Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Google the name Prometheus, and see how often it has been given to innovations in many different fields, notably science, medicine and… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
It is not enough to give money for demonstration projects. From the very beginning plans should be made for the scaling-up of… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
In a time when it is common for chefs to simply reproduce the innovations of others, the few who speak for themselves… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
The locus of corporate innovations has been product development. But in times of rapid and unpredictable change, the creation of individual products… — John Seely Brown Copy Share Image
“In a world as noisy as ours, only those who can isolate themselves will be able to think better and meditate better… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot… — Clayton M. Christensen Copy Share Image
Empowering innovations require long-term investments, which tie up capital for years and years. So companies are using capital to create more capital,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would like to see policy makers and international donor agencies realize that it is not enough to give money for demonstration… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
Efficiency innovations are a natural part of the economic cycle, but these are the innovations that streamline process and actually reduce the… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth,… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
To me, part of the magic of this era is that the very same innovations, discoveries, and technologies that are allowing us… — Kathleen Sebelius Copy Share Image
Accelerating technology innovations such as ubiquitous sensors, cheap computing power, and 5G networks will open entirely new opportunities and challenges. — Cathy Engelbert Copy Share Image
“The trouble was, innovation never resulted in victory over the long term. It was too easy for the enemy to imitate and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations. — Clayton M. Christensen Copy Share Image
Efficiency innovations arise in industries that already exist. They provide existing goods and services at much lower costs. They are not empowering.… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Data is the kind of ubiquitous resource that we can shape to provide new innovations and new insights, and it's all around… — David McCandless Copy Share Image
When it comes to providing aid, developing innovations, and making bold steps that change the course of history, the United States is… — Seth Berkley Copy Share Image
There seems to be no limit to the exciting possibilities that come from combining technical innovations, the Internet, and social media. — Mohamed El-Erian Copy Share Image
China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press.… — Gary Locke Copy Share Image
When I think about strong innovations in term of automation, robotics, cognitive computing, and artificial intelligence, they are coming a lot from… — Pierre Nanterme Copy Share Image
As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts… — Rene Cassin Copy Share Image
The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Empowering innovations transform something that is complicated and expensive into something that is so much more simple and affordable that a much… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
In an environment where you've got to push innovations out the door fast and keep the cost of innovation low, the probability… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
We love serious technology innovations, and there is a strong bias towards large technology innovations that are sort of disruptive to the… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
The challenge of global warming should stimulate a whole raft of manifestly benign innovations - for conserving energy and generating it by… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“Customer Engagement innovations are all about understanding the deep-seated aspirations of customers and users, and using those insights to develop meaningful connections… — Keeley, Larry Copy Share Image
No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive… — Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Copy Share Image
Chains do more than bargain down prices from suppliers or divide fixed costs across a lot of units. They rapidly spread economic… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers and ignore the low end of the market, where… — Clayton M. Christensen Copy Share Image
Innovations, instantly followed by a demented lust for them, now arrive with dizzying speed, not just daily, but in one-hour delivery slots. — Peter Baynham Copy Share Image
In the wake of digitalization megatrends such as mobile Internet, the Internet of things, and big data, digital innovations are creating development… — Alexander De Croo Copy Share Image
I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry… — Tim Walberg Copy Share Image
