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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.

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Do you recognize your innovators leaders position?

Paul Hobcraft

Whereas back-end leaders would tend to be in charge of clinical development, manufacturing, or marketing-driven activities. As described well within the book this difference is best illustrated by this Apple leadership comparison. He constantly sought out more radical creativity in design and end product results.

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Use Intuition for Innovation Just Like Apple and Target

Leapfrogging

Apple never did formal market research to tell them what to do. Steve Jobs once said, “We do no market research. Robyn Waters, the former vice president of trend, design and product development, once told me the same thing. I wrote about this extensively in my book Leapfrogging. The answer may surprise you.

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Big Techs in the insurance market: how to use a User-Centrism strategy to address them?

mjvinnovation

One of the markets that is feeling the pressure of Big Techs is insurance. . From the simplest smartphone users to the big players in the market: no one can deny that the ever-growing world of digital transformation is changing the way we live our lives. . Why are Big Techs causing the Insurance Market to lose sleep?

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Big Techs in the insurance market: how to use a User-Centrism strategy to address them?

mjvinnovation

One of the markets that is feeling the pressure of Big Techs is insurance. From the simplest smartphone users to the big players in the market: no one can deny that the ever-growing world digital transformation is changing the way we live our lives. Why are Big Techs making the Insurance Market lose their sleep?

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Big Techs in the insurance market: how to use a User-Centrism strategy to address them?

mjvinnovation

One of those markets that feel the pressure of Big Techs is insurance. From the simplest smartphone users to the big players in the market: no one can deny that the digital transformation , increasing and continuous, is changing the way we live. Why are Big Techs making the Insurance Market lose their sleep?

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The cost of innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

The companies that do make the bet, and that do focus on innovation, often show the benefits in terms of higher profits, greater market share and higher stock prices. We don't have to look far in the corporate scrap heap to find firms that were leaders (Nokia, Kodak) but became obsolete due to a failure to notice changes in the market.