![]() Ultimately, the paper aims to contribute to the body of knowledge in the field of disruptive innovation, sustainability, and creating shared-value strategies, assessing the feasibility of solutions that may drive to improved competitiveness, social progress, social inclusion, and sustainability of the healthcare industry in one of the developing economies. This study also aims to provide a compelling argument supporting the thesis that disruptive innovations in the healthcare system can help grant access to critical basic healthcare services in poor regions of the world while also achieving multiple goals such as, sustainability, efficiency, shared-value creation, and corporate profitability for forward-looking firms with scalable and disruptive business models. This analysis on disruptive innovation, industry competitiveness, and sustainability of the healthcare models is inspired by Michael Porter’s Creating Shared Value (CSV) strategic framework (Porter et al., 2011 2018) and by Clayton Christensen’s Disruptive Innovation Theory (Christensen et al., 1997 2000 2004 2006 2013 2015, 2017). ![]() Nigerian health industry is used as an exploratory case study to examine the feasibility of implementing Mobile Health and Telehealth Systems, and more in general, to assess the potential benefits of disruptive innovations in the healthcare industry for the lower income patients of emerging and developing economies. The author examines the possibility of using advancements in the innovation of Technology 4.0 to bridge the gap in access to what could be defined as “good enough” healthcare services for poorer regions of the world while also aiming to potentially reduce healthcare costs and making the local healthcare systems more sustainable, productive, and accessible. In a series of events that began on Friday and intensified during the US holiday weekend, China's cybersecurity regulator began investigations into three companies that recently listed in New York - ride-hailing service Didi Global, Uber-like trucking startup Full Truck Alliance, and online-recruitment platform Kanzhun.This paper focuses on the potential opportunities that disruptive innovation may bring to the healthcare sector of emerging and developing economies, and in particular to the one of the leading Sub-Saharan Africa’s country, Nigeria. It was seen as raising as much as $211 million by selling 10.8 million shares priced between $17.50 and $19.50, Reuters reported, citing three sources with direct knowledge of the matter. LinkDoc, which filed for its IPO in June, was due to price its offering after the US market close on Thursday. On Tuesday, Chinese officials said they would step up scrutiny of cross-border data flow and sources of funding for securities investments, among other market-related measures. The tougher oversight is seen as President Xi Jinping seeking to control one of China's most treasured resources - big data. LinkDoc, which provides medical data and research to pharmaceutical clients, is the first Chinese company known to have set aside US IPO plans as regulators tighten their grip. Chinese medical-data company LinkDoc Technology has suspended its plans for an initial public offering in the US as Beijing cracks down on domestic companies with overseas listings, Reuters reported on Thursday.
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