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New Business Designs can be delivered through a Business Ecosystem Approach.

Paul Hobcraft

New Business Design- Empower Your Business Ecosystem. When looking at radically different thinking and design in business, where Ecosystems become central, you need to ask yourself what industries would benefit from such an alternative design and thinking due to the changing complexities and challenges they are facing.

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i3: A market-creating initiative for African healthcare innovators

Christensen Institute

i3 is a pan-African initiative designed to accelerate the commercialization of 60 promising early & growth-stage healthcare companies. But in 1998, Mo Ibrahim built Celtel and developed a business model that made inexpensive mobile phones and telecommunications accessible to millions of people in several African countries.

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The most important question in development

Christensen Institute

And what started out as a bright idea designed to help people ends up being a reminder of the lack of progress in many communities globally. For example, Roshan, Afghanistan’s largest mobile telecommunications company, has invested more than $700 million in the country to develop its telecommunications infrastructure.

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Design Thinking and Scrum: taking your projects to another level

mjvinnovation

The key factor to help you leverage your business may be the combination of project management methodologies, such as Design Thinking and Scrum. The Benefits of Design Thinking. Design Thinking respects and understands the needs of the end user. Why use Design Thinking and Scrum in Project Development.

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Innovation Insights from the Founder of Sony

Destination Innovation

They founded Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, Corporation and their first product was an automatic rice cooker which failed to sell well. Five years later Morita designed a pocket-sized transistor radio for the American market but it was just a little too large to fit in a shirt pocket. It was their first real success.

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Episode 18 – Part 1: The ROI of Learning

IM Insights

From challenges rooted in organizational design and financial models to the complexities of incentive structures and cultural mindsets, the barriers that can impede progress are dissected. Organizational Design: A Key Challenge Exploration of how the design of large organizations can pose significant obstacles to innovation.

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5 Tips for Adding Value to Agile Design

InnovationTraining.org

Agile Design Tip 1—Clear Goals Supported by Design Research. In Some Thoughts on Design Research, Agile, and Traps Charles Lambdin stresses the importance of clearly defined goals. Design Innovative software” is not a concrete goal; it’s a vague directive. Agile Design Tip 2—Leading with UX Design.

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