Gary Hamel
Gary Hamel
Dr. Gary P. Hamelis an American management expert. He is a founder of Strategos, an international management consulting firm based in Chicago...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
business ideas innovation likely people quality train
You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
lying ambition innovation
**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and need. But at the end of the day, there has to be a degree of foresight -- a sense of where new riches lie. So radical innovation is always one part fortuity and one part clearheaded vision. [first-line bold by author] [2002] p.23
luxury innovation company
Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
change innovation might
The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be.
perspective innovation lenses
Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not as if innovators' heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.
live-life innovation ease
Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.
creating innovation revolution
We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.
irrelevance innovation
Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.
opportunity innovation strategy
In an increasingly non-linear economy, incremental change is not enough-you have to build a capacity for strategy innovation, one that increases your ability to recognize new opportunities.
innovation rewards management
Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.
running innovation growth
Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth.
years innovation four
We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.
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During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.
acquire company resources stopped time
Over time, a successful company will acquire much in the way of resources and momentum, and these things often insulate it from reality once it has stopped being successful.