Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2023

You’re not alone in seeing your team’s productivity tank. For example, a director in a pharmaceutical company asks one of his team members to manage a contract manufacturing organization (CMO). The first thing I did after being elected was call an all-hands meeting. I opened the meeting by addressing the elephant in the room.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 29, 2020

When the COVID-19 crisis became evident in South Africa in mid-March, the South African government put strict lockdown measures in place, including school closures and store lockdowns which were accompanied by reducing the output of production facilities. Unfortunately, households are not the only ones feeling the brunt of NPI’s. Conclusion.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 8, 2023

Studies reveal that a servant leadership style improves employee productivity and creativity. Employees are more likely to provide constructive criticism and engage in productive conflict without fear of exclusion or retaliation. People are looking to business leaders to help remove barriers that impact meeting their own needs.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2016

Since 1999, three years after OxyContin was unveiled by Purdue Pharmaceuticals, the rate of drug overdoses in the U.S. Meanwhile, the amount of prescription opioids sold by pharmaceutical companies has quadrupled, despite no proliferation in the amount of reported pain. Commercial.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 9, 2017

Few issues are more foundational to driving improvements in human health than creating productive, progressive relationships between clinical medicine and the biopharmaceutical industry. “Thou shall not” is the starting point for almost all academic institutions’ conflict-of-interest policy statements. Practicing physicians.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 28, 2018

2 As questions on how to rein in increasing healthcare costs continue to mount, and politicians focus on passing legislation and targeting the pharmaceutical industry, a possible solution may be wearable health devices. Offers include things like gift cards and small cash payments for meeting certain daily fitness goals.

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Confessions of a Consultant

APRIL 30, 2017

While it’s not an exact science, see what you make of the following story… Doug Meyer: In North America, a pharmaceutical company manufactured and marketed Consumer Health Products. A Product Of Our Past: Meyer, the youngest of two brothers, grew up in Scarsdale, Westchester, a thirty minute train ride north of Manhattan.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Nowadays, when a multitude of businesses are confronted with the leap from “dumb” products to creating smart, connected ones , and cities and regions are trying to make the leap from manufacturing to services, relying too heavily on past successes will only lock those clusters in the past.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The manager decides to meet with a field salesperson to get clarity and to work out some details for a quote. For companies that sell to businesses, meeting the buying needs of today’s customers requires a mindset shift. Amazon’s analytics use data to make inferences about what products each customer might buy.

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LSA Global

APRIL 18, 2017

Yes, the “old fashioned” bookstores all struggle to compete with online book sales but Borders had additional challenges they failed to meet. This outsized, rugged, status-symbol of a GM product failed to see the writing on the wall. The company failed on multiple fronts. Autopsy #2 – Hummer.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Only 13% of directors in the energy and utilities industry consider innovation to be a major strategic challenge, but the swift growth of renewable energy companies and such developments as the use of drones for monitoring oil and gas production suggest that no industry is impervious to the forces of innovation.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Pearson, the educational publisher, measures the efficacy of its products to improve educational outcomes. Cigna is the first insurance company to get pharmaceutical companies to agree to value pricing based on results for certain cholesterol-lowering drugs. ” Health care. ” Health care. Required Capabilities.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

The book will also tell you how not to annoy your people during meetings, how to generate and manage creative ideas, and how office politics can be a kind of problem-solving. The “productive laziness” is built on the Pareto principle that states that in many cases, 80% of the consequences come from 20% of the causes.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2017

Unfortunately, far too many patients remain hesitant to share their health data, even though they routinely share all sorts of personal data when buying consumer products online. Answering these questions will allow organizations involved in cancer research to meet patients where they are, just as DTC companies do. Know the patient.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 8, 2013

By now it is well known that the proprietor of the ''Silk Road'' internet marketplace for drugs and other illicit products has been busted by the FBI. See, in the mid-1930’s, there were two industries that had just made breakthrough machines that would make paper productions much more cost-effective.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Most businesses wouldn’t survive without driving demand for their products or services, either through marketing and advertising or through involving users so deeply in the design of the product that word of mouth spurs adoption. The same is true for social innovators. Great need doesn’t necessarily equal great demand.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

For instance, we examined predatory pricing in the airline industry and illegal product tying by Apple, Microsoft, and AT&T. What I found particularly fascinating was the number of variables that needed to be taken into account while making strategic decisions on governance, production or any other function.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g., pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2016

As we’ve written previously , the best path to accelerated growth with limited risk often comes from creating new products and services that leverage a company’s existing resources, customers, and capabilities. Gillette dominated the men’s shaving market with its Mach series of razors.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

