Over the next decade, emerging technologies and value-based care will completely transform the patient experience. — Venture fundraising in healthcare reached $10.4B in the first half of 2020, equal to all of 2019’s record year. Then, in the first half of 2021, global venture capital funding for digital health companies reached $15 billion. Moreover, competitors outside the traditional healthcare space such as Amazon, Google and Apple…

During the Summer of 1966 I was dying of boredom. Then my cousin Alan, a handsome, James-Dean-type, pulled into our driveway in a shiny new Pontiac GTO. I couldn’t imagine in my wildest dreams how such a magnificent car had come into my cousin’s possession. “I have a job,” he…

By 2025, at least half of the world’s leading digital retailers will take share by anticipating the needs of customers versus responding to them. — When Jack Welch made his famous observation — that competitive advantage lies in the ability to respond to needs faster than competitors — he was looking through a 1980s lens when concepts like smart machines, artificial intelligence, big data and advanced algorithms resided in ivory towers and science fiction films.

In the future, robots and virtual assistants will unleash our creativity by freeing us from the mundane. Have-your-people-call-my-people is an old Hollywood expression for “I’m too important to consume my time in petty tasks like setting up meetings or lunches.” I actually became one of these archetypes (albeit temporarily) when…

ADVICE FOR FICTION WRITERS Use the Kafka Train Ride to Unlock Your Story This simple technique will blow your mind as its exposes your characters’ motivations, hesitations, and deepest fears. Are you an experienced storyteller having a bit of writer’s block? Perhaps you’ve always wanted to try your hand at fiction — or you want to try a different…

If you’re a consulting newbie, use these techniques to look and act like a veteran. — Every consulting firm trains its people in its methodology, delivery techniques, and payment models. Few however, provide education aimed squarely at the psychology of how to sell and deliver consulting services. If you’re new to the field you will learn a lot through trial-and-error. But, to save you a bit…

Is a hyperconnected economy where having more connections, more followers, more fans, and more influence —at a tipping point? — Global connectivity, which makes it as easy to connect to people across the world, as to those in the next cubical, is one of the most dramatic developments of the modern age. But, things are changing. Peer into the future, and hyperconnectivity has assumed new shapes, forms and business models…

When technology does things we humans don’t want to do, find too dangerous to do, or solve problems we’re not smart enough to solve, will we enter a scientific and cultural rebirth? Richard Fouts During the industrial age we learned to make things. Then came the quality movement which taught…

Scores of investors showed Len Bosack the door when he pitched his idea (which later became Cisco). HP told Steve Jobs to take a hike when he proposed a new product to the board of directors (they thought it too radical). As Jobs exited the boardroom he heard someone mutter…