Searching for Junk

January, 2015    SMM_119 Searching for Junk A short article that looks at recent acquisitions in medical industries and suggests questions executives should ask to ascertain whether their acquisition strategy has the right focus.

Pharma’s Pigeons

January, 2015    SMM-117 Pharma’s Pigeons This short article describes how rare disease business models are an early sign of the evolutionary path of some pharma companies. It’s a good way to put this increasingly popular strategy into a...

Sharper Focus

November, 2014    SMM-116 Sharper Focus Strategies often get lost in translation as they are communicated along the chain of command. This article examines how a highly effective brand teams connect high-level strategy with operational...

Balancing Act

November, 2014    SMM-115 Balancing Act Company culture acts as a brake on change, preventing adaptation to fast-moving markets. This article (from the Darwin’s Medicine series) looks at how to overcome this problem without throwing away the...

Death Valley

October, 2014    SMM-114 Death Valley For life sciences companies, evolving is becoming harder not easier. Sometimes an injection of new genes is imperative for survival. This article is part of the Darwin’s Medicine series, published in...

It’s In Our Genes

September, 2014    SMM-113 It’s In Our Genes Evolution is almost always used as a synonym for change and DNA as a metaphor for habits. However,by relegating evolution to a mere metaphor, we risk missing the value in the best idea anyone has...