Vijay Govindarajan

"Innovation plans, by contrast, are loaded with assumptions. Sure, some hard facts are available, but more is unknown than known. The past is no longer precedent. Thus, the innovator's job cannot be to…"

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

"The more you hardwire a company on total quality management, it is going to hurt breakthrough innovation... The mindset that is needed, the capabilities that are needed, the metrics that are needed, t…"

"Inside a big experiment, there are little experiments."

"Govindarajan's Blog at the Harvard Business Review"

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

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

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