Dinesh Paliwal Quotes

The principles of disruptive innovation are indeed intended to be guidelines to assist managers both in introducing disruptive innovations as well as identifying disruptive developments in their market.

You've got to figure out how you're going to come in and significantly impact and redefine a market such that you become a market share leader in it.

Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.

The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.

Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror.

We recognize the need to adapt to a changing competitive environment.

There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So you want most people to think it's a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good.

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers and ignore the low end of the market, where disruptive innovations emerge from.

Once you understand business models you can then start prototyping business models just like you prototype products.

We need to be in front of consumer trends and translate those trends into insights and foresights.

I'm always a fan of good business moves.

Any of our businesses will not exist in the form that is today, will not exist in the same form one year later, two years later... We have to worry about the disruptions in the business models and the practices.

Moving with the times is an important idea for strategy today.

Launching a successful product or startup has little to do with luck. Any business that gains traction on the market is the result of very careful strategizing and market analysis, not to mention the development of an original product or service.

To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competition to steal your business, every founder and employee needs to be willing to cannibalize their existing revenue streams in order to create new ones. All disruption starts with introspection.

Business comes and goes and we make a strategic decision that could lead you to whole new place.

New products, new markets, new investors, and new ways of doing things are the lifeblood of growth. And while each innovation carries potential risk, businesses that don't innovate will eventually diminish.

You need to run the company on an even keel, and you need to be thinking about the company long-term and how to drive your next innovation.

It's not a matter of being first, it's being there at the right time, being first in volume to market, and knowing what trends to stay away from.

If we don't take an approach that looks holistically at the form a video-game platform should take in the future, then we're not able to sustain Nintendo 10 years down the road.

Leadership changes, and evolving marketplace conditions can significantly impact business strategy.

I enjoy looking at other people's products and learning from them. We take all of our competitors very seriously, as you know. You have to respect Intel. But we have our own tricks up our sleeves.

Whether in services or in manufacturing, the trick is to stay ahead of the curve. I believe we should not wait to be disrupted - we should become disruptors ourselves.