Dr. Ken Hudson defines innovation as: “Innovation is the creation, development and implementation of a new product, process or service, with the aim of improving efficiency, effectiveness or competitive advantage”. https://drkenhudson.com/best-way-define-innovation/
What are the elements which are important for you in terms of innovation? Are you involved in innovating a product? A process? A service?
To get your juices flowing here are 10 quotes on innovation:
“Innovation is taking two things that exist and putting them together in a new way.“ - Tom Freston
“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke
“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.” – Peter F. Drucker
“Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us.”
― Robin Sharma
“Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.”
― Roger Von Oech
“The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.”
― Aldous Huxley
“Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.”
― Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come from: The Natural History of Innovation
“Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.”
― Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
“Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.”
― Marc Jacobs
“Do not get obsolete like an old technology, keep innovating yourself.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Open the Windows
What steps do you want to take around innovation?
Enjoy!
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