Innovation
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The term innovation means a new way of doing something. It may refer to incremental, radical, and revolutionary changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations.
[edit] Innovation
- He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626), ‘Of Innovations’, Essays, 24 (1625)
- As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
- Francis Bacon, ‘Of Innovations’, Essays, 24
- To innovate is not to reform.
- Edmund Burke, A Letter to a Noble Lord (1796)
- Change is not made without inconvenience, even for worse to better.
- Richar Hooker (1554-1600), As quoted in the Preface of Johnson’s English Dictionary
- The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;
For master and servant oft changing is loss.- Thomas Tusser (1524-1580), Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, ‘Housewifely Admonitions’
- Un-Learning is a fundamental requirement of Innovative Thinking.
- Innovate yourself coz when you get old, it shows...
[edit] Innovation in Business
- The paradox of innovation is this: CEO's often complain about lack of innovation, while workers often say leaders are hostile to new ideas.
- Patrick Dixon – Building a Better Business (2005) p 137
- Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time.
- Robert Heller, The Decision Makers (1989)
- Creativity can only survive in organizations in which the climate is empathetic to the whole process.
- Simon Majaro, The Creative Gap, Longman (1988)
- Defined simply, innovation is, of course, the introduction of something new. We presume that the purpose of introducing something new into a process is to bring about major, radical change. Process innovation combines a structure for doing work with an orientation to visible and dramatic results. It involves stepping back from a process to inquire into its overall business objective, and then effecting creative and radical change to realize order-of-magnitude improvements in the way that objective is accomplished.
- Thomas A. Davenport, Process Innovation: Reengineering Work through Information Technology, Harvard Business School Press (1993)
- Innovation is new stuff that is (made) useful.
- Max Mckeown, The Truth About Innovation (2008)
- To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.
- The difficulty lies not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
- Business has only two basic functions—marketing and innovation.
