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Tag: Innovation Theory
Design Thinking
Incremental Innovation
Innovation comes in different forms, and most of the time it's not disruptive. An introduction to the winter 2015 issue.
Nonprofit Management
Bridge-Building for Social Transformation
Well-designed structures of multi-stakeholder collaboration can achieve not just positive impact but long-term, systemic change.
Review
Health
Design or Disrupt?
The Mayo Clinic achieves patient care improvements through innovation that is incremental rather than disruptive.
Technology & Design
Innovating Practice in a Culture of Expertise
A phased approach to innovation can help expert-oriented organizations embrace experimentation and learning.
Civil Society
Taking Charge of Scaling Well
Tensions at the heart of the scaling process demonstrate the critical part that practitioners’ goals, values, and motivations play in any scaling story.
Social Entrepreneurship
World Literature on Social Innovation: A Quest
A new book makes an important contribution to a field screaming out for diversity—but may also illustrate why there isn’t more diversity.
Design Thinking
Getting Beyond Hype: Four Questions to Predict Real Impact
A simple way to think about investment and design.
Global Issues
Replicating Parts, not the Whole, to Scale
Rather than replicating “one-size-fits-all” solutions across different settings, international development innovators need to identify the core aspects they can effectively and efficiently scale up.