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How President Lula da Silva should help the poor in Brazil this time?

Christensen Institute

When he served as Brazil’s 35th president from 2003 to 2010, the country was experiencing an economic boom. GDP almost quadrupled from $558 billion in 2003 to $2.2 In our paper, Leveraging market-creating innovations to solve Brazil’s education paradox , we highlight two main development strategies, push and pull.

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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. You use the term “ScaleUp” …how is that different than startup and why does it deserve a special designation? Back then, unicorns by this definition were indeed as rare and magical as their mythical namesake.

Strategy 130
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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. Disruptive innovations are innovations that radically change existing structures and markets (Pisano, 2015).

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Innovation Lessons from the Master, Steve Jobs

Destination Innovation

The marriage of aesthetics and technology became his life-long obsession. At the age of 21 Jobs founded Apple with Steve Wozniak in order to market the Apple I personal computer. He empowered his team to design something radical and they did. They eschewed the keyboard as used by the then market leaders Blackberry and Nokia.

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Design for Emotion and Flow

Boxes and Arrows

Information architects and designers play a critical role in ensuring the products they design provide users’ with a return on their investment of attention. The causes of flow have the most implications for website and application design. When attention becomes a scarce resource, it’s important to invest it wisely.

Design 95
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Open Innovation: definition, what types and benefits

mjvinnovation

We could summarize open innovation as the use of inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation and expand markets. In his book, Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology (Harvard Business School Press – 2003), researcher Henry Chesbrough coined the term Open Innovation.

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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). The spectrum of triggers for changes in the current business model is broad.