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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. This needs significant process redesign and the redesign into small, nimble teams and cross-trained groups who collectively gather around a problem to solve it and then disperse and reform in different shape and form to address the next need.

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Innovation cannot expand without the 4th Industrial Revolution

Paul Hobcraft

Depending on the day, the machine may break and need maintenance or an adjustment, the line settings may need to be modified for a specific product or run, or the operator may need to step away to resupply the line or be trained on a new procedure. In 4IR transformed manufacturing sites this is no longer the case.

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Does culture eat strategy for breakfast?

Innovation 360 Group

His mission is to uncover hidden ideas within the world’s largest database of innovation data. Sherlock was created to be the first AI platform for innovation management – trained by input data from over 6,000 companies in 62 countries. The Upside of Turbulence.

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Seeking fresh winds and new directions

Paul Hobcraft

Let me explain: Innovation however, doesn’t work in many of our normal processes and procedures. Yes we constantly attempt to squeeze all our innovation activity into a well-designed process but so much of those more radical innovations just cannot fit and we are then forced to ‘kill them off’ as the system rejects them.

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Why organization matters for Innovation Success

Innovation 360

His mission is to uncover hidden ideas within the world’s largest database of innovation data. Sherlock was created to be the first AI platform for innovation management – trained by input data from over 6,000 companies in 62 countries. The Upside of Turbulence.

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PLAYING IT SAFE IS THE MOST DANGEROUS THING YOU CAN DO

Innovation 360 Group

Those who don’t will be left behind, watching a train full of customers disappear into the far horizon. By doing so, they created a space in the coming digital platform wars, where they will go head to head against enterprise cloud providers like Microsoft, IBM, Google, Apple, and Amazon. If you don’t look ahead, you won’t change.