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2024: A Pivotal Year

Digital Tonto

GDP would fall by 14% and the ad market, which fueled the media business I ran, fell by 85%. The next year, Viktor Yanukovych, the corrupt thug whose attempt to steal a presidential election sparked the Orange Revolution in 2004, was voted into power in a legitimate election. In 2009, it felt like the world was ending.

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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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World Leader in Fleet Management and Telematics Enters the US Market

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

Cartrack Holdings – the leading global provider of vehicle fleet management and insurance telematics – is expanding its operations into the United States, following rapid growth in Asian, European and African markets.&

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The key to success in Mastercard Foundation’s Young Africa Works initiative

Christensen Institute

A crucial piece to the success of the Young Africa Works initiative would be for it to focus on fostering a culture of market-creating innovations across Africa. By creating markets that transform these nonconsumers into consumers, Africa’s market-creating innovators will inadvertently create tens of millions of jobs.

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My innovation journey (so far)

Jeffrey Phillips

My friend, who founded OVO Innovation with me in 2004, was really passionate about the idea of reviving innovation in corporations. Market evidence will tell you that most of new product innovations fail in the first year. Market evidence will tell you that most of new product innovations fail in the first year.

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Why did Taylor Swift just re-record her chart-topping album?

Idea to Value

As noted by the BBC : When 14-year-old Swift moved to Nashville in 2004 to chase her dream of becoming a country pop star, she signed a record deal with Big Machine. It all comes down to owning your own platform as an artist. And in this case, Taylor Swift does not own the music for the first six albums she recorded.

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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.