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Vijay Govindarajan Quotes

born 1949 India

Vijay Govindarajan (born 18 November 1949) is an Indian-American organizational theorist and Professor of Management at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He is listed on the Forbes list of The Most Influential Management Gurus (2009).

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A reverse innovation is any innovation that is adopted first in the developing world.

‎Chris Trimble (2013)

The innovation leader’s job is to execute a disciplined experiment.

Inside a big experiment, there are little experiments.

Of all possible resources that a firm might possess, its knowledge base has perhaps the greatest ability to serve as a source of sustainable differentiation and hence competitive advantage.

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

‎Chris Trimble (2013)

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

in: Business Week (2007)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Vijay Govindarajan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.