Africa: An Interrupted Dream

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, as below:

Ideas: Create idea, that is, find a solution to a problem

Innovations: Design innovation by transforming the idea/solution into an engineering blue print.

Prototypes: Build prototype from the engineering blue print to see how this innovation looks in physical form and test it to see how it works in real life environment.