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

Christensen Institute

trillion high in 2011, Brazil’s GDP in 2021 shrunk to $1.6 In our paper, Leveraging market-creating innovations to solve Brazil’s education paradox , we highlight two main development strategies, push and pull. It’s important to note that many of the resources pushed are designed to be helpful and are often welcome by communities.

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The Book that Took 9 Years to Publish

Stephen Shapiro

Hopefully this article will serve as inspiration (and education) to others who want to publish a book. March 2011: I submitted the final manuscript to Penguin for Best Practices are Stupid. April 2011: Almost immediately after submitting the manuscript, I conceived the concept of a “Challenge Toolkit.” The list grew over time.

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Learning to be Innovative – Future Building’s Crucial Role in Driving Innovation Impact

Imaginatik

An obvious example is a clue from 2011 – the public launch of Uber’s ride-sharing program in San Francisco. Many innovation programs, and some R&D teams, benefit from full-time staff who work as designated innovation scouts. For example, “What if autonomous vehicles completely replaced human drivers?”. “

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This video shows how bacteria evolve resistance to antibiotics

Idea to Value

It shows an enlarged petri dish (2ft by 4 ft), divided into nine zones with varying concentrations of antibiotics designed to kill the E-coli bacteria introduced into the least concentrated areas. This is a perfect example of evolution by natural selection, as these new mutant cells could take advantage of their new trait.

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The Innovation Instinct: Inventions Inspired by Nature

Qmarkets

Many notable engineers, architects, designers, and other creators have discovered unique adaptations between a species and its environment, and applied these insights to drive innovation across a huge variety of inventions, products, services, and industries. A classic example of biomimicry in action.

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Innovation in action: Value prior learning, no matter where that learning happens

Christensen Institute

This is particularly important when it comes to adult learners who are coming to postsecondary learning with a lot of life experience—they’ve been in the workforce, they’ve been raising families, and/or they’ve been in the military. Examples include formal training on the job, in the military, or through industry-sponsored certifications.

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What Marie Kondo taught me about agile project management

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Who is Marie Kondo? She is the creator of the KONMARI method, which, in a nutshell, synthesizes the organizational philosophy of Japanese society, so accustomed to dealing with small spaces in everyday life – we will go into detail later. . For example: the first category is clothes, the next is books etc. .

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