Scan Monthly No. 031September 2005 |
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Signals of Change
From Cocreation to Competition
SoC129
As industrialized societies evolve beyond industrial business models, companies will need to discover new roles and new sources of value to deliver. Customer cocreation is the latest rage, but companies will need to develop ways of accommodating cocreation models without suffering marginalization.
Nanomedicine
SoC130
Researchers are intent on devising medical interventions that either cure disease or treat damaged and diseased tissue at the level of both single molecules and molecular assemblies. The end result will be the creation of a conceptual and literal interface between biology and medical devices at the scale of biomolecular processes.
Sensation-al Design
SoC131
Innovative companies are turning to physical sensations as the focus of their efforts to engage the consumer. Product and service design approaches that involve the senses—sensation-al design—are logical extensions of both the experience and the attention economies, but they drive more directly to the physical senses.
A New Species in Telecom
SoC132
The purchase of peer-to-peer (P2P) voice-over- Internet-protocol provider Skype by the massive P2P auction-site eBay will create a new kind of beast: a pure-play P2P company with global reach and 153 million avid innovators.
Sustainability Redux
SoC133
For whatever reasons (cultural, market, and marketing are just three possibilities), sustainability is seeing a resurgence in the business press, corporate strategies, and regulatory agendas. Using renewable, recyclable resources rather than depleting nonrenewables is suddenly all the rage again. Sustainability may turn out to be a little more profitable this time round.
Leveraging Existing Infrastructures
SoC134
The proliferation of information infrastructures, consisting of components ranging all the way from hardware to pure data, is creating opportunities for innovators who can leverage those infrastructures into new products, services, and even business models. Because the infrastructure already exists, entry costs can be low enough to allow small businesses or even individuals to play.
Insights
| Health-Care Innovation Opportunities | View full summary |
| D05-2514 | Download this Insight |
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The health-care industry is ripe for change. Spiraling costs, the rapid development of new treatment technologies, the emergence of new concepts of health and wellness, the development of new diagnostic capabilities, and the impracticality of traditional funding mechanisms all point to the inevitability of dramatic if not revolutionary change in the industry. (See also D05-2515, Revolutionary Solutions to Health Care's Malaise.) Revolutionary developments inevitably change the existing landscape in unpredictable ways, creating larger numbers of winners and losers than emerge in a stable environment. The winners are those who seize or create new opportunities on the basis of the changing landscape. This study speculates about some of the potential opportunities that are emerging as a result of the confluence of commercial, cultural, scientific, and technological forces. Authors: Andrew Broderick, Bill Ralston, Kermit M. Patton. 14 pages. |
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| Revolutionary Solutions to Health Care's Malaise | View full summary |
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Spending on health care increasingly accounts for a substantial portion of the GDP of all industrialized nations. With demand for health care effectively infinite, the universal challenge for payers for health-care services is to slow down the rate of cost increases and the rate of spending growth. With U.S. health-care spending almost twice the average of spending in other OECD countries and likely to rise at an average rate of 7% per annum to 18.7% of GDP by 2014, the health system is in urgent need of reforms that bring about systemic change. Assuming that the health-care system in the United States is the next logical victim of a disruptive revolution, this study examines the forces at work and some of the possible outcomes as new players, new technologies, and innovative business models disrupt the traditional means of delivering health care in the industrialized world. Author: Andrew Broderick. 8 pages. |
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