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The great thing about task-to-task innovation is that the opportunities are everywhere and are easy to locate. All you have to do is look and ask.
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The notion of net utility is the ultimate filter for product innovation.
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…at the end of the day, what matters is that the customer is not being served efficiently, and that means that the opportunity for innovation exists.
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People drive innovation, whether it is based on process or on culture.
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…the sum of these miniature innovations repeated across hundreds of processes and dozens of product lines can be staggering.
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The big innovator has, to some degree, genius… [and can] take dozens of isolated pieces of information and see a pattern in them.
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Innovators without pragmatism will waste your time and resources and will cause you to miss opportunities because you have followed them down a dead-end road.
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You need to have an organization that is designed to innovate and is managed so that it does so.
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Excellence in method, in people, and in organization will yield excellence in innovation – and nothing less than excellence in all three areas will yield satisfactory results.
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Having a variety of solutions to the same problem will dramatically increase the odds of genuine innovation.
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