Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2014

The challenge, then, is to strike a productive balance between the confidence you need to be successful and the doubt you need to identify and address the weaknesses that matter. You also need metrics and review processes that provide you with accurate data and keep you from being overly optimistic or biased in your perceptions.

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HR Digest

MARCH 8, 2020

It conducts clinical trials on behalf of its pharmaceutical clients and provides regulatory, consulting, and market access to expedite the drug approval process. It offers Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. It offers health care products and insurance services. United Health Group. Anthem Inc.

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Company Insurance Travel Software 85

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

For example, they might say, “We’re a bank,” or “We make office furniture,” or “We’re in the pharmaceutical business.” In other words, Larry Page sees Google as a broad portfolio of science, technology, and Internet-related resources that can be leveraged into almost any meaningful new venture. This is quite understandable.

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How To Retail Core Competence Innovation 100

Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

One pharmaceutical company called and asked me to coach "Dr. They replied, "He is not updated on recent medical technology." Connected to the strategy are the products and services offered by the company. No amount of coaching can salvage products and services that do not meet the needs of customers. Life is good.

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Executive Coaching Govindarajan Prahalad Leadership 126

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. Preventing fraud sure sounds like a good thing. That seemed to make sense.

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Bureaucracy Compliance Learning-by-Doing Engineering 203

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

Recently, information technology research and advisory company Gartner compiled a list of top 10 strategic technology trends. In the pharmaceutical industry, technology is transforming the sales process. Consequently, pharmaceutical companies now look beyond the sales force to reach physicians.

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Trends Technology Pharmaceuticals Team 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

They might include sales productivity metrics such as market share, the company’s ability to charge premium prices relative to peers, or sales force productivity. Operating-cost productivity metrics might include the component costs for building an automobile or delivering a package, the rates of rework, and so forth.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Although US firms had pioneered and dominated the technology for two decades, they were now getting pummeled by cheaper Japanese imports. The private sector spends three times that , mostly on translational research intended to transform basic discoveries into new products. Innovating the Innovation Process.

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Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Regeneratives are pharmaceutical cell therapy products that replace or restore cells and tissues lost to disease or aging. “To be able to do that, they need to entice companies to come to Japan, and they need to entice their own pharmaceutical companies to license in and obtain the best.”

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Pharmaceuticals Content Licensing Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Here are some of the challenges that I’ve observed: Product management. Successful IoT plays require more than simply adding connectivity to a product and charging for service — something many companies don’t immediately understand. When product-based companies add services and connectivity, operational requirements increase.

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Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

That means new technologies and new competitors are hitting the market at an unprecedented rate. That’s because there are two primary types of uncertainty — demand uncertainty (will customers buy your product?) and technological uncertainty (can we make a desirable solution?) Consider the 2×2 matrix below.

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Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 22

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

With scarcely any help from management, knowledge workers can increase their productivity by 20%. We detail this process in our HBR article, " Make Time for the Work That Matters."). Knowledge workers own the means of production — their brains.

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Productivity Products Peer Review Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. We found that, for pharmaceutical industry CEOs, there is a statistically significant relationship between a CEO’s specialist background and the firm’s performance.

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CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Although directors in certain industries are more aware of the threat of disruption, the widespread lack of board-level engagement in innovation processes could be a major blind spot and a potential liability. These firms also had higher-rated processes for innovation. Setting Priorities. Director Recruitment and Skills.

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Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Today when we talk about business “ clusters ,” we’re usually talking about the technology industry in Silicon Valley, the financial sector in London or New York, or automakers in southern Germany. In the early 1920s, as a result of a growing market for Idrolitina, Gazzoni decided to automate the packaging process.

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Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

In fact, the relentless drive to embrace digital technologies has been ongoing for many decades. What also seems to have been forgotten are the lessons from these earlier attempts to leverage IT (remember that IT is a digital technology). The heads of the arrows between the network elements signify the direction of relationships.

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Tools Supply Chain CRM Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Carmakers have started using 3D technology to produce parts. Imagine the changes afoot in the pharmaceutical, medical device, automotive, and consumer electronics industries. The technology is expected to lead to reductions in the cost of employment, capital investment, shipping and inventory as well.

