Insights + Opinions

If you are like me, when you hear the word innovation you imagine big things … putting a man on the moon … flying cars … low-cost...

At a recent speaking engagement, I was asked if there was a quick way to tell if an organization has an innovation problem. The...

The great business management philosopher Yogi Berra once said, “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.”...

The word entrepreneur is more than 150 years old, having come into English from French in 1828. But it was not until comparatively...

Doctor George Shearer practiced medicine in central Pennsylvania from 1825 to 1878 (in the Dillsburg area). He was a pillar of the...

Those of you who know me, know that I have spent my career as both an Entrepreneur and more recently … an Intrapreneur .   I have also...

I had lunch recently with my good friend and local entrepreneurial legend Ching-Ho Fung.  Ching-Ho was the Chairman of Parature until the...

Considering it is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the timing of this post is hopefully helping a very important cause.  For reasons I...

It has been said that “data” is the new “oil” of the 21st century. That is certainly true in healthcare where a unique opportunity exists...

Traditionally, Doctors have been oriented toward diagnosing and treating individual organ systems. Clinical trials and medical research...

If you are in the healthcare industry, you know you are facing a number of significant challenges. First and foremost, you are being...

When I think of how most healthcare organizations are analyzing their clinical data today … I get a mental picture of the old depression...

In my last blog post, Healthcare and ECM – What’s Up Doc? , I wrote about using ECM-based content analytics technology to help accelerate...

This is one of those industry-centric topics everyone can relate to … we all need healthcare and we’ll all use it at some point in our...

When I was a wee lad … back in the 60s … I used to rush home from elementary school to watch the re-runs on TV. This was long before...

I first became aware of this matter about 10 years ago when I read a story about a woman named Josephine Wild Gun (yes, that is her name)...

As most of you know I have been periodically posting some of the really fascinating top 100 innovations of the past 100 years as part of...

ECM and BPM evil doers beware! The days of creeping requirements … endless application rollout delays … one-size fits all user...

Do you listen to your customers? No, really! Of course, everyone answers “yes” when asked this question.  So much so … that the question...

Nearly all the companies our grandparents admired have disappeared. Of the top 25 industrial corporations in the United States in 1900,...