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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. The pull strategy offers a better approach. The pull strategy offers a better approach.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

Innovators are forced to give up on initiatives, projects, and resources. In this context, innovators wonder how to get ideas across, how to continue projects, what back-up solutions to find and how to keep innovation afloat. The long-horizon projects are the first to go and this leads to an unbalanced innovation portfolio.

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Is vertical integration the next value-based care?

Christensen Institute

Value-based care has been the strategy of choice for health care’s new entrants over the past decade-plus. 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. But is the hype warranted?

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InnovationOps: the Next Evolution of Innovation Management

Innov8rs

He advises executives on how to be more successful in innovation and execution of strategies such as sustainability. 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.

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Choosing the right strategy handling uncertainty

Innovation 360 Group

Both situations are more common than we’d like to admit, simply because we try to apply what we know (how to run projects and operations with performance models, ROI and budgets) to something we don’t know. In H2, the strategy is not to understand and respond to the market, but instead to understand needs and use technology in new ways.

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Choosing the right strategy handling uncertainty

Innovation 360

Both situations are more common than we’d like to admit, simply because we try to apply what we know (how to run projects and operations with performance models, ROI and budgets) to something we don’t know. In H2, the strategy is not to understand and respond to the market, but instead to understand needs and use technology in new ways.

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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

For the hardware: A thousand songs in your pocket ; for the software: so easy that your Mother could do it ; and for the project: and on the shelves in eight months ! Businesses can deploy these same principles within their own innovation strategies.