Tech talk

Research-Technology Management, July-August, 2006

"A survey of 140 corporate strategists found that fully two-thirds admitted that their organizations had been surprised by as many as three high-impact competitive events in the past five years."--George S. Day and Paul J. H. Schoemaker in Peripheral Vision (Harvard Business School Press, 2006) p. 2.

"The tech industry has lost focus on the most important constituency of all--its customers."--Pip Coburn in The Change Function (Portfolio, 2006) p.7

"The goal now is not just to create more innovative products, but to build a more innovative company."--IBM CEO Samuel J. Palmisano, in preface to Expanding the innovation horizon: The global CEO study 2006.

"At Nucor the art of motivation is about an unblinking focus on the people on the front line of the business. It's about talking to them, listening to them, taking a risk on their ideas, and accepting the occasional failure."--Nanette Byrnes, "The Art of Motivation," Business Week, May 1, p. 57.