Innovation Quotes of the Week – Feb. 23, 2013
This week we continue a featured series of some of our favorite innovation-related quotes. Click on author name for access to the article. And, please contribute your favorite innovation quotes in the comments and we’ll feature the best submissions in next week’s Innovation Quotes of the Week.
“The line that once divided business and design has become non-existent.â€
– Vinh Pho
“Map-making reduces stress, releases creative energy and serves as a de-conflictor.â€
“The new marketing battlefield is one of networks rather than nodes.”
“While Jobs ran Apple like a Spock, he understood the markets like a Kirk.â€
“Innovation is a paradox for management.â€
“What latest gadgets and gizmos are going to change your classroom in 2013?â€
“The best defense is a calculated innovation offense.â€
“If I were to demand that you go innovate right now, what would you do?â€
“Keepod aims to offer a single card on which users’ entire digital soul can be stored.â€
“It is easy to get disoriented as CEO.â€
“Innovating the weakest link in your product or service may deliver the most value the fastest.â€
“The storage geeks, in the end, were right.â€
-Â Steve Todd
“Could you describe your own company’s corporate innovation system?â€
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