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How four market-creating innovations are improving education and employment in Brazil

Christensen Institute

In our recently published paper titled Leveraging Market-Creating Innovations to Solve Brazil’s Education Paradox , we describe how Brazil currently spends more money on education than its Latin American peers, however much of the outcome of its education system is subpar to theirs in comparison. The impact.

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“Island of Bryan” Couple Offers Their Top DIY Tips for New Homeowners

Business and Tech

In 2004, he took the step of founding his own construction company, and that decision became part of both our lives. The level of trust between us and the way we push each other to evolve and perfect our crafts keeps us both learning and loving the process.

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My innovation journey (so far)

Jeffrey Phillips

A good friend and I were eating lunch, and talking about concerns that there wouldn't be any good or interesting jobs for our kids, because of the usual technology advances - robotics, automation, machine learning and other factors. Market evidence will tell you that most of new product innovations fail in the first year.

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Innovation adoption in the technology lifecycle for Energy Translation

Paul Hobcraft

There are opportunities to find fresh market designs that have demand-response models central to then provide new more tailored services and then the exciting potential of designing new business models that look to greater co-creation, more flexible power purchase agreements and bring the consumer into the system as aggregators in their own right.

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Seven Companies That Failed to Innovate and What Happened to Them

IdeaScale

These seven companies lost out on entering major new markets, got acquired by competitors, or accumulated billions on bad bets, all by failing to innovate or grasp the value of their innovations. The problem was they focused entirely on desktop computers, leaving the market in industrial computing and servers to others.

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What is a Minimum Viable Product and what is its Purpose?

Destination Innovation

There is much talk in the innovation community about the need to produce a minimum viable product (MVP) and bring it quickly to market. If the answer is negative then you have gained an invaluable piece of learning. The point of the MVP is to learn something important quickly. You must rethink your whole plan.

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What do Blue Lobsters Have to do With Innovation? Everything!

Mills-Scofield

Blue Lobster at the South Bristol Coop , 2004. To me, a blue lobster is a person who views and organizes the world differently, who rejects the status quo, who loves to try stuff, learn, fail and try again, who is interesting because they are interested and who has impact. What’s with blue lobsters?