Quotes About Innovation Management

“Rethink change: Make change management irrelevant through Appreciative Leadership Innovation focused Expectations (ALIFE)”

— Tony Dovale

“Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.”

— Gary Hamel

“Fifty years later, in the 1920s, the American DuPont Company independently set up a similar unit and called it a Developmental Department. This department gathers innovative ideas from all over the company, studies them, thinks them through, analyses them. Then it proposes to top management which ones should be tackled as major innovative projects. From the beginning, it brings to bear on the innovation all the resources needed: research, development, manufacturing, marketing, finance, and so on. It is in charge until the new product or service has been on the market for a few years.”

— Peter F. Drucker

“There are some designers who flash and burn - Courreges is an example of that. But he still marked fashion history. And I don't think that longevity is always a badge of honor. Modern brand management means that we are always celebrating birthdays, when what is exciting about fashion is innovation, not repetition.”

— Suzy Menkes

“The limits to innovation have nothing to do with creativity, and nothing to do with technology. They have everything to do with management capability.”

— Ray Stata

“While political and cultural factors are important as explanations for differences in national technology policy and industrial practices, emergent trends in science, engineering and management are leading to new paradigms for high-technology innovation in both Japan and the United States.”

— Lewis M. Branscomb

“Technological innovation is the successful implementation (in commerce or management) of a technical idea new to the institution creating it.”

— Lewis M. Branscomb

“For CEOs today, it's all about acheieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models. process, culture and management.”

— Ginni Rometty

“The more you hardwire a company on total quality management, the more it is going to hurt breakthrough innovation,”

— Vijay Govindarajan

“I balance my natural drive for speed and impact with a counterbalancing drive for significance, innovation and sustained customer intimacy. This involves slowing down and moving from transactive management, which focuses on speed, content, accuracy and productivity, to transformative leadership, which focuses on significance, context, authenticity and purpose. This critical shift requires constant diligence, discipline and practice.”

— Kevin Cashman

“Management is simple, innovation is hard.”

— James Cook

“More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation.”

— Seth Godin

“Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.”

— Peter Drucker