social innovation - changing your lense
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Social Innovation: From the world of Innovation to Innovation for the World. Changing your LenseTRANSCRIPT
CHANGING YOUR LENSE
SOCIAL INNOVATION:
THE ROAD AHEAD
• Check-In• What is innovation?• Characteristics of an innovator• Where to look for innovation?• Shifting our focus from the world
of innovation to innovation for the world
WHAT IS
Innovation = Creativity X Execution
INNOVATION EQUATION
Innovation means a new way of doing something. It may refer
to incremental, radical, and revolutionary changes in
thinking, products, processes, or organizations
A Blog is born…
•Many ideas (many bad)
•Willing to take risks
Able to see things through
•Collaborator
Able to build/expand on what is available
WHERE TO LOOK FOR INNOVATION?
CHANGING YOUR LENSE
Global
Poverty
Health
Education
Finance
Infrastructure
As Innovators we need a shift of focus…
…from the world of innovation…
… to innovation for the world…
Measure your impact
What do you have in your hand?
Don’t be afraid to stand out
Grassroots Innovation
What resources will you need?
Try a different environment
Sustainability
Where do I
begin?
Give yourself permission to think up many
ideas
Keep chewing on the problem
Build on ideas that came before
