Innovation Quotes

A hybrid of centralization and decentralization is counter-balance of delivering effective IT capabilities.

~ Pearl Zhu

The essence of “Being Hybrid” is about balance - to keep things going steadfastly.

~ Pearl Zhu

Digital IT has a “hybrid” nature. IT management philosophy is transforming from “built to last,” to “wired for change.

~ Pearl Zhu

The pervasive digitalization or IT consumerism requires the balance of “old experience” and “new way to do things,” the “learning and doing.

~ Pearl Zhu

Hybrid Thinking is a set of digital minds integrating the multiple thought processes to think bigger, think deeper, think broader, and think critical, etc.

~ Pearl Zhu

A CIO as “Chief Intrapreneur Officer” has creative, logical, hybrid, and abstract thinking traits.

~ Pearl Zhu

The digital philosophy is to live as “customers,” when practicing IT management.

~ Pearl Zhu

The business’s potential depends on how it unleashes its information potential and talent potential.

~ Pearl Zhu

Running IT with boldness doesn’t mean IT goes rogue, it means IT becomes more intelligent

~ Pearl Zhu

An outlier does not lack knowledge but has the interdisciplinary understanding to see things differently.

~ Pearl Zhu

Innovators are at their very heart visionaries who also have determination, dedication, passion and motivation.

~ Pearl Zhu

Agile and DevOps are for harnessing integration, interaction, and innovation.

~ Pearl Zhu

Continue to fight until you win

~ Sanjeev Sharma

The sociological organization is alive, holistic, vibrant, energetic, responsive, fluid, creative and innovation.

~ Pearl Zhu

The industrial-based enterprise of the 20th century had run out of gas, and the digital enterprise of the 21st century has the new characteristics and DNA of innovation.

~ Pearl Zhu

IT continues to grow in importance to organizations, both operationally and as a competitive advantage.

~ Pearl Zhu

Innovation becomes simply “creating value by solving simple or complex problems.

~ Pearl Zhu

To strengthen the IT-business link, it takes more resource to doing innovation, not just IT innovation, but business innovation.

~ Pearl Zhu

The function of the bridge is to mind the gap, the wonder of the bridge is to create a scene.

~ Pearl Zhu

A transformation often needs to break down the outdated rules, and a transaction is following the rules.

~ Pearl Zhu

Digital organizations can become hyper-connected and “super-creative” via dealing with innovation dilemmas collectively.

~ Pearl Zhu

Develop talent for tomorrow, rather than just hire for yesterday.

~ Pearl Zhu

As a CIO, you need to understand what the organization’s expectation from IT through innovation lenses.

~ Pearl Zhu

Coal mines, like a hard life, have seen the best diamonds of innovation, more than any jewel factory.

~ Vikrmn

The world is desperately imperfect. Even if a quarter of the working people were engrossed in new thoughts and inventions and lived off the others, humanity would still gain tremendously thanks to the constant stream of inventions and intellectual work emerging from this horde of people striving upward.

~ Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

A tech-savvy Board sets a right tone for shaping the culture of innovation.

~ Pearl Zhu

Innovation is too important to leave solely in the hands of the management team without any Board oversight or guidance

~ Pearl Zhu

The Board needs to extend its insight and innovation lens via cognitive difference.

~ Pearl Zhu

The BoDs play the significant role in both Management Innovation and Innovation Management.

~ Pearl Zhu

The purpose of Innovation Management is not to promote innovation, but to manage innovation as a process.

~ Pearl Zhu

Digital innovation has a broader spectrum with hybrid nature.

~ Pearl Zhu

Innovation is a mindset, and that’s where governance comes in.

~ Pearl Zhu

Breaking rules is indeed an important part of creativity. Innovation needs a level of guidance.

~ Pearl Zhu

The digital Board will help set the principles to innovate talent management and embrace digital fitness.

~ Pearl Zhu

There is no such thing as passive receiving of Tradition. He who receives, the disciple, is always — must always be — the scene of a creation. To receive is to create, to innovate! 'The petrification of acquired knowledge — the freezing of spiritual things — allowing itself to be placed like an inert content in the mind and to be handed on, frozen, from one generation to another, is not real transmission….' Handing on is 'resumption, life, invention and renewal, a mode without which revealed thinking, that is to say, thinking which is authentically thought, is not possible.

~ Marc-Alain Ouaknin

People who can solve problems in a new way are the innovators.

~ Pearl Zhu

Ingenuity is the ability to solve difficult problems, often in an original and creative way.

~ Pearl Zhu

Intuition matters but, pay more attention to the unconscious bias.

~ Pearl Zhu

In a society caught up in the race for the better, limits on change are experienced as a threat. The commitments to the better at any cost makes the good impossible at all costs. Failure to renew the bill of goods frustrates the expectation of what is possible, while renewal of the bill of goods intensifies the expectations of unattainable progress. What people have and what they are about to get are equally exasperating to them. Accelerating change has become both addictive and intolerable. At this point the balance among stability, change and tradition has been upset; society has lost both its roots in shared memories and its bearings for innovation. Judgement on precedents has lost its value.

~ Ivan Illich

Be abnormal, being normal is too predictable for your brand.

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive