What can big pharma do with digital it could never do with analog?
I recently attended the CNS Summit in Boca Raton, Florida to learn more about what digital therapeutics and pharmaceutical companies are doing in their collaborations together. I came away with a new insight I wanted to share. Pear Therapeutics and Novartis have...
read moreDefining What Your Not, Limits What You Can Become
Mental maps guide our behaviors. Without them we can’t act. When ever we face a need to act based upon a specific context, we pull out the appropriate map, we then recruit an identity, create some emotions, and then act. For example, if we arrive at a football game,...
read more6 Reasons Why Big Pharma Is Partnering with Digital Natives
This is part-two to my blog post on my interview with Adrian Chernoff where I asked him how big pharma should think about innovating in the digital space. Click here to read the first part: 3 Reason Why Big Pharma Can’t Charge A Premium for Drug+ Digital? Having...
read more3 Reasons Why Big Pharma Can’t Charge a Premium for Drug+ Digital
The other day I met with Adrian Chernoff to discuss what type of business models digital health and therapeutic companies should be exploring and how they should think about getting paid for innovating beyond the molecule. Digital health has emerged as the term to...
read more5 Things Your Job Should Give You – If It Doesn’t, Then Leave
Imagine you have a job that you think will safely, securely, and simply take you to retirement as long as you just hang in there. You think you are reasonably happy at work, despite the usual hassles and bureaucracy we all must endure. Then one day, your boss calls...
read moreWhy: A New Book?
Picture this: You’re the CEO of a health system that has low employee engagement, poor patient satisfaction, and declining profit margins. You have have just completed a company visit of a leading digital innovator in the healthcare space that has shown you how they...
read moreWhat Do You Need to Master the Innovation Lifecycle?
The biggest challenge I see in most organizations is using the wrong mindset to explore and exploit their opportunities. Innovation isn’t possible within the constraints organizations put on their employees, which is why a thorough understanding of the Innovation...
read moreKeep or Kill? How to Determine an Innovation’s Potential
When I meet with innovators to explore their ideas and inventions, something peculiar happens. These innovators get so excited to tell me about the features of their invention, they forget to focus on the problems it solves, or why it’s important in the first place....
read moreRemoving Organizational Barriers to Innovation
When faced with the choice of running the business of today or building the business of tomorrow, most leaders choose the former in order to ensure near-term profitability. But the bias towards bureaucracy and maintaining the status quo threatens innovation and...
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