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Vijay Govindarajan is Coxe Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business and Marvin Bower Fellow, 2015–16 at Harvard Business School. Govindarajan worked as General Electric's first chief innovation consultant and professor in residence from 2008–10.

✵ 18. November 1949
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Famous Vijay Govindarajan Quotes

“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.”

Vijay Govindarajan

Vijay Govindarajan, ‎Chris Trimble (2013), The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge. p. 18

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

Vijay Govindarajan

Vijay Govindarajan, ‎Chris Trimble (2013), Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere, p. 4

“The innovation leader’s job is to execute a disciplined experiment.”

Vijay Govindarajan

Source: How Stella Saved the Farm. 2013, p. 131

“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.”

Vijay Govindarajan

Anil Kumar Gupta and Vijay Govindarajan. "Knowledge flows within multinational corporations." Strategic management journal 21.4 (2000). p. 473

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

Vijay Govindarajan

Vijay Govindarajan, ‎Chris Trimble (2013), The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge. p. 10

“Inside a big experiment, there are little experiments.”

Vijay Govindarajan

Source: How Stella Saved the Farm. 2013, p. 80.

“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.”

Vijay Govindarajan

Vijay Govindarajan, in: Business Week, (2007), p. 176

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