Remove Health Care Remove Incentives Remove Innovation Remove Media
article thumbnail

Can Education Be Delivered Via WhatsApp?

The Horizons Tracker

The team chose WhatsApp as it’s a commonly used, and therefore familiar, platform for people to use to exchange rich media, without concerns about location or connectivity. They also wanted to provide a low bandwidth option for areas that lack strong internet connectivity. WhatsApp-based training.

article thumbnail

Three Simple Tips to Start Solving Problems in Your Business Today

Steve Farber

” So, when the team shared the key problems that were holding back progress, Conley turned to something he knew rather well: a method for innovation that originated in 1946 with Russian scientist and writer Genrich Altshuller. “No, I just know a systematic innovation methodology.” And guess what?

TRIZ 82
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Innovation Health Care Really Needs: Help People Manage Their Own Health

Harvard Business Review

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. Transforming Health Care.

article thumbnail

Stop Decorating the Fish

Skip Prichard

For example, we can see data dashboards, organization charts, spreadsheets, new strategic plans, or the latest new technology trend bouncing around social media. Innovation happens because of constraints, not despite them. Innovation happens because of constraints, not despite them.” Kristen Cox.

article thumbnail

The Harvard Contest That’s Trying to Improve Health Care Delivery

Harvard Business Review

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

article thumbnail

Game-Changing Innovations From Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

President Obama's mission to Asia earlier this month was touted by US media primarily to highlight the 50,000 jobs created by deals signed in India during his visit. And relatively simple online technology magnifies these incentive effects. Of course, Megastudy's is not the only solution to poor incentives.

article thumbnail

Planting Entrepreneurial Innovation in Inner Cities

Harvard Business Review

Today, inner cities are "in" — innovative, hip hotbeds of convenient culture, commerce and connection. The centripetal force of today's cities is pulling the ambitious and educated back in, and increasing cities' innovative capacity, without sacrificing (at least some would argue) their inclusiveness.