Vijay Govindarajan Quotes

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.

Companies over-emphasize idea generation and under-emphasize idea execution when it comes to innovation.

We must think of innovation as doing a lot more for a lot less (money) for a lot more (people).

The more you hardwire a company on total quality management, the more it is going to hurt breakthrough innovation.

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