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‘Aha Moments’ in the Business Model Process: FIELD at the Aspen Institute explores how to take pilot programs to products
If you work at a nonprofit, you probably know this story: You conduct a pilot program. The results are strong. The pilot funding ends. Then you scramble to find funding to keep the program going. How can you write a happy ending to this story? FIELD at the Aspen Institute explored this question during the last phase of their Asset Building through Credit Pilot. Joyce Klein and Luz Gomez discuss what they found.
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You Probably Don’t Know Your Customers: Harnessing mobile to connect for product development
Customer feedback provides information and insight for developing new products and refines innovation and clarifies routes to social impact. But too often connecting with customers, particularly low-income customers, is daunting. P.R. Ganapathy of Villgro and Jessica Seddon of Okapi detail new ways around this dilemma using mobile technology, including one they teamed up with the Lemelson Foundation to build.
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A Solution is Born: Student’s inflatable incubator design wins James Dyson Award, offers answers for developing world
A university class assignment results in a portable incubator that can be manufactured and delivered for about $400 U.S., doesn’t require electricity and includes a phototherapy light to help treat jaundice.
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The India Sterilization Tragedy: Highlighting the need for better choices, safer procedures
There is very little attention being paid to a clear, immediate reason for the danger of these sterilization procedures in India – use of un-sterilized surgical equipment.
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Ten global organizations join MIT D-Lab’s Practical Impact Alliance
Johnson & Johnson, Unilever, and others sign on to the Practical Impact Alliance, a collaborative initiative aiming to scale poverty solutions worldwide.
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Asia-Pacific J&J Innovation Center opens with Shanghai HQ
Johnson & Johnson Innovation has expanded its global network of research partnering hubs with the opening of the Asia Pacific Innovation Center headquartered in Shanghai with satellites in Singapore, Australia and Japan.
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3 Ways Empathy Is Driving Successful Innovations In Health
From human-centered design to the lean startup approach, methods to develop innovative products and services emphasize the importance of understanding what customers really need. Here are some lessons in innovation that social entrepreneurs have learned from empathizing with their customers.
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Ebola Protective Suits Are In Short Supply
The Ebola outbreak created a demand for personal protective equipment. Clinics can go through hundreds of PPE suits a day. Manufacturers increased production but agencies say there's still a shortage.
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