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Experimenting 100 innovative solutions over 20 countries in Africa

Innovation Excellence

In typical exploration procedures, you collect ideas twice per year from business units, either internal ideas or ideas proposed from existing startups in a long list of up to 50 different innovations per country or entity. At this stage, there is already a department or business unit sponsoring each of the 10 ideas.

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Blockchain Could Make the Insurance Industry Much More Transparent

Harvard Business Review

Admittedly, this shift will be hardest on the established monoliths in the industry, for it will require uncomfortable transparency and price corrections in their business models. Rather, they can become early adopters of the technology.

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Why the X Games Won’t Dethrone the Olympics

Harvard Business Review

A “ new model for how winter sports are done” that “feeds an audience hunger for life-treating daredevilry” and drives “ high market penetration and. The disruptive innovator first targets a market segment that embraces those tradeoffs and builds a business model around simplicity and affordability.

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How Likely Is Your Industry to Be Disrupted? This 2×2 Matrix Will Tell You

Harvard Business Review

To help business leaders better understand industry disruption, we developed an index that measures an industry’s current level of disruption as well as its susceptibility to future disruption. Leading independent power producers, for example, have begun to deploy asset-light, platform-based business models.