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Resourcefulness amid serious constraints is known in India as ‘Jugaad.’ In this article, Accenture’s Mitali Sharma suggests this simple concept — which gave birth to a $2,500 car, a $12 solar lamp, and a life-saving incubator made from car parts — might be the antidote to the complexity plaguing your innovation process.

What can companies in the developed world learn from innovators who make irrigation pumps from bicycles or solar ovens from old suitcases?

Quite a bit, as it turns out.

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