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Case Study: Medicins San Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders)

IdeaScale

Overview: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has always been in need of innovation, so it took advantage of its natural organizational structure and the broad range of talent involved to develop a new innovation unit in 2010 that was updated in 2017 and has produced several improvements to how MSF does its crucial work.

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Evidence that children are more creative than adults (and the opposite)

Idea to Value

A 2013 paper suggests that children engage more in imaginative play because it helps them develop the learning skills of causal-reasoning. A 2010 study showed that children see more value in creatively changing an object than other changes, and this effect is much more powerful than in adults. Both children and adults are creative.

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Exploring the Connection between Idea Management and Customer Experience

IdeaScale

This includes learning their preferences for product development and making sure they are receiving products with the greatest benefits. This number increased from just 36 percent in 2010. To learn more about idea management that will help you develop positive customer experiences, join our newsletter today!

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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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Helping discover your innovation pathway

Paul Hobcraft

I started posting my thoughts on innovation in August 2010. I have pushed out and explored various aspects, learning myself as I go. I see myself as an innovation journeyman , learning and sharing. For this, I love the notion of walkabouts for learning and testing ourselves. I learn from the ask. It amazes me.

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The Explosive Power of Trial, Error and Self-Play

Destination Innovation

Hassabis then completed a doctorate in cognitive neuroscience at the University of London before founding an artifical intelligence company, DeepMind in 2010. Children learn by being taught. They also learn through play, through experience and through trial and error. Deepmind developed a leading AI program, Alphazero.

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The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking

Tullio Siragusa

Eventually, Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010, while Netflix grew to become a streaming giant. Promoting Iterative Learning and Growth Design Thinking encourages an iterative approach, where failure is seen as an opportunity to learn and improve.