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Calling all innovators: Africa’s electricity market is ripe for market-creation

Christensen Institute

Falling costs in renewable energy is bringing it within Africa’s reach; yet minimizing the number of people lacking access to electricity, and modernizing and promoting sustainable clean energy across Africa will still require radical innovation improvement. Finally, having the option of cold storage reduces food waste. .

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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

Executing this shift to digital is central and very complex, as it is involving the whole Enterprise. To finish BCG provided this visual to outline the processes and cultures that can govern disruptive and radical innovation projects, as digital innovation transformation is certainly that.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 1: What is a Business Model?

The BMI Lab Blog

In 1994 Peter Drucker defined business models as “stories that explain how enterprises work” and answer the age-old questions of Peter Drucker’s Theory of Business – “Who is the customer? Radical innovations are similar to evolutionary innovations - but the leap of innovation is more comprehensive.

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Digital Transformation Combines Customer Experience and Operational Efficiency

Integrative Innovation

Woerner surveyed several hundred enterprises, examining both the capabilities needed for digital business transformation and the impacts on performance. Becoming ‘future-ready’ requires changing the enterprise on two dimensions – customer experience and operational efficiency.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1

Tim Kastelle

IDC predicts that by 2018 more than 50 percent of large enterprises – and more than 80 percent of firms with advanced digital transformation strategies – will create and/or partner with platforms. Platform business models tend to affect, oftentimes disrupt, multiple industries over time.

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Innovation cannot expand without the 4th Industrial Revolution

Paul Hobcraft

This new innovative approach is building greater complexity into our final innovation offerings, yet it is providing increased customer value or societal needs, on problems that require this combined thinking. Exploring the world of connected enterprises “ where it focuses on a few themes that point towards the benefits of IR4.

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Bringing better Ideas to market faster with AI

Innovation 360 Group

The clustering process is a crucial step in finding interesting idea combinations, and it is often in this step that we discover the seeds for what has the potential to become radical innovations (those that bring significant change). Because of the frustration and confusion, people tend to skip this part of the process.