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Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Managers and business analysts will often be called upon to conduct data-driven experiments, to interpret data, and to create innovative data-based products and services. Google's recruiters know that experimentation and testing are integral parts of their culture and business processes. Big data is much more demanding on the user."

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Skills Pharmaceuticals Sample Business Intelligence 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

It’s only recently, though, that advances in information technology have made it possible for predictive tools to access and manipulate big data, and to do so continuously — accelerating the generation of insights, and opening up opportunities to anticipate issues with unprecedented precision. They’re also sharing risk.

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Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

We invest billions of dollars each year in medicines, new technologies, doctors, and hospitals—all with the goal of improving health, arguably our most prized commodity. So reducing investments in low-value care services means spending less on doctors, hospitals, and other health care technologies. rawpixel/Getty Images.

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Health Care Insurance Pharmaceuticals Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. It’s not just products.

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Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

If so, then high profits portend diminished productivity growth. Perhaps profits are rising because firms are increasingly making profitable investments in new technology, in IT, or in their organizational capabilities. But there is a more optimistic narrative about the rise of profits.

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Pharmaceuticals Politics Price Chemicals 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

Marketing and finance share a fully transparent analytics platform that all parties can access to run what-if scenarios, optimize marketing-dollar allocations across products and markets, and get course-correcting feedback on the performance of those allocations. Financial accountability for marketing performance has become front and center.

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Finance Marketing P&L ROI 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

Second, technology has become a pervasive element across the health care system, with a major impact on diagnosis, treatment, and communications. But technology has become rooted firmly in U.S. One product helps reduce falls; another, Wander Guard, helps seniors with early stages of dementia live semi-independently. In the U.S.,

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Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

His company is quite respected in the sustainability community both for its progressive social equity policies and for green technology that limits the environmental impacts of his company's manufacturing activities. So I asked: Do you foresee a time when you'd willingly provide access to your leading green technology to your competitors?

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Co-Opetition Company Brandenburger Game Theory 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Second, we see a raft of innovations that will alter how products are designed, manufactured and sold — everything from nanotechnologies to 3D printing. Then, manufacturing's most important role is as a driver of innovation, trade, and productivity. Innovations Are Changing The Way We Design Products. Demand is Shifting.

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Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Originally gaining notoriety as the data technology underneath the cryptocurrency called bitcoin, today blockchain technology is expanding its reach far beyond the confines of currency and tackling issues involving transactional social trust throughout the world. So how does blockchain work? Is blockchain appropriate?

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Supply Chain Content Power Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

These hurdles aren't unique to financial services — insurance, pharmaceuticals, health care and government all face regulation, to name a few examples. without any compliance process or technology in place.". The good news is that implementing an effective social media compliance process isn't rocket science.

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Compliance Media Compliance Officer Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Consider its decision to pursue the market for pharmaceutical distribution, or the recent announcement that it will be teaming up with Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase to create joint solutions for reducing the health care spending of more than 1 million employees and their families. So where is the link to health care?

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Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Nadathur's portfolio includes firms operating in drug discovery research, companion diagnostics, pharmaceutical analytics, reimbursement claims processing, patient relationship management, and specialty healthcare delivery for running clinical trials — and they all work together.

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Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology IPO 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Because disruptive products were cheaper, more accessible, and built on new technology architectures, they tended to be crummier than the existing highest-end solutions. New technologies, combined with business model innovation, provide the structural cost advantage necessary to take large chunks of the market over time.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Corporate procurement processes are opaque, secretive, and can be influenced by political pull as well as pure performance. In the clubby world of pharmaceutical purchasing executives, PACIV’s reputation for transparency spread, setting a higher bar that his competitors begrudgingly were now asked to jump over.

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Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

In virtually every advanced field, whether it’s information technology, biotechnology, agriculture, or renewable energy, America holds a leading position. Take a look at any significant innovation, such as an iPhone , and you’ll find that most, if not all, of the technology came from some government program.

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Innovation Company Competitive Advantage Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

I studied large-scale change and innovation efforts in 56 randomly selected companies in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. But they recognize that they — and the organization — need a process to help them reach their goals.

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Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 13

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. Cosmeceuticals , for example, is the new industry emerging from the convergence of the personal care/cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries.

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