Dec 20, 2021Ecosystem-Centered Market Strategy“Ecosystems” are an advanced form of competitive and creative strategy. They are a conceptual gateway to market innovation through market integration. The era of predictable unpredictability is not going away; an operating environment that has changed radically, marked by perpetual instability and bewilderment at the change in the pace of…Ecosystem Strategies3 min readEcosystem Strategies3 min read
Jul 6, 2021The ‘Amazon Way’ of StrategyIt’s December 1, 1976, and the Sex Pistols are being interviewed on live television. Appearing on the British Today show at the supper hour, the Pistols’ frontman John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) responded to interviewer Bill Grundy’s command, “Say something outrageous,” by calling him a “dirty fucker” and a “fucking rotter.” …Amazon8 min readAmazon8 min read
Mar 30, 2021On ‘Strategic Atrophy’ and the New East-West InterfaceThe most hackneyed word in the lexicon of Western thought needs serious re-evaluation. Across business and government settings in the West, infinite means (technology) are being mistaken for ends, operations are being confused for outcomes, “strategy” is something that is described afterwards, a watery residue of past actions taken in…China5 min readChina5 min read
Dec 20, 2020Fear and Loathing in the DoldrumsWe are sitting astride a stark rupture in the historical timeline, a wholesale destruction of contexts. It’s time for a new category of ideas to enact large-scale system change. Healthcare’s next cycle of evolution links the ‘production of health’ with economic development as New Strategy for “transformation,” one that happens…Innovation5 min readInnovation5 min read
Mar 8, 2020Strategic Fit for the Next HealthcareDuring a briefing by academics at the London School of Economics as the 2008 financial crisis was reaching its climax, Queen Elizabeth II, whose personal fortune was estimated to have fallen by as much as 25 million pounds, asked the question that was on the minds of many of her…Healthcare7 min readHealthcare7 min read
Published inTincture·May 29, 2019With Its New Gene Therapy, Novartis Assumes ‘Total System Leadership’Solving insurance churn is Blue Ocean for payer and pharmaceutical markets to cohere and collaborate on health system innovation. …Healthcare4 min readHealthcare4 min read
Published inTincture·May 1, 2019Pharma FlailingMedAdNews is a trade publication covering the business of pharmaceutical marketing. It’s somewhat like Advertising Age, in that it’s focused on serving and celebrating the subsystem of communications agencies and media buyers who create the content to position and promote the feature/benefit story of prescription drug brands directly to consumers…Healthcare5 min readHealthcare5 min read
Published inTincture·Apr 12, 2019Overload and Boredom as Points of Innovation in Health Care“Awareness” campaigns are a new category of waste in health care. Most of us accept administrative complexity, inefficient workflows, obsolete care standards and ample fraud as root cause for around $1 trillion in waste floating throughout the current system(s). In a Harvard Business Review piece not long ago, a…Health5 min readHealth5 min read
Published inTincture·Apr 2, 2019“Value” in Healthcare is a New Market to DesignDuring a visit to the London School of Economics as the 2008 financial crisis was reaching its climax, Queen Elizabeth asked the question that no doubt was on the minds of many of her subjects: “Why did nobody see it coming?” The response, at least by the University of…Healthcare4 min readHealthcare4 min read
Published inTincture·Mar 8, 2019Prelude to #SXSW19 — It’s About Outcomes, StupidThe means of creativity are endless. It’s new ends that are in short supply. The 2019 SXSW Conference & Festival is officially underway. …Healthcare3 min readHealthcare3 min read
