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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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Customer Orientation Effects on Innovation

Integrative Innovation

Danneels studies the effects of customer orientation on a firm’s innovativeness. For example, cordless telephones were a radical innovation relative to wired phones because they were based on a substantially new technology; however, their customer base was essentially the same. Kopalle and E.

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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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Organizing for Simultaneous Innovation Capability – key findings from +1,000 companies, republished from Drucker Forum 2016

Innovation 360 Group

A fter collecting and studying innovation data from over 1,000 companies in 62 countries, I’m often asked whether Small and Midsize Enterprises (SME) are more innovative and entrepreneurial than larger corporations. In my studies I divided the companies into two groups: SMEs and larger companies.

Company 40
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Organizing for Simultaneous Innovation Capability – key findings from +1,000 companies, republished from Drucker Forum 2016

Innovation 360

A fter collecting and studying innovation data from over 1,000 companies in 62 countries, I’m often asked whether Small and Midsize Enterprises (SME) are more innovative and entrepreneurial than larger corporations. In my studies I divided the companies into two groups: SMEs and larger companies.

Company 40
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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. (…).

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Managing Change Despite Uncertainty

Innovation 360 Group

The second recognizes all of the organization’s internal forces, including preparing and motivating stakeholders to handle the reality of radical innovation. The third is concerned with micro-level of developing stronger innovation skills within project teams. Introduction to UPACS.

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