Creative Solutions to Problems in Healthcare

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I work with an organization in Zambia that addressed lack of access to diarrhea treatment. They realized that you don't find this life-saving medicines in remote regions, but you find things like Coca-Cola everywhere. So they started literally taking a free ride with Coca-Cola bottles to make medicines available in remote regions. That's what I call a workaround. The many creative ways of addressing problems and bridged across silos.

Paulo Savaget reveals unconventional tactics to solve just about any problem.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The four workarounds–and how to use them.

2) How to maximize incentives to start change.

3) Why you shouldn’t let limited resources stop you.

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— ABOUT PAULO —

Paulo Savaget is associate professor at Oxford University’s Engineering Sciences Department and the Saïd Business School. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge as a Gates Scholar and has a background working as a lecturer, consultant, entrepreneur, and researcher finding innovative solutions for a more inclusive world. As a consultant, he worked on projects for large companies, non-profits, government agencies in Latin America, and the OECD. He currently resides in Oxford.

• Book: The Four Workarounds: Strategies from the World's Scrappiest Organizations for Tackling Complex Problems

• Website: Oxford Said Business School

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado-Perez

• Book: Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant

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