Innovation makes the world go round and some industries are more exposed to this fact than others. In this blog we often talk about changing pharmaceutical industry innovation practices. Telecom is another example of an industry for which innovation is a matter of life and death. Changes are deep and Read more »
Category Archives: Partnering
A unified Business Development and Partnering system, lessons learned from a Biopharma Leader
We recently finalized the deployment of our Business Development & Licensing product suite at one of the largest global pharmaceutical companies. This deployment represents a significant shift from a company that was plagued with the challenges and inefficiencies of a widely decentralized, geographically and culturally diverse community of business development Read more »
It’s 3AM, Do You Know Where Your Intangible Assets Are?
For many years, public service announcements and newscasts on television began with the phrase, “It’s 10pm, do you know where your children are?” In the decades of prosperity following World War II, as households increasingly were led by two-career marriages and children became more independent, this phrase became popularized as Read more »
Do Mergers and Acquistions Bring Lasting Value?
Over 300 billion dollars of value evaporated between the moment the AOL Time Warner merger was announced in January 2000 and December 2009, when AOL spun off and started to trade as its own public company again. While this transaction is certainly an extreme case when measured in terms of Read more »
Connected Innovation and business models
I recently attended the World Innovation Forum ’09 at the Nokia Theater in New York (May 2009) and three speakers from that conference spoke about three themes that converged to provide a backdrop for a discussion on the essential capabilities a company needs to have in order to emerge from Read more »