Hookworms are a major cause of ill-health globally. In children, they cause intellectual, cognitive and growth retardation.So, eradicating them seems to be the "Solution".
Wrong!!
Eradicating them could cause an outbreak of Asthma. Hookworms secrete proteins that dampens the hyper-immune response of the host they reside,that causes asthma.
In the business context, the word solution evokes a false sense of security, for it is a partial and temporal phenomenon.
So, folks like David Gurteen are suggesting that there could only be responses to business problems and not solutions.
However the word response lacks the "accountability".
The middle ground could be, to identify the relevant scarcity in the context and design a solution that completely addresses it.
The relevant scarcity in the world health case is lack of good health in a wide population and not eradicating hookworms.
The bridge in the picture is almost complete, except for the "last mile". Identifying relevant Scarcity is a last-mile problem.
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