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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. Africa’s MCI history can act as a guide for its electricity market.

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BE INNOVATIVE IN TAKING SMART RISKS

ImagineNation

It did not set me up for success, nor did it set me up for maximising the importance of self-efficacy and self-mastery when on an innovation roller-coaster ride. I had not undertaken sufficient research studies to determine if users wanted and were ready to accept a radical innovation. Risk-taking is a choice.

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Case Study: Regional SME Development Project Brings Innovation Lift to Manufacturing Hub

Innovation 360 Group

While they don’t have the same resources as large corporations, SMEs can potentially be quite innovative. The project ran for 30 months, with the first half focused on assessment and strategy, and the second on implementation and value creation. This allows businesses to map external drivers to their strategic initiatives.

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Successful Innovators Apply Multiple Leadership Styles Simultaneously

Innovation 360 Group

While much has been written on choosing the most promising innovation project and helping it succeed in the market after implementation, one crucial step in the middle hasn’t received enough attention: how to actually get the job done and done well. Radical Innovators more adaptive. The Pac-Man.

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Does culture eat strategy for breakfast?

Innovation 360 Group

Innovations are infinite, even within a finite market. However, not all innovations start with the same chance at a fully productive lifecycle. The perception of a gang of wired people in white coats doing the “innovation thing” is widespread, but nothing, based on data from 6,000+ companies in 62 countries, could be more wrong.

Culture 63
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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 1: What is a Business Model?

The BMI Lab Blog

2005) that the ´failure to adequately define the market is a key factor associated with venture failure´, we identify the definition of the target customer as one central dimension in designing a new business model. Radical innovations are similar to evolutionary innovations - but the leap of innovation is more comprehensive.

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The Case for Dual Innovation

Tim Kastelle

And it looks like I have a point here… After being discounted by many innovation practitioners in my sphere for some time, the concept of organizational ambidexterity is now finally gaining traction with rising speed. More than 70 percent have a different organizational entity for managing radical innovation. (…).