As 2011 winds down there is positive news in the quarterly jobless numbers,in real estate and the stock market. 2012 should be better than the last four years of the recession. OK it may not be boom time but there does appear to be the right signals for at least modestly better economic times aheadContinue reading “As the economy turns around in 2012: re-training opportunities in the healthcare value chain”
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Post-911: Innovation,B2B Marketing and Supply Chain have gone global
The ten years since 911 has made America much more globalized than ever before. Today you are likely to see some international news in every TV news program as a discernible increase in the global nature of food in food courts across America! Here is how innovation,B2B marketing and the supply chain have gone global:Continue reading “Post-911: Innovation,B2B Marketing and Supply Chain have gone global”
America Invents Act 2011 to become law next week: how it might create jobs
President Obama's jobs speech of Thursday signalled the massive reform of US patent law to spur innovation and jobs. It's intriguing that lots of main stream media is criticizing the law given that it was passed in a bipartisan fashion (for a change 89 for and 9 against in the Senate). The mere fact ofContinue reading “America Invents Act 2011 to become law next week: how it might create jobs”
Google Patent Search helps acquisitions and defend IP- as in Motorola
If you use Google Patents (Beta) , you can search patents and that allows you to find patents around a technology and who else is citing a patent. So let us say Apple cites a Motorola patent and Google acquires all of Motorola's patents its hard for Apple to prove that Google Android or MotorolaContinue reading “Google Patent Search helps acquisitions and defend IP- as in Motorola”
US Employment: Opportunity at the high knowledge end and the high touch end
Rana Faroohar of Time discusses the 5 myths of the economic recovery. And a variety of folks have been talking about some of these issues for a long time, notably Thomas Friedman in his The World is Flat that in part, inspired the start of this blog. It's becoming clearer there are only two endsContinue reading “US Employment: Opportunity at the high knowledge end and the high touch end”
US Innovation: A High-Tech small sector led growth is the answer ?
Where can US Innovation lead to jobs is a question on everyone's minds. A clue is from today's stock rally, spurred in part by the Fusion-io IPO, after six days of stock market losses. Fusion-io makes flash memory storage and its largest customer is Facebook who use their infrastructure to manage all those millions ofContinue reading “US Innovation: A High-Tech small sector led growth is the answer ?”
Internet increases complexity for the supply chain
The Internet is great as it allows search engines (Google,Yahoo,MSN etc.) and social media (Facebook,Twitter) to create algorithms that deliver personalised content to the Internet user. Based on this highly segmented audience search engines and social media can now provide highly segmented and "customized" advertising targets. Advertising is cost efficient and highly effective because nowContinue reading “Internet increases complexity for the supply chain”
Where are the variations in healthcare costs? Family of four spending doubles in nine years
According to the Milliman Inc. "Milliman Medical Index -MMI " US families of four are paying double of what they paid($9,235) in 2002 today at $19,393. The family expenses have gone up by 7.3% from 2010 numbers that sure is more than double of the average US inflation rate.Left alone this increase is going toContinue reading “Where are the variations in healthcare costs? Family of four spending doubles in nine years”
Healthcare innovation: treating elderly dementia patients in nursing homes
The elderly in nursing homes are particularly vulnerable patients, entirely dependent on the good sense and good will of professional care givers. Hence the question of giving anti-psychotic drugs to aggressive dementia patients to calm them down and basically give less trouble to care givers. As much as 88% of these wrong prescriptions are claimedContinue reading “Healthcare innovation: treating elderly dementia patients in nursing homes”
Medical insurance innovation: Doctor’s offices – collect the co-pay at patient visit!
All medical insurers are trying to improve their innovation efforts with new hires who will improve different elements of the health insurance value chain. Let us look at the co-pay process at the doctor-patient link in the medical insurance business. If you observe, there is great variation in processes across the same insurance companies "network"Continue reading “Medical insurance innovation: Doctor’s offices – collect the co-pay at patient visit!”