Andy Grove's Prescription For Health Care
on Nov 18, 2009 in Policy Innovation From the NY Times, Intel's Andy Grove has a prescription for health care;"Mr. Grove is focusing on the shortcomings in the medical innovation pipeline. “Why doesn’t technology give us medical treatments,” he asked, “that are better, faster, c...

Hospital Marketers Are In Deep Trouble Unless...
on Nov 16, 2009 in I'm Just Saying Leadership marketing ...they secure a permanent place at the leadership table.Health marketing blogger Mike Krivich blogs about a recent interview with an unusually clueless hospital CEO. Said CEO was taken aback by Mike's insistence that marketing is more about strateg...

The Reason So Many People Get Lost In Thought?
on Nov 15, 2009 in Policy PR politics It's unfamiliar territory, of course.Today's NY Times reports that the health reform-related statements of many lawmakers were ghost-written by lobbyists and lawyers working for biotech firm Genentech. Oops."Genentech, a subsidiary of the Swiss dru...

Words To Live By
on Nov 12, 2009 in Quotations "Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are." (Bertolt Brecht)...

If Your Service Was Great...
on Nov 12, 2009 in Service Quality ...please ring the bell. Talk about immediate feedback.Hospitals need an "If your MEETING was great, please ring the bell!" sign in all conference rooms. Somehow, I doubt there'd be cause to worry about noise pollution.(Sign seen in Wendy's, Boling...

"Raise Your Hand If You Love Your Cable Company"
on Nov 6, 2009 in Think Different Innovation Ha Ha. A question asked and answered, from David Houle's Evolution Shift blog. No hands raised but lots of laughter.Yes, the cable industry is ripe for disintermediation. Inexplicable, customer-unfriendly processes. Being forced to buy lots when...

Health Care Reform and Medical Innovation
on Nov 5, 2009 in Policy Conferences Innovation Tune in on November 20th for The Cato Institute's Policy Forum "Bending the Productivity Curve: How Would Health Care "Reform" Affect Medical Innovation?""Featuring Raymond Raad, New York Presbyterian Hospital / Weill Cornell Medical Center, and Coau...

5 Marketing Megatrends
on Nov 4, 2009 in Trends branding marketing Coming to a brand near you, from Adam Kleinberg at iMedia Connection, here are "5 marketing megatrends you can't ignore."Mass collaboration...Constant connectivity...Globalization...Pervasive distrust in big corporations...A global sense of urgency..

Dumb Luck: A Poor Substitute For Sound Strategy
on Nov 4, 2009 in strategy I'm Just Saying And so the maddeningly mediocre Chicago Bears beat the woeful Cleveland Browns last Sunday. Big deal. Neither team could beat USC.What's more interesting than the final score is Bears coach Lovie Smith's reaction to fan frustration with "da team's"...

Words To Live By
on Nov 4, 2009 in I'm Just Saying Personal Growth Think Different Quotations "If you have always done it that way, it's probably wrong." (Charles Kettering)"If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less. (General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff, U. S. Army)...