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Innovation Quotes by Pearl Zhu

59 Innovation quotes by Pearl Zhu

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A brave listener hears ideas they don’t want to hear and still pushes forward. Innovation is described as a constant forward motion, because staying still is moving backward. Careful observation and turning data into insight are shown as the fuel that powers new ideas.

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“Failure is part of innovation.”

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“Innovation is essentially a management discipline.”

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“You cannot make omelets without breaking some eggs.”

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“The art of questioning is to ignite innovative thinking.”

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“Innovation Management nowadays is more science than art.”

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“Innovation is an important business capability to catalyze the business’s long-term prosperity.”

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“Innovation becomes possible only if people can step out of their comfort zone.”

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“Running IT as a business is about focusing on innovation, growth, and tangible performance result.”

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“None of us will ever know enough, and that is why humility is a critical component of innovativeness.”

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“The board should set digital principles and guidelines for allowing the business to manage innovation in an effective way.”

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“Innovation shouldn’t be serendipity. It is a management process and the differentiated business capability.”

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“An understandable mind is a step closer to innovation, and two inches deeper to wisdom.”

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“Flexibility is a mental process which results in an action that tests a possible solution.”

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“IT acts more as a conductor than a constructor for “doing more with innovation,” to conduct an information-mature, customer-centric digital organization.”

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“Many creative minds, just like many light bulbs, lit up simultaneously, could lead to brainstorming and breakthrough innovation.”

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“An ultra- modern board can set a clear choice among future scenarios that advocate innovation, advancement, and promotes positive behaviors.”

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“The challenge for the IT leader is to set the right priority, manage the limited budget and resource, to “Do more with…

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“The wisdom and goal of innovative CIOs are to help the organization think clearly about the two horizons of future, the short-term…

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“A well-defined set of digital rules are not for limiting innovation, but for setting the frame of relevance and guide through changes…

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“Innovation is too important to leave solely in the hands of the management team without any oversight or guidance by the boardroom.”

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“To succeed in driving innovation, it is essential for empowering people to push ideas forward, and the entire company to be pulling…

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“Every innovator has the vision to bring something new or solve some thorny issues.”

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“Innovative CIOs with bold leadership styles are the key to re-imagine IT for achieving the art of possible.”

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“Innovation is about moving forward, and it can take you to a whole other place.”

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“Outlier” CIOs have better capabilities to connect innovation dots.”

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“Innovation challenges the status quo and that is important for a healthy, innovative organization.”

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“Innovation is a unique business capability to reinvent business, but not to reinvent the wheels”

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“Creativity is the potential which can be unlocked and innovation is the serendipity which can be unpuzzled.”

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“Digital is the age of innovation because creativity is about connecting the dots in the wider scope.”

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“Being an innovative CIO means learning fast, being inclusive, embracing multiple viewpoints and taking calculated risks.”

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“Be courageous to listen to what you don’t want to hear and have the guts to be innovative.”

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“Prioritization enables businesses to manage innovation with a focus, not for stifling innovation.”

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“A learning mind has more dots to connect for sparking innovation.”

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“In business, complexity both drives innovation and hinders it.”

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“The true conflict in innovation is self-imposed by trying to make our visions reality.”

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“Either dealing with innovation dilemmas or handling innovation paradoxes, it is part of innovation management learning curve.”

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“The high-performing board shows the ability and openness to question itself and its decisions and discussions.”

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“The value of information management is never for its own sake, but to provide insight and make a leap of innovation.”

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“Innovation is about moving forward. If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward. There is no standing still.”

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“Do not take “ivory tower” style to manage innovation, and do not treat your innovation champion as the troublemaker as well.”

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“By manifesting creativity from an individual endeavor to a team activity and a collective effort, the horizon of creativity is expanded.”

“We need to choose to continue to learn, grow, and empower people to learn and grow as well.”

“Be courageous to listen to what you don’t want to hear and have the guts to be innovative.”

“The digital boards today should be informed on what benefit is being delivered by IT and aware of constraints and risks.”

“Applying the right procedures and policies to asset management allows IT to create a realistic budget with few surprises, and keep best practices to…

“Knowledge does not stand still; it flows into the company, and it flows out of it; it erodes, and it gets created again.”

“Running IT as a business, IT performance has to be clearly linked with the business performance.”

“The corporate board oversees the corporate strategy, and the business strategy is underpinned by business capabilities.”

“Outlier” CIOs have better capabilities to connect innovation dots.”

“The great communication is not to create more gaps but to bridge the difference and encourage creativity.”

“Keep mindfully insatiable curiosity. It starts with your attitude.”

“The board’s oversight of information management agenda helps to highlight the strategic perspective of IT and improve its differentiated value.”

“Some problems seem irrational as they are caused by people’s emotional reaction to a set of circumstances or events.”

“Problem-solving is about seeing a problem and actually finding a solution to that problem.”

“Capability stands you out; capacity scales you up.”