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i3: A market-creating initiative for African healthcare innovators

Christensen Institute

i3 is a pan-African initiative designed to accelerate the commercialization of 60 promising early & growth-stage healthcare companies. In our language, i3 is a market-creating innovation initiative built to foster healthcare focused market-creating innovations across Africa. By 2004, revenues had reached $614 million.

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How One Organization Created A Movement That Transformed Healthcare

Innovation Excellence

By 2004, Don Berwick realized he had reached a crossroads. His organization, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) had been working since the late 80s to promote the quality methods that had transformed manufacturing to do the same for medicine. He had made some headway, but felt that progress had been too slow.

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When Information Design is a Matter of Life or Death

Boxes and Arrows

Directive 2004/27/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 amending Directive 2001/83/EC on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use. uri=OJ:L:2004:136:0034:0057:EN:PDF. 5 Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. 2 European Commission. 3 European Commission.

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Are Technical Experts Better Leaders?

Michael Roberto

In the piece, they state the following based on their research: Support for the idea that physician-leaders are advantaged in healthcare is consistent with observations from multiple other sectors. Given the conventional wisdom, I took a look at the research. Goodall wrote a paper with Lawrence Kahn and Andrew Oswald about NBA coaches.

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Ten Modern Examples of Bad Assumptions

Destination Innovation

In 2004 Blockbuster employed 84,000 people worldwide and operated 9,000 stores. 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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The key to success in Mastercard Foundation’s Young Africa Works initiative

Christensen Institute

I recently returned from a trip to Ghana where I got the opportunity to see how one company, mPharma, is democratizing access to affordable healthcare for average Africans. From access to affordable medicines and healthcare, to financing, housing, and electricity, hundreds of millions of Africans wake up daily and struggle to make ends meet.

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Organizational Design: Clearing the Runway for Collaboration and Breakthrough Thinking

Innovation Excellence

This involved replacing people with machines to do the same work, but such systems are inflexible and not able to adapt to new challenges unless a person steps in to make changes (Ake et al, 2004; pg 27). Ake et al, 2004; pg 266). Technology has its role in every workplace, but the lights are back on for the people in the room.

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