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Enhancing child and family well-being using Family Resource Centers

Christensen Institute

In our latest report, “ From child welfare to well-being: A blueprint for CBOs and government agencies ,” we unveil the business models that enable prevention-oriented CBOs and prevention-enabling government agencies to enhance child and family well-being. Harvard Business School Module Note, August 2009 (revised November 2021).

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Origin Story: How IdeaScale Grew from a Simple Idea to a Leading Idea Management Company

IdeaScale

IdeaScale was launched in 2009 by founders Vivek Bhaskaran, Jessica Day, Josh Folk and Rob Hoehn. This occurred in tandem with President Barack Obama’s Open Government Initiative. Hoehn wanted companies and government organizations to be able to gather, transform, and prioritize ideas through crowdsourcing. Where It All Began.

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What Somalia’s Impending Famine Teaches Us About Addressing Donor Fatigue

Christensen Institute

In 2009 , for example, fears that Islamist insurgent Al-Shabaab was benefiting from the influx of food aid led the U.S These women want their local initiatives to be supported by the government and aid agencies. Office of Foreign Assets Control to suspend over $50 million in humanitarian aid.

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How best to use innovation to fight corruption: 2 Case Studies

Idea to Value

The clearest example came from Afghanistan, where their offshoot M-Paisa was first trialed in 2009 to pay their police force via their phones instead of with cash. The program costs the Indonesian government more than $1.5 The government in 2015 sent out a credit-card sized I.D.

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Why World Water Day should focus on more than just water

Christensen Institute

My experience is far from unique; non-government organizations (NGOs) and other stakeholders have spent more than hundreds of millions of dollars on water supply projects in Africa and other regions that have broken down and no longer work. million people since 2009. We later built four other wells in other communities.

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InnovationOps: the Next Evolution of Innovation Management

Innov8rs

Those units aren’t aligned nor working together to deliver upon the strategies, and there’s limited governance of the processes from start to finish and hardly any suitable tools to manage those processes. These are all managed as Portfolios, and they filter back up to the Strategy and Governance.

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Is vertical integration the next value-based care?

Christensen Institute

Not eager to be left behind, and given government incentives to provide this type of care, many incumbents have attempted to implement similar strategies—usually with limited success. Harvard Business School Module Note, August 2009 (revised November 2021). You might be wondering what, exactly, I mean by this question.

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