Executive Briefing Notes & White Papers

Enabling Strategic Fit to a New Era

Nearly everyone is trying to figure out how to deal with a new operating environment whose main features are complexity, interactivity, and high-velocity evolution. It produces more upheaval and disorientation than any one person, business, or government can respond to effectively. What no longer works is “monovation” — depending on a single source of innovation.

This has two implications. The first is the importance of building collaboration that spans market and industry environments, engages in the boldest forms of connection making, and unifies multiple stakeholders. The second is the importance of shaping developments proactively around a new theory for growth.

Our executive briefing notes can help navigate the transition space to a new era.

HARNESSING THE CARNIVAL: STRATEGY FOR ‘MARKET INTEROPERABILITY’IN HEALTHCARE

Fragmentation in healthcare is getting worse, not better. The first problem for a strategy to solve is ‘market interoperability’

AN $860 BILLION SYSTEM OF MARKETS IN ALZHEIMER’s

The ‘rough mix’ of markets combined here can spark a new economic system (“ecosystem”) whose annual revenue is around $860 billion.

A NEW SYSTEM OF MARKETS IN CARDIOMETABOLIC HEALTH

The ecosystem vision positioned here is a ‘rough mix’ of markets that can be combined into a $200 billion ‘meta-market’ centered on the production of cardiometabolic health

THE KEYSTONE ADVANTAGE IN PHARMA

Commercial model innovation in the pharmaceutical industry should “work” differently. It’s about constructing new market power to shift the center-of-gravity for competition.

A NEW SYSTEM OF MARKETS IN MALARIA

Changing the impact of malaria in Africa starts by intentionally designing a system of markets — a new economic system — to operate as a single organism