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Organizations can get in the way of innovation, because if people are all bound up, and if they don't know if they get to make the decision or somebody else, and if they do, what happens to them, and so on and so forth.

But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.

A company gets better at the things it practices.

Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions.

There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn't how we've approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

With clear definitions and a taxonomy that illustrates their relationships, the Inventure Cycle defines the pathway from inspiration to implementation. This framework captures the skills, attitudes, and actions that are necessary to foster innovation and to bring breakthrough ideas to the world.