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Podcast S7E157: Paul Ruppert – How the 1990s telecomms industry drove innovation

Idea to Value

Paul is a veteran of the Telecommunications industry, and his companies have helped bring breakthrough technologies like worldwide mobile calling and SMS to the masses. 00:04:45 – What it was like innovating in an industry when the technology was only just being developed.

Industry 261
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Calling all innovators: Africa’s electricity market is ripe for market-creation

Christensen Institute

One key strategy to spur this improvement is through market-creating innovations (MCIs), which transform complicated and expensive products into products that are simple and affordable, making them accessible to a whole new segment of people for whom there was always underlying demand, but no adequate solution on the market.

Marketing 115
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i3: A market-creating initiative for African healthcare innovators

Christensen Institute

The initiative will provide grants, training, a network, and access to market support for these companies. In our language, i3 is a market-creating innovation initiative built to foster healthcare focused market-creating innovations across Africa. Market-creating innovations are more than products or services, they are systems.

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

Paul Hobcraft

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. Markets today are radically changing and are more demanding.

Design 147
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The key to success in Mastercard Foundation’s Young Africa Works initiative

Christensen Institute

A crucial piece to the success of the Young Africa Works initiative would be for it to focus on fostering a culture of market-creating innovations across Africa. By creating markets that transform these nonconsumers into consumers, Africa’s market-creating innovators will inadvertently create tens of millions of jobs.

Marketing 122
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Reparations from France should go to Haitian entrepreneurs, not the government

Christensen Institute

That suggests a better path forward for the dollars France owes Haiti: the French should invest them now in local Haitian entrepreneurs creating new markets that will help sow the seeds of a thriving society. Our research shows that the march toward prosperity begins through investments in “market-creating innovations.”.

Marketing 105
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Episode 18 – Part 1: The ROI of Learning

IM Insights

According to him, innovation involves the introduction of genuinely new ideas or solutions to the world, with a keen focus on how these innovations are received within the market. For him, innovation is about introducing something new and meaningful to the world, with a focus on both the idea itself and its reception in the market.