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Ten Modern Examples of Bad Assumptions

Destination Innovation

Iraq War 2003: The U.S. Theranos Scandal 2018: Investors and healthcare institutions assumed that Theranos, a biotech startup, founded in 2003 by 19-year-old Elizabeth Holmes had groundbreaking technology for blood testing, but it turned out to be a fraud.

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Transforming Healthcare from Within

Innovation Excellence

How One Woman Is Working To Transform The Healthcare System From Within The successful decoding of the human genome in 2003 was a historic achievement.

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Why do we Underestimate the Power of Progress?

Destination Innovation

In fact, real poverty in the world has been dramatically reduced and most people live in middle-income countries with good access to education, electricity, mobile phones and healthcare. Life expectancy in Kenya increased by 10 years within the ten period of 2003 – 2013. This is quite remarkable but not newsworthy.

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How Innovation Awards Can Fuel Business Growth

IdeaScale

Wolters Kluwe r is a global provider of information, software solutions and services for professionals: in the healthcare, tax, finance, audit, risk, compliance, and regulatory sectors. IS: heard that since 2003 Wolters Kluwer each year consistently invests 8%-10% of total revenues in product development.

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Hiring: Ask Why, What, and How

Michael Roberto

He has served in that capacity since 2003. Catholic Health Initiatives is the country's third largest nonprofit healthcare system. Source: modernhealthcare.com Kevin Lofton is CEO of Catholic Health Initiatives. It includes roughly 100 hospitals across 17 states.

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Coopetition

CREATORS

You can read part one HERE ** Do you remember who invented the liquid crystal display (LCD) back in 2003 that disrupted a whole industry and thereby brought the era of traditional tube televisions to an end? Challenges related to big topics such as AI, IoT, digital healthcare or autonomous driving require new approaches and new answers.

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Debunking Disruptive Innovation – Why Disruptive Innovation is Not a Strategy

Leapfrogging

The concept, she said, has been used as an argument for blowing up the broken healthcare and education systems, which minimizes the fact that these long standing institutions are complex social services delivered by human beings, not just stale technologies ready to be displaced by the next big thing. Just take Kodak for example.