In the past year, there have been two themes I wrote and spoke about that have generated a great deal of interest: one is the concept of “NOW Mode”; and the other is the use of social tools in business. As I wrote previously, these two elements go hand in hand. Working in NOW Mode […]
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Social networking can alleviate drug shortages
From mid 2010 on, reports of chronic shortages of medication in the U.S. (see here and here) and Canada (examples here and here) particularly Generic medication – surfaced in the online press as well as conventional media (newspapers and TV) reaching unprecedented near-panic levels. Two years later, this structural problem of the pharmaceutical industry is still […]
The lack of reliability of Generic Pharma supply chains
Most industries have gone through several typical waves of transformation in the past 20+ years, namely customer centricity, consolidation and globalization. They haven’t all happened at the same time but for the older industries – e.g., Banking and Telecommunications – they took place largely in the 90′s and early 2000′s. Generic Pharmaceuticals is a relatively […]
The beauty of Process-Driven Organizations
Have you ever been in a meeting with 2 dozen people for 2 hours and noticed that, throughout the meeting, 4 or 5 people talked and everybody else was quiet? In large meetings, this is actually the norm: 20% of people are active and the rest are passive. And have you experienced meetings with lots […]
