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Company

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

Theodore Levitt

Harvard Business School

Something new is not innovation if it does not add to value addition.

John Prescott

UK Government

Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.

Creative Thinking: 6 Tips by Edward de Bono

Theodore Levitt

Harvard Business School

One of the hardest things about innovation is getting people to accept that the way they work just might not be the best.

Thomas Foggarty

Stanford University

We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.

Winston Churchill

UK Government

Innovations never happen as planned.

Think Like a Genius: 6 Tips by Albert Einstein

Gifford Pinchot III

Pinchot & Co

The problem is never how to get new innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get the old ones out.

How To Prevent Innovation: 10 Humorous Tips

Dee Hock

VISA Association

Doing the things we do now and doing them better, cheaper and faster will take us so far. But it will not take us far enough. We're going to have to do new things in new ways.

Peter Bonfield

British Telecom

It's one of the toughest challenges an executive faces: How do you get your people to think creatively – to challenge the status quo – while still keeping your everyday operations running smoothly? Innovation is not like most other business functions and activities. There are no reliable templates, rules processes, or even measures of success. In a sense, each act of innovation is a unique feat. a leap of the individual – or the collective – imagination that can be neither predicted nor replicated. Innovation, in short, is anything but business as usual.

Ellen Peebles

Harvard Business School