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Trust the Customers, Not the Experts

Destination Innovation

One of his course assignments in 1997 was to come up with a new design for luggage. After graduating he developed this idea and presented it to luggage companies who thought it was a toy. In 2002 he was successful in gaining a grant from the Prince’s Trust who also provided him with a mentor and business advice.

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How much luck do you need to be creative?

Idea to Value

However, this is an example of survivorship bias , where for every successful person, there will be a multitude of others who did almost the exactly same things but did not succeed, so you never hear about their efforts or failures. Some people who are successful will acknowledge how luck played a role in their success.

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How four market-creating innovations are improving education and employment in Brazil

Christensen Institute

In our recently published paper titled Leveraging Market-Creating Innovations to Solve Brazil’s Education Paradox , we describe how Brazil currently spends more money on education than its Latin American peers, however much of the outcome of its education system is subpar to theirs in comparison. Árvore Educação.

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Crowdfunding Efforts in the Wake of Harvey, Irma, Maria and the Earthquake

IdeaScale

And it’s become more and more common to see compassionate crowdfunding campaigns arise after a dramatic incident like some of the super storms that we’ve been seeing. Of course, many who donated were friends and relations, but some were total strangers. Thanks for doing that work!

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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. Now, more than ever, newly created jobs are requiring some kind of postsecondary learning or credential.

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

Christensen Institute

In our paper, Leveraging market-creating innovations to solve Brazil’s education paradox , we highlight two main development strategies, push and pull. In contrast to push strategies, pull strategies are originated by people on the ground—often innovators—who are responding to the struggles of everyday people experiencing specific problems.

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How Can We Sustain this Innovation Pace AFTER the Pandemic?

BrainZooming

Why has our organization been so open and quick to innovate in ways we haven’t been previously once the pandemic hit? The first development driving greater innovation rests on a strategic change framework that we first developed and shared in 2012. Since its development, we continue to refine our thinking on this framework.