Ample Quote by Clayton Christensen

Efficiency innovations arise in industries that already exist. They provide existing goods and services at much lower costs. They are not empowering. Efficiency innovators…

— Clayton Christensen

Efficiency innovations are a natural part of the economic cycle, but these are the innovations that streamline process and actually reduce the number of…

— Clayton Christensen

Empowering innovations require long-term investments, which tie up capital for years and years. So companies are using capital to create more capital, and consequently,…

— Anonymous

True innovation takes at least 10 to 15 years, whereas the longest that private venture capitalists are routinely willing to wait is five years.…

— Rutger Bregman

Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something and it doesn't work and it takes confidence to say we…

— Clayton Christensen

Sustaining innovation is the lifeblood of any enterprise. It is the time when we capitalize upon, and recover from, all the disruptive change prior.…

— Geoffrey Moore

Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.

— Peter Drucker

There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations.

— Clayton M. Christensen

Innovation is everything. When you're on the forefront, you can see what the next innovation needs to be. When you're behind, you have to…

— Robert Noyce

Venture capital has done much more, I think, to improve efficiency than anything.

— Kenneth Arrow

Once an innovation is implemented it is no longer innovative.

— Jack Anderson

Rapid innovation is the cure for the ills we face, but because innovation is difficult and susceptible to failure, we might need to rethink…

— Richard Owen