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Do you recognize your innovators leaders position?

Paul Hobcraft

I recall enjoying a book published a few years back, “ Innovation Governance- how top management organizes and mobilizes for innovation ”, written by Jean-Philippe Deschamps and Beebe Nelson. I can totally recommend it as it is so rich in thinking through much around innovation, placed within this governance framework.

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You can't burn data

Jeffrey Phillips

As the concept of digital transformation takes root, you may frequently hear comparisons between data and oil. This comparison was strong enough to lead Wired magazine to define data as the new oil in a magazine article some years ago. On the surface, this comparison seems to make some sense.

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How Jobs Theory can help address the loneliness epidemic

Christensen Institute

Mortality Comparison Source: Office of the U.S. Specifically, it could help governments and organizations figure out how to reduce loneliness and social isolation to enhance public health. Surgeon General. Loneliness and social isolation in the US Last year, the American Medical Association declared loneliness a public health concern.

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Webinar: Leveraging market-creating innovations to solve Brazil’s Education Paradox.

Christensen Institute

Brazil spends a disproportionate amount on education relative to its Latin American peers, yet the country’s education outcome is subpar in comparison. Although Brazil’s government has worked to resolve its education paradox, the country’s decentralized education system continues to struggle to make progress.

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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. Thankfully there is hope.

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Innovation for Impact

The Inovo Group

Frequent comparison. The author concludes with the observation that innovation in the United States is highly inefficient despite the efforts of some 220 university entrepreneurial programs, 6,000 professors and instructors teaching entrepreneurship, 1,400 venture incubators, and billions of dollars a year in government investments.

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At the digital transformation and innovation crossroads

Jeffrey Phillips

And what happens when corporations with business models and structures and governing capabilities built for slower change and market dominance meet the agile, nimble competitors and shifting customer expectations at this unexpected crossroads? The corporations didn't change. The conditions and circumstances did.