The initiatives included streamlining patient administration in a hospital, implementing a customer-relationship-management (CRM) system in a financial services organization, rolling out a global enterprise-resource-planning (ERP) system for a pharmaceutical company, and promoting collaboration in a technology company.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 24, 2017

Compensation should be tied to broad-based outcomes and include things such as customer satisfaction and product knowledge, in addition to success at closing deals. The CEO of Volkswagen from 1993 to 2002 was famous for his willingness to demote or fire employees who failed to meet expectations. Consider the case of GSK.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Prasad, CEO of Dr. Reddy’s, a 33-year-old global pharmaceutical company headquartered in India that produces affordable generic medication. ” But instead of plastering this new slogan on motivational posters and repeating it in all-hands meetings, the leadership team began by quietly using it to start guiding their own decisions.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

A global pharmaceutical company was about to lose the strategic advantage of several blockbuster drugs coming off patent. Or the circle might ask what new products or services the company could capably provide to maneuver into an entirely new marketplace. paul Garbett for HBR. In five years, the revenue shortfall would be significant.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

As an outgrowth of a multi-district pharmaceutical case, the firm formed its technology practice, specializing in e-discovery solutions and software. Retail & Consumer Products. Promotions are dependent on how quickly you meet functional competencies and skill requirements set out for you by the powers that be. Real Estate.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2017

A year later, Lauren was working as a temp to make ends meet when she applied to what was essentially a marketing assistant job. “I told the hiring manager that I had a very firm grasp of those products,” she says. ” One day he interviewed for a marketing support job at a pharmaceutical company.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

I’d wake up at 6 to ride my bike to the pool for swim team practice, shower and change at the gym so I could get dropped off from 10-5, and taught swim lessons in the evenings when we didn’t have meets. Over spring break in my second year, I did an externship, working for NBC’s “Meet the Press.” I lived in Washington, D.C.,

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

During this same time, IBM and Coopers & Lybrand formed Meritus Consulting Services to provide strategic advice to businesses in the consumer packaged goods, pharmaceutical, aerospace, and automotive industries. Consumer Products. 1992, IBM unveiled another service called IBM Consulting Group. During 1992 and 1993, IBM U.K.,

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 22, 2020

Because who wants to have a pharmaceutical drug that has a bunch of side effects unless you have to? The other thing is we want to make sure that we're able to clear out toxins which inhibit the production of hormones and nutrients and their function. It's a natural instinct in the animal world; it's a natural instinct of ours.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

Selling productized consulting. As a consultant, your product is your advice. He said he did a quick Internet search for ‘ag equipment product design’ and we were in the top few results. Selling Productized Consulting. And your productized consulting offers also function as attractive lead magnets as well.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

I was pleased with our meeting, feeling like she had made a real commitment. Looking ahead, we will continue to drive productivity, and we plan to conduct a deep dive into the details of our cost structure and allocation of capital to ensure we deliver appropriate returns for shareholders.” ” It worked.

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2018

The women led companies in various industries including financial services, consumer products, and healthcare. As Tara (Executive Vice President, consumer products) told us, “You stand out more. The Black female leaders we interviewed were all within four levels of the CEO (e.g., You are the only one in the room.”

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2017

This is the challenge for all kinds of disruptors, whether in the auto industry, pharmaceuticals, service industries, or healthcare. The fact is, going it alone, we believe, is simply not the way to go at all. Collaboration is the essential new secret sauce for startups and industry leaders alike.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The business model of research-based pharmaceutical companies is under significant pressure. The estimated return on these (fewer) products has itself declined substantially since 2010, from 10.1% However, it also reflects stronger pressures to lower medicine costs in traditional pharmaceutical markets.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2016

The key product and customer jobs no longer attracted the best talent. After seeing this data presented, the CEO left the meeting committed to reversing course. One simple way to maintain speed as your company grows is by having fewer, higher impact meetings. It’s a common story in business today.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 7, 2017

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced its approval of nusinersen (sold as “Spinraza”), an effective SMA treatment licensed to Biogen by Ionis Pharmaceuticals. Nusinersen is an antisense oligonucleotide, a brief DNA sequence that increases SMN protein production.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2016

A large pharmaceutical company, for example, learned about an unsuspected customer challenge through a single photo on Flickr. This single picture led to changes in the product and communications, and increased customer satisfaction. Consider the tenet of “adequate sample sizes” and its antithesis online.

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