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Given the tremendous headwinds facing the biopharmaceutical industry today, I wonder whether traditional, conservative management – and, like most large corporations, big pharmas are managed incredibly conservatively -- will continue to prove an effective strategy, or whether they ultimately will be...
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Medical product companies that figure out how to embrace and most effectively apply emerging analytic and digital health technologies, and think creatively about new risk-sharing business models, will be best positioned to deliver impactful medicines to patients, durable health to populations, and long...
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I am tremendously excited by the potential synergies between digital health and medical product development; capturing this value, however, will require a sophisticated understanding -- not only of the technologies, but also of the specific functional needs and tacit local politics of the organization...
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(AP) Redmond Washington. After a much heralded launch, the buzz around Microsoft’s launch of Windows 8.0 is centered on the fact that when the computer crashes that users will no longer see the blue screen of death. Instead, users will now see a friendly screen requesting that they restart their systems...
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At the same time as the government is setting out a vision for a reformed system, that system itself is on the edge The publication of the care and support white paper and draft bill in July provided a milestone in the journey to reform that the adult social care sector has been on for the past few years...
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What is your organization’s mission, your vision, your goal? Can you articulate it? If yes, write it below in the space provided. Okay. Why do you have a mission statement? Is it of any more value than the parsley on your Denny’s Grand Slam breakfast plate, or is it actionable? What does it tell you...
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Was Icarus’s problem one born of hubris, or did he simply need non-melting wax? Wax on, wax off. So there I was listening to NPR as I made the drive to Subway. The person doing the speaking had the title, professor of economics. His point—if you can call it that; the deficit and the debt [...] Read More...
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I was reporting to the board—or bored—sometimes it is the same. The mission: figure out what was wrong, and then fix it. I spent weeks talking to everyone from the executives to the receptionist. I interviewed patients and physicians. The doctors were not happy, the patients less so. Costs were up, charges...
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NPR is the white noise that usually accompanies me to and from the office lest I let the traffic turn me into one of those drivers CNN broadcasts with footage of police helicopters hovering above my road rage. For the most part I have learned to tune out NPR’s political bent and focus on their [...]...
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Were one to judge America by what they read from scanning the headlines of the magazines in the supermarket’s checkout lane, the only items of note are that Jennifer Aniston may or may not be pregnant, and that another one of the Kardashian’s was getting married—no word as to whether or not she is pregnant...
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A lot of companies need to go to the doctor. Whether the firm suffers from malaise, ADHD, or depression is not really important. Companies do not get ill, companies do not suffer. Their employees do, get ill that is; companies merely serve as incubators of the malaise and facilitate it. We have all seen...
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Things that fly in the face of public opinion often leave a big welt. Sometimes we forget that anarchism is a form of leadership led by an anarch—noblesse oblique. There is a smartphone app that allows you to erase random people from your photos. I have a team of programmers working on an upgrade for...
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Years ago the word Lubyanka was enough to bring normal Russians to their knees in terror. Lubyanka is known best for being the headquarters of the Soviet secret police, then called the KGB. The basement of Lubyanka housed a prison which had one hundred and eleven cells, cells that were used to hold and...
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It takes a lot of energy to dislike someone, but sometimes it is worth the effort. It is not easy being a consultant. One client required me to shout “unclean, unclean” as I passed through the hallways. Maybe that is why I leave newspapers scattered around the floor of my desk, so nobody can sneak [...
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Another week of conventions got me thinking. What is all this discussion concerning illegal migration and Borders? Some people want to build a wall; some want to be the wall. On one end, Mexico, the problem is illegal immigration. On the other, Canada, the problem that is not being addressed is legal...