Roll the Stone
 (of Mediocrity) Away

Sightsavers, one of my favorite innovative NGOs, worked with McDonald's in India to help make its eye operations faster, more efficient and more quality-standardized. It took knowledge from a completely unrelated field and turned it to its advantage.

LEPRA Health in Action used to deal just with the challenge of leprosy. The bad news from an organizational sustainability point of view was that leprosy was being more or less conquered. However, instead of closing down, LEPRA decided to identify its core competence as dealing with certain kinds of disease and now tackles tuberculosis and other infections.