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What is Disruptive Thinking?

Destination Innovation

Steve Jobs (Consumer Electronics): Jobs revolutionized personal computing, music, and telecommunications with products like the Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, and iPad. Elon Musk (Transportation): Musk disrupted the automotive industry with Tesla’s electric cars and transformed space exploration through SpaceX.

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Podcast S7E157: Paul Ruppert – How the 1990s telecomms industry drove innovation

Idea to Value

Paul is a veteran of the Telecommunications industry, and his companies have helped bring breakthrough technologies like worldwide mobile calling and SMS to the masses. In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast , we speak with Paul Ruppert.

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Calling all innovators: Africa’s electricity market is ripe for market-creation

Christensen Institute

The wireless telecommunications company started in some of the poorest countries in the world—Malawi, Zambia, Sierra Leone, and Congo—where, as of the late 1990s, fewer than 5% of people had access to mobile phones. Innovators looking for guidance can find it in Mo Ibrahim’s 1998 creation of Celtel. billion company in a mere 7 years.

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i3: A market-creating initiative for African healthcare innovators

Christensen Institute

But in 1998, Mo Ibrahim built Celtel and developed a business model that made inexpensive mobile phones and telecommunications accessible to millions of people in several African countries. The market Ibrahim, and a few other innovators, created triggered the growth of a vast and far-reaching mobile telecommunications industry in Africa.

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The most important question in development

Christensen Institute

For example, Roshan, Afghanistan’s largest mobile telecommunications company, has invested more than $700 million in the country to develop its telecommunications infrastructure. In doing so, they create jobs, boost taxes, and change the culture of a place. They also have staying power.

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Continuous Improvement and Breakthrough Innovation: Why You Need Both

IdeaScale

The iPhone was considered a true innovation back in 2007, opening up an entirely new approach to telecommunications and changing how people used phones forever. Yet even that breakthrough innovation was built upon decades of smaller innovations in telecommunications, internet technology, and computing technology.

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Eight Companies that Switched What They Did

Destination Innovation

In the 1990s it focussed on telecommunications technology. Nokia was founded in 1865 by mining engineer, Fredrik Idestam, as a wood pulp mill in Tampere, Finland which was then part of the Russian Empire. It became a manufacturer of rubber boots and cables before specialising in electronics. It became a network equipment manufacturer.

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