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

Christensen Institute

In 2021 , stimulus spending meant to spur investment in energy projects was still falling short of what was needed to ensure a sustainable recovery from the crisis. In short, the global pandemic only caused Africa to fall further behind. A silver lining. Africa’s MCI history can act as a guide for its electricity market.

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The conflict between digital transformation and speed

Jeffrey Phillips

Facebook and other platforms are built on the previous two ideas - ubiquitous connectivity through a global backbone and often wireless connectivity based on smart phones. If history is any guide, we can project that digital transformation will become first an enabler, and then potentially a barrier to agility and speed.

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Design Thinking & Human-Centered Design Examples in Healthcare

InnovationTraining.org

Some of their projects include an outpatient ambulatory surgery center, wait times to see an orthopedic surgeon, and health challenges that occur in the day-to-day of people’s lives. The Next Generation Heart Monitor.

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5G: what technologies change with increasing speed

mjvinnovation

With 5G, data transmitted over wireless broadband connections can reach rates of up to 20 Gbps in some estimates – exceeding wired network speeds – and also provide a latency of 1 millisecond or less for uses that require real-time feedback. Do you know exactly what it is and how 5G works? What will change in relation to 4G.

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How to Develop Your Idea to Become the Next Big Thing Using Kanban System?

IdeaScale

The Kanban system is a visualization strategy that helps you manage innovative development projects. Nowadays Kanban makes use of more modern digital technologies and much faster wireless communications. Now keep these things in mind as you begin with your ideation activities and crowdsourcing tactics for your next project.

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Open Innovation for a Good Night’s Sleep

IdeaConnection

The audio equipment giant wants consumers to share their thoughts on the project to help it refine the buds prior to a global release. The sleepbuds are similar to wireless earphones and are paired with a smartphone running a companion app. There’s more on the crowdsourcing project in the video below and here at Indiegogo.com.

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Machine to Machine (M2M): what it is and how it works

mjvinnovation

The Internet and improved standards for wireless technology have expanded the role of science, engineering, and manufacturing telemetry for everyday use in products such as heating units, electric meters, and Internet-connected devices such as appliances. Create an M2M Project. Then arrange the scope of an M2M project.