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How President Lula da Silva should help the poor in Brazil this time?

Christensen Institute

When he served as Brazil’s 35th president from 2003 to 2010, the country was experiencing an economic boom. trillion in 2010. The eduK platform, which offers professional courses that uses a methodology that helps people learn fast, is reversing this trend. It’s unclear, however, how Brazil will pay for Lula’s promises.

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The flaw behind coding bootcamps’ attempt to disrupt higher ed

Christensen Institute

These entities were created during the same period that business guru Rita McGrath described recently in her post, “ The Rise, and Fall, of the Direct-to-Consumer Model ”: There was a brief period in the early 2010’s when a new business model – dubbed “direct to consumer” – emerged and threatened to upend established incumbents.

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Innovation, ecosystems, platforms and the promise of more to come

Paul Hobcraft

In the course of several interrelated blog posts Paul and I will be talking about innovation, the necessary “ecosystem” for success, why good innovators won’t think about products, services and business models in isolation, and how platforms contribute to greater innovation success. . *

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Innovative Ideas for Combining Traditional and Digital Marketing

InnovationManagement

In 2010, Pepsi invested millions of dollars in the “Pepsi Refresh Project,” moving their entire marketing strategy to social media. The campaign was, of course, widely promoted via online networking channels and, in the beginning, it seemed like a huge success.

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Helping discover your innovation pathway

Paul Hobcraft

I started posting my thoughts on innovation in August 2010. You need to discover your innovation pathway. I need to break out different parts of it to better focus a reader’s mind (and my own!)

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The Best Product Person of 2017 is…

100%Open

Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy and The Product Group. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy ( [link] ) and The Product Group ( [link] ). Take a moment and congratulate The Best Product Person of 2017: Melissa Perri.

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#2,125 – Brain Week: Sentient

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

As Futurism puts it: “Since 2010, American intelligence agencies have been developing a top-secret ‘artificial brain’ military AI system that they named — seriously — ‘Sentient.’ ‘Sentient catalogs normal patterns, detects anomalies, and helps forecast and model adversaries’ potential courses of action.’