Vijay Govindarajan: Innovation

Vijay Govindarajan is American academic. Explore interesting quotes on innovation.

Vijay Govindarajan: 14 quotes0 likes

“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

“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

“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