of chemicals, it... JOHN MAEDA The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great... ELON MUSK Collaborating with trading partners is one key area of innovation today. BILL READ We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of ou... QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN This strategy of integrated innovation has just caused the whole company to go into gridlock, MICHAEL CUSUMANO The government plans to bring in a new science, technology and innovation policy in 2013. VAYALAR RAVI All too often, a corporate innovation initiative starts and ends with a board meeting mandate to the... STEVE BLANK Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when... STEVEN SINOFSKY XAML is the key innovation. It's what the tools understand natively. FOREST KEY A tablet replacing an exercise book is not innovation, it's just a different way to make notes. GEOFF MULGAN Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovatio... MARC ANDREESSEN Whether or not people go into space or serve the space industry, they will have the sensitivity to t... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON One of the symptoms of an absence of innovation is the fact that you lose your jobs. Everyone else c... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON INNOVATION is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an oppor... PETER DRUCKER INNOVATION is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an oppor... PETER F. DRUCKER The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of co... GINNI ROMETTY Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and wil... VIVEK WADHWA For CEOs today, it's all about achieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about pr... GINNI ROMETTY Terminator technology is an assault on the traditional knowledge, innovation and practices of indige... DEBRA HARRY Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation. SEBASTIAN THRUN There is no doubt about it that the work being done at some of the Indian subsidiaries of multinatio... MARC HEBERT Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revoluti... MARSHA BLACKBURN This is the latest Sprint innovation that uses GPS technology to improve the way families connect, c... DANNY BOWMAN Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate... BILL GATES The Internet is ultimately about innovation and integration, but you don't get the innovation un... LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR. Becoming an inventor is not whether you studied science or arts, it is not whether you were born in ... SUNDAY ADELAJA Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. EDITH WIDDER The study underscores the critical role universities play in a country's national innovation system,... CARL SCHRAMM India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democ... SAMANTHA POWER There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but t... NAVAL RAVIKANT It's great proof of IBM's innovation. DOUG BALOG IT savvy boards will have the advantage of pulling enough resources and pushing the technology-enabl... PEARL ZHU Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the... TED LEVITT Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat WOODY ALLEN The key thing is to invest in the future, and what that means is - when you're deploying technol... REID HOFFMAN A dream will not become an innovation if there is no realization. CIPUTRA I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the b... BILL GATES Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. LUDWIG VON MISES In the U.S. and Europe, there has been a lot of creative hobby innovation, and that's great. ERIK HERSMAN The innovation of our workplace is key to the development of innovative solutions that address the e... CATHY ENGELBERT Intuit's mission, values, and culture of innovation set us apart as a great place to work. Our 8... BRAD D. SMITH Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun w... ALBERT-LáSZLó BARABáSI The motivation is our philosophy that employees, by their effort, commitment, innovation and ideas, ... BRIAN JONES We support leading scientists who make concrete and crucial contributions to the innovation of scien... LU YONGXIANG Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like b... BEN HOROWITZ Disruptive innovation is simply doing a common thing in an uncommon way or doing an uncommon thing i... BRYAN INDIGO When you look at how technology companies are funded, it's not a zero-sum game. It could be 20 i... TROY CARTER Tech companies have a finite lifespan: For the successful ones, an IPO or exit is never more than a ... RYAN HOLMES Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a ... JILL LEPORE The most forward-leaning leaders are single-minded about creating company cultures that foster a tru... LYNNE DOUGHTIE The emergence of a hardware product from an African company marks a phase-change point for tech inve... ERIK HERSMAN It's very clear that CEOs today are looking at new kinds of innovation to drive substantial organiza... GINNI ROMETTY The great depression left a mark on all of the civilized world. It was a defining moment like a gian... WILL EISNER Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify... EVGENY MOROZOV We have always attempted to do things differently. Our vision has taken us to unprecedented levels o... KAZ HIRAI Microsoft and Intel are the bellwethers of the technology sector. These are the companies that are r... JAY FERRARA A true innovator does best, what he doesn't know best. HARESH SIPPY The point is technology and innovation have advanced far past what DCGS is capable of doing. It'... MICHAEL T. FLYNN The innovation scoreboard clearly shows that we have to do more for innovation. Boosting innovation ... GUNTER VERHEUGEN Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation an... ARTHUR LEVITT Ultimately, what any company does when it is successful is merely a lagging indicator of its existin... SATYA NADELLA We believe the XV6700 is truly an achievement in design and technology innovation. The unit was deve... PHILIP CHRISTOPHER With U.S. mobile game sales having flattened from mid-2005, the industry has begun to support innova... ERIC GOLDBERG We can only stay a technology leader if we continue to invest in innovation, which we will. KLAUS KLEINFELD I think there is probably no better person to aspire to emulate than Steve Jobs and what he has done... HOWARD SCHULTZ Innovation will be part of this new supplier partnership -- as it will be part of every aspect of ou... BILL FORD Your competitor sees innovation as an opportunity not an inconvenience COLIN MYLES
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