Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

When business owners are successful, it’s only natural to start considering how they can make the most of their profits and savings. This increased the need for care items for the elderly and there are plenty of gaps in the market for the healthcare sector.

Health Care 67

Health Care Biotechnology Energy Insurance 67

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards. The industry with the greatest skills gap was IT & telecommunications, whose boards are in serious need of international-global expertise and HR-talent management.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

In order to do this, your company needs a process to source radical ideas that can catapult your business to new heights, open up new markets, or bring in completely unfamiliar profit streams. ups become successful because they are frugal in their origins. Let’s say you’re in the energy sector. Use Convergence Thinking.

Skills 8

Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

That’s why pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies need to define their relevance in this new health care ecosystem, and soon. This was a notable success — but what if we combined the insights and resources of a life science company and health provider that were both focused on, say, acute cardiovascular diseases?

Health Care 8

Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Or pay a freelance consultant to do market research? Clark recommends listing the “concrete skills you need to develop in order to be successful at pursuing your passion full-time.” They “carved out time on nights and weekends” to do research and market analysis. Patch weak spots.

Project 8

Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Even the most naive of them agree that, like it or not, relationships hold the key to both their current capac­ity and future success. But just because you know that a network is important to your success, it doesn’t mean you are devoting sufficient time and energy to making it useful and strong. In fact, few of us do.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

An estimated 250 funds are actively raising capital in a market that the Global Impact Investing Network estimates at $25 billion. This question is hard to answer because, in the midst of all of this excitement, there aren’t clear success markers for the sector. Impact investing has captured the world’s imagination.

Development 8

Development Microfinance Biotechnology Exit Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

That means new technologies and new competitors are hitting the market at an unprecedented rate. If you’re in the upper right quadrant — or in the top 10 most uncertain industries as shown in the Table — you require greater innovation management skills than industries in the other quadrants or in the bottom 10.

Uncertainty 19

Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 19

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

While it’s understandable that stock and currency markets would react this way to the outcome of the election, I believe that it’s somewhat of an overreaction. Consider the successful examples of New Zealand’s milk industry, Basque Country’s steelmaking, and Chilean copper manufacturing. It means more thinking.

Cooper 11

Cooper Long-term Industry Health Care 11