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Case Study: Medicins San Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders)

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Overview: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has always been in need of innovation, so it took advantage of its natural organizational structure and the broad range of talent involved to develop a new innovation unit in 2010 that was updated in 2017 and has produced several improvements to how MSF does its crucial work.

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Helping discover your innovation pathway

Paul Hobcraft

I started posting my thoughts on innovation in August 2010. I always find the post-New Year to be a reflective part of the year of reviewing, deciding, and then setting new goals. Innovation application and practice seem to have stayed stuck, largely due to how it is organized. You need to discover your innovation pathway.

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Evidence that children are more creative than adults (and the opposite)

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A 2014 review, 2014 book and 2016 book indicate that higher levels of imaginative pretend play in childhood helps enhance creativity in adulthood. A 2010 study showed that children see more value in creatively changing an object than other changes, and this effect is much more powerful than in adults.

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Integrating UX into the Product Backlog

Boxes and Arrows

Early agile pioneers were working on in-house IT projects (custom software) or enterprise software [ 1 , 2 ]. The economics are different in selling consumer products than when developing software for enterprises—UX matters more for consumer products. Larry makes money even if people can’t use his software.

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Telehealth and COVID-19: The Global Rise of Telehealth and Advances in Digital Health Technology in the Post COVID-19 World

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fully or partially implement a telehealth system, up from 35% in 2010 (source: American Hospital Association ). A study which reviewed insurance claims data from 2005-2017 from a large private U.S. health plan found that annual telehealth visits among all members of the health plan increased from 0.02

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When Information Design is a Matter of Life or Death

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Additionally, medicine information leaflets are required to be reviewed and approved by a competent authority, which varies from country to country, before being included in the packaging with the medicine. 2010), www.consumation.com. Possible Design Improvements. Competing sources of information introduce additional confusion.

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How the current patent system actually hurts innovation (and how patent trolls are being fought)

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If you want to see just crazy the situation is, watch this video by software developer Austin Meyer, in which he describes his experience trying to fight these patent infringement claims with the companies that sued him. Can you patent software?: However, software is not always something that can be patented.

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