IDEAS ARE CHEAP; EXECUTION IS WHAT MATTERS!

An astute observation!

"Performance improvement is blind to the lineage of good ideas."

~ Chris Brogan, CEO, Owner Media Group (dedicated to helping owners grow their business through improving their capabilities and connections), and author of 'Benchmarking for Best Practices';

Ideas, in and of themselves, are cheap. Execution is what matters.

Put it in another way: 

In business, the only thing that matters with an idea is whether it improves your performance.

Where the idea originally came from is strictly academic.