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What The Economist gets wrong about democracy and development in Latin America

Christensen Institute

Take for example, the 2003 attempted institutional reform in Afghanistan. Over the years billions of dollars were poured into the country to change the prevailing institutions in government, which many hoped would lead to positive change in the country. The way we do it is by fostering more market-creating innovations.

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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors. Where startups search for product/market fit and consistency in customer retention, ScaleUps search for scalable product/ market fit, or go-to-market fit.

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Former Mass. governor moves to support employment with college

Christensen Institute

As the pace of technological change accelerates and the half-life of skills continues to shrink, what students must learn is becoming less specifiable, predictable, and verifiable ahead of time. After leaving the Massachusetts governorship in 2003, Swift has dedicated her career to education from K–12 through the workforce.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 1: What is a Business Model?

The BMI Lab Blog

2005) that the ´failure to adequately define the market is a key factor associated with venture failure´, we identify the definition of the target customer as one central dimension in designing a new business model. These processes and activities, along with the involved resources (Hedman and Kalling 2003) and capabilities (Morris et al.

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Nine Short Innovation Lessons from Lego

Destination Innovation

But in 2003 the company was $800m in debt and on the verge of bankruptcy. He created a sense of urgency to undertake the changes ahead. David Gram, Head of Marketing at Lego’s Future Lab, said, “We only develop the few key features that are really needed. We throw it into the market and get feedback from consumers.”.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 2: Why Business Model Innovation Matters

The BMI Lab Blog

Let’s take a look at how the British cycling team went from zero Tour de France victories and ninety-five years without any Olympic medal by 2003 to sixty-six Olympic or Paralympic gold medals and five Tour de France victories between 2007 and 2017 (Clear, 2018). Let’s transfer these findings into the business world, what are our takeaways?

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A brief history of work, innovation and skills in the UK

Wazoku

The need for people and organisations to innovate has always been there but what’s much harder to comprehend, and therefore navigate, is the rapid pace of change we’re experiencing, on a scale we’ve never seen before. Promoting change of any kind was seen as a threat to the established order. A new era of work and technological change.