Six Big Shifts in Life Sciences

February, 2017    SMM-157 Six Big Shifts in Life Sciences It’s the question to which we all want the answer: Where is our industry headed? The answer is: Exactly where it is being pushed by what Charles Darwin called “immeasurably...

Strategic Symbionts

January, 2017    SMM-156 Strategic Symbionts Strategic alliances are becoming more interesting and more important as, increasingly, we see the emergence of symbiotic relationships as a common choice of how to compete in life...

Choose or lose

December, 2016    SMM-155 Choose or lose The divergence of business models demands brave choices and the implication for industry leaders is clear: choose a business model and become the best you can at it as fast as you...

Building the future

December, 2016    SMM-154 Building the future In my previous articles in this series, I described my research findings about the forces shaping our industry (Under Pressure, PME February 2016), the 26 new business models created by those forces...

Rigour or Rigmarole

December, 2016    SMM-152 Rigour or Rigmarole All companies plan to succeed but only a few succeed in planning. The differences between them lie in how they answer seven fundamental questions.