This article moves us up the healthcare value chain by highlighting the impact that COVID-19 has had on clinical trials. Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Ben van der Schaaf and Pan Xi describe the current state of mHealth along with technology innovations that forward-looking R&D leaders in pharmaceuticals are deploying. Knowing that the current shift will not be temporary, the authors urge healthcare organizations “to adapt and be in the right place at the right time … to prepare for this imminent change.”

Heléne Spjuth examines the economics of mHealth and the resulting challenges and opportunities for all stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem. In defining the healthcare ecosystem and its various reimbursement models, she shows the “unique circumstances that will serve either as barriers to, or enablers of, mHealth’s efficient implementation.”

Heléne Spjuth examines the economics of mHealth and the resulting challenges and opportunities for all stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem. In defining the healthcare ecosystem and its various reimbursement models, she shows the “unique circumstances that will serve either as barriers to, or enablers of, mHealth’s efficient implementation.”

The process of residual analysis tests and proves (or disproves) the ability of the system to meet stressors for which it has not been designed. For those obvious stressors normally not included in a risk assessment, the process provides a method for analyzing how these stressors react when they occur in chains and eventually gives a sense of how the system behaves when exposed to stress in general.

The process of residual analysis tests and proves (or disproves) the ability of the system to meet stressors for which it has not been designed. For those obvious stressors normally not included in a risk assessment, the process provides a method for analyzing how these stressors react when they occur in chains and eventually gives a sense of how the system behaves when exposed to stress in general.

Unfortunately, for many decision makers in gov­ernment and industry today, practicing robust risk management is still seen within their organizations’ social context as providing little if any positive upside, but instead possessing potentially large downside conse­quences for them personally and professionally. Many decision makers skeptically view rigorous risk analysis as akin to future blame analysis for something that might go wrong rather than a way to increase career or organization success. Changing this perception is difficult but not impossible.

Levie Hofstee, cofounder of Neurocast, describes advancements made by his company. Neurocast is a later-stage startup gaining traction in using mHealth to provide real-world data on patients suffering from chronic disease, such as multiple sclerosis, both to aid new discoveries and to support 24/7 data collection during clinical trials.

Levie Hofstee, cofounder of Neurocast, describes advancements made by his company. Neurocast is a later-stage startup gaining traction in using mHealth to provide real-world data on patients suffering from chronic disease, such as multiple sclerosis, both to aid new discoveries and to support 24/7 data collection during clinical trials.

Customer journey insight allows businesses to increase customer satisfaction and loyalty, retain customers, and increase sales. In this Advisor, we make the case for stronger customer involvement, clearer governance, quantification of value, and a sharper focus, as we find these elements are the four main reasons implemen­tations of customer journeys fail.

In the drive to digitize more business processes, the intricacies of how all stakeholders inter­act with data have been underexposed. Though it is understandable that getting a grip on technology and reorganizing your business is hard enough, it is precisely this interaction that will determine your success. If you turn your perspective around, your data architecture will be of more value.

In this edition of the Cutter Edge, you'll explore a five-stage strategy execution scenario and the role of business architecture within each stage; how fast feedback processes, measurable outcomes, and empowerment can help businesses improve the quality and efficiency of their work; how shifting to IT development production lines can enhance software delivery, and more.

In this edition of the Cutter Edge, you'll explore a five-stage strategy execution scenario and the role of business architecture within each stage; how fast feedback processes, measurable outcomes, and empowerment can help businesses improve the quality and efficiency of their work; how shifting to IT development production lines can enhance software delivery, and more.

How interested are organizations in extending the capabilities of their RPA platforms and tools with more advanced, AI-based technologies? Fortunately, some initial findings from our ongoing survey on intelligent process automation (IPA) adoption in the enterprise helps shed some light on this question.

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to sizable disruptions in international economic activity, impacting all industries, although at different magnitudes. It is now time for decision makers to expand their focus beyond immediate crisis management to actions that will strengthen their competitive play in the medium and long term. Here in Part II of this Advisor series, we take a look at telecom, equipment vendors, and Internet services, in particular.

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to sizable disruptions in international economic activity, impacting all industries, although at different magnitudes. It is now time for decision makers to expand their focus beyond immediate crisis management to actions that will strengthen their competitive play in the medium and long term. Here in Part II of this Advisor series, we take a look at telecom, equipment vendors, and Internet services, in particular.

We buy fire insurance for our homes not because we expect a great return on the investment, but because the modest fee is a hedge against catastrophic loss. In light of the risk lessons learned thus far in 2020, increased investment in risk management going forward seems prudent.

Value stream mapping (VSM) is a Lean manufacturing method used to analyze and manage the flow of materials/information/product to be able to bring a product to a customer. This Advisor proposes an eight-step VSM exercise to help team members all get on the same page.

The promise of the big and complicated framework, method, or architecture is our safety. Conformance to norms leads to acceptability in our modern techno-geocentricity: we are the center, we hold the center, nothing else matters, we know all that needs to be known. But are we at an inflection point? On the one hand, we have a world dominated by increasingly complicated frameworks detailing each and every aspect of a “transformation,” be it agile, digital, or other, along with associated architectures. On the other hand, we can contrast this framework approach with alternatives emerging from complex adaptive systems and complexity science. Unfortunately, those alternatives come with the cognitive load associated with uncertainty and ambiguity, and it is this friction that maintains the status quo.

Discover why shifting to IT development production lines, managed in the same way as the vehicle production processes, can improve software delivery in your organization.

You might think that a pandemic such as COVID-19 would offer an ideal opportunity to prove the value of data-driven decision making; you would be mistaken.

You might think that a pandemic such as COVID-19 would offer an ideal opportunity to prove the value of data-driven decision making; you would be mistaken.

In 2-hours/day for 2-days, decision makers, strategists, technologists and program implementers will gain a deep understanding of the most urgent digital disruption threats and the ways of thinking and transforming essential to success in this era of disruption. Glean new strategic perspectives your team can incorporate into future plans and actions, and discuss and share ideas and experiences with both your team and colleagues from other participating organizations.

In this on-demand webinar, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Barry M. O’Reilly introduces a new way to model systems in complex environments — residuality theory. You'll explore how residue can be used as an alternative building block when producing systems, enabling designers to consider complex interdependencies without slowing down the design process.

In this Executive Update, we look at how product intelligence helps address challenges to achieving product leadership, as well as the general business improvements that improved product data and insight can drive.