Sourcing solutions through partners

You may have already identified some potential solutions and ideas you want to pursue, or you might want to invite the local ecosystem to put forward ideas. Either way, we encourage you to think carefully about the best way to involve partners in the project, whether that’s local innovators or global suppliers.

If you are still in the stage of generating ideas, the science shows there are strong links between how many ideas we generate and the final quality of the solution.

For testing and implementing the solution, it’s a ques- tion of whether you have the capability or preference to build the digital tech, buy it, or borrow it before you commit to buying.

In this section, we explore just a few different approaches you can take depending on if the solution already exists, if you are able to implement it in-house, and if there are many potential partners in the ecosystem.