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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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8 Types of Innovation in Business: A Comprehensive Guide

Qmarkets

It’s the secret sauce that has transformed startups into tech giants and turned traditional businesses into market leaders. Innovation isn’t just about the next big idea; it’s a multifaceted strategy that businesses employ to navigate through the twists and turns of today’s dynamic markets.

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Has innovation changed over the last ten years?

Paul Hobcraft

From linear to systemic : Innovation used to be seen as a linear process where ideas were generated, tested, and implemented in a sequential manner. Today, innovation is recognized as a systemic phenomenon, where multiple actors interact and collaborate across different domains and levels 1.

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Connecting innovating value comes from Ecosystem thinking

Paul Hobcraft

The need for radical innovation changes the present position. We need to increase the risk appetite through better risk assessments, a deeper appreciation of where ecosystems and networks can significantly contribute and search constantly for new revenue and market building opportunities. We have built-in constraints.

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The Ten Types of Innovation

Destination Innovation

Incremental innovation is an improvement in an existing thing (e.g. Radical innovation is finding an entirely new way of doing something. For example if you had been making spectacles in the 1950s then plastic lenses instead of glass lenses would have been an incremental innovation. Channel – how you get to market.

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Innovation needs the power of completing the 4th Industrial Revolution

Paul Hobcraft

It shifts our thinking and the management of innovation dramatically. The ability to have a more “rapid response, adaptive designs and flexible manufacturing” can align more to market shifts earlier. We can reach far more into underserved markets through greater customer connections and engagement, we can co-design with them.

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Balancing Function, Design, Process and Structure for Creative Tension

Paul Hobcraft

This not just comes from the research and development lab but far more to listening and observing customers, the market shifts and trends, to having customer conversations, gaining insights into potential gaps or opportunities in the marketplace or through those that have this market-facing role inside the organization.

Design 130