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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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What is Disruptive Thinking?

Destination Innovation

Elon Musk (Transportation): Musk disrupted the automotive industry with Tesla’s electric cars and transformed space exploration through SpaceX. Steve Jobs (Consumer Electronics): Jobs revolutionized personal computing, music, and telecommunications with products like the Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, and iPad.

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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. Manufacturing: Challenges: Industry 4.0

Design 147
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Calling all innovators: Africa’s electricity market is ripe for market-creation

Christensen Institute

The wireless telecommunications company started in some of the poorest countries in the world—Malawi, Zambia, Sierra Leone, and Congo—where, as of the late 1990s, fewer than 5% of people had access to mobile phones. In 1988, Tolaram Industries, maker of Indomie Instant Noodles, targeted nonconsumption in Nigeria’s food industry.

Marketing 116
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i3: A market-creating initiative for African healthcare innovators

Christensen Institute

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. The market Ibrahim, and a few other innovators, created triggered the growth of a vast and far-reaching mobile telecommunications industry in Africa.

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Continuous Improvement and Breakthrough Innovation: Why You Need Both

IdeaScale

The iPhone was considered a true innovation back in 2007, opening up an entirely new approach to telecommunications and changing how people used phones forever. Yet even that breakthrough innovation was built upon decades of smaller innovations in telecommunications, internet technology, and computing technology.

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The first of 3 key success factors of innovation management

Exago

At Exago, we’ve worked with extraordinary clients, such as Fleury, and others from pharmaceutical, banking, utilities and telecommunications industries – across four continents – to help them mobilise targeted communities to solve key business problems by learning from them and with them.