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Of all possible resources that a firm might posses, its knowledge base has perhaps the greatest ability to serve as a source of sustainable differentiation and hence competitive advantage.

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Organizations are not designed for innovation. Quite the contrary, they are designed for ongoing operations.

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Inside a big experiment, there are little experiments.

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The innovation leader's job is to execute a disciplined experiment.

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A reverse innovation is any innovation that is adopted first in the developing world.

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The more you hardwire a company on total quality management, [the more] it is going to hurt breakthrough innovation... The mindset that is needed, the capabilities that are needed, the metrics that are needed, the whole culture that is needed for discontinuous innovation, are fundamentally different.

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Innovation plans, by contrast, are loaded with assumptions. Sure, some hard facts are available, but more is unknown than known. The past is no longer precedent. Thus, the innovator's job cannot be to deliver a proven result; it must be to discover what is possible, that is, to learn, by converting assumptions into knowledge as quickly and inexpensively as possible.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Vijay Govindarajan

Vijay Govindarajan

Born: November 18, 1949 (age 75)
Bio: Vijay Govindarajan ), a New York Times and Wall Street Journal Best Selling Author, is Coxe Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business and Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School.
Known for:
  1. Reverse Innovation (2012)
  2. 10 Rules for strategic innovators (2005)

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