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1) Africa: An Interrupted Dream: Or, Wonderful Life Discoveries in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, and Tanzani
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This short story describes a real life example of an innovation. Here the author on her real life example guides readers on how to design innovations- starting from the idea- to the prototype and then- to implementation of the final product/service.
What are innovations? A simple definition is that innovations are just solutions to problems. How to design innovations? Innovations require 3 types of creative endeavors: ideas, innovations, and prototypes,...
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Why do Africans have less heart disease, diabetes, and cancer? And, no depression, osteoporosis, arthritis, or asthma? This observation the author made soon she arrived in Rwanda, Central Africa. To find the answer she asked her then husband, a physician. But, he did not know either. Later, she moved to the USA and for many years, this question was staying dormant in her brain database. Then one day, when she started experiencing her personal osteoporosis...
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Life is full of surprises, both big and small unexpected stressful events. They are occurring many times a day and every day. These events challenge people's knowledge, creativity, and skills and test their endurance, resilience, and ability to survive.
Experiencing a problem? Having difficulties? Overwhelmed or stressed out from life?
"C'est la vie!" That's life. What else do you expect? (This for the French is a typical answer.)
That is...
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After African continent throughout colonial power, thousands of engineers, technicians from all over the world, and the Peace Corp volunteers from the United States, went to work in Africa to help them to build their countries independence.
During that time there were a lot of excitement and dreams were in the air. The author, a young and idealistic, went to Africa to design their superstructures. That time the population of Africa was 250 million....
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The author, in this short story, describes her real life innovation. That is: how she created her greatest innovation — from conception to completion. This innovation sparked entirely new industry. Thousands of new jobs were created and brought billions of dollars in new revenues every year to many companies.
To create new innovations, every field require the same set of skills: creativity, common sense, skills, and intelligence. Intelligence and...
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