Darwin's Medicine

This podcast the first in a series about the human factors that influence your firm's ability to create and execute strong competitive strategies. There's also an accompanying video. Just search 'Professor Brian D Smith' on YouTube.

If you would like to read the full length article on which this seminar is based, you can request at www.pragmedic.com (my latest publications).    I’d welcome comments on this podcast and if you find it useful, please share it with your colleagues.   

If you would like to browse over 300 articles about the evolution of business models and strategy in the life sciences industry, take a look at www.pragmedic.com, my published work.  If you'd like to follow my research in this area, follow at LinkedIn (@drbriandsmith) and Twitter (@profbriansmith)   

If, like me, you're fascinated by our industry and would like to set up an informal, virtual chat with me then get in touch through www.pragmedic.com. And of course I'd love it if you shared, liked and subscribed to both my Darwin's Medicine podcast and my YouTube channel.

When parts of the market go through difficult times, it sometimes creates positive change. In this podcast, I use a remark by a Roche executive to illustrate how "creative destruction" works in the life sciences industry.  

I’d welcome comments and if you find this useful, please share it with your colleagues.   

If you would like to read the full length article on which this seminar is based, you can request at www.pragmedic.com (my latest publications).   

If you would like to browse over 300 articles about the evolution of business models and strategy in the life sciences industry, take a look at www.pragmedic.com, my published work. 

 If you'd like to follow my research in this area, follow at LinkedIn (@drbriandsmith) and Twitter (@profbriansmith)  

 If, like me, you're fascinated by our industry and would like to set up an informal, virtual chat with me then get in touch through www.pragmedc.com. And of course I'd love it if you shared, liked and subscribed to both my Darwin's Medicine podcast and my YouTube channel.

Not all CEOs are the same and the kind of CEO your company is important to both your firm and your career.

 In this video, I draw parallels between keystone genes and "alleles"  of CEO. 

I’d welcome comments and if you find this useful, please share it with your colleagues.   

If you would like to read the full length article on which this seminar is based, you can request at www.pragmedic.com (my latest publications).   

If you would like to browse over 300 articles about the evolution of business models and strategy in the life sciences industry, take a look at www.pragmedic.com, my published work.  

If you'd like to follow my research in this area, follow at LinkedIn (@drbriandsmith) and Twitter (@profbriansmith) 

 If, like me, you're fascinated by our industry and would like to set up an informal, virtual chat with me then get in touch through www.pragmedc.com. 

And of course I'd love it if you shared, liked and subscribed to both my Darwin's Medicine podcast and my YouTube channel.

We'd all like to peek into the future of the life sciences industry and understanding its past helps us to do that. 

For example, the way that antibiotics shaped industry in the 1940s is a guide to how Covid with have long term effects in the 2020s and beyond. 

 I’d welcome comments and if you find this useful, please share it with your colleagues.   If you would like to read the full length article on which this seminar is based, you can request at www.pragmedic.com (my latest publications).   If you would like to browse over 300 articles about the evolution of business models and strategy in the life sciences industry, take a look at www.pragmedic.com, my published work.  If you'd like to follow my research in this area, follow at LinkedIn (@drbriandsmith) and Twitter (@profbriansmith)   If, like me, you're fascinated by our industry and would like to set up an informal, virtual chat with me then get in touch through www.pragmedc.com. And of course I'd love it if you shared, liked and subscribed to both my Darwin's Medicine podcast and my YouTube channel.

The  ability to strategise seems to be partly innate, partly learned. 

Great strategists seem to have four instinctive behaviours that distinguish them  from others.

 This doesn't mean strategising skills can't be learned, only that how they are taught has to adapt to the innate abilities of the strategist.  

I’d welcome comments and if you find this useful, please share it with your colleagues.   If you would like to read the full length article on which this seminar is based, you can request at www.pragmedic.com (my latest publications).   If you would like to browse over 300 articles about the evolution of business models and strategy in the life sciences industry, take a look at www.pragmedic.com, my published work.  If you'd like to follow my research in this area, follow at LinkedIn (@drbriandsmith) and Twitter (@profbriansmith)   If, like me, you're fascinated by our industry and would like to set up an informal, virtual chat with me then get in touch through www.pragmedc.com. And of course I'd love it if you shared, liked and subscribed to both my Darwin's Medicine podcast and my YouTube channel.Description to follow

Anthropologists have found that human brains have shrunk since we made the transition from hunter-gather to settled societies, due to something they call "cognitive offloading". My work suggests something analogous -decision offloading - happens in some life science companies. Those companies that disdain hierarchies and obsess with alignment and buy in seem to constrain decisive managers, causing their decision making skills to wither.  I’d welcome comments and if you find this useful, please share it with your colleagues.  If you would like to read the full length article on which this seminar is based, email me at [email protected].  If you would like to browse over 300 articles about the evolution of business models and strategy in the life sciences industry, take a look at www.pragmedic.com.  If you'd like to follow my research in this area, follow at LinkedIn (@drbriandsmith) and Twitter (@profbriansmith)  If, like me, you're fascinated by our industry and would like to set up an informal, virtual chat with me then get in touch. And of course I'd love it if you shared, liked and subscribed to both my Darwin's Medicine podcast and my YouTube channel.

Expert strategists seem to be able to read the market, inferring important insight from very little information. When they do this, they often reading the secret signals that the market sends out but which most people miss. This gives them a head start on understanding the market.

This seminar gives you an insight into how these secret signals work. I’d welcome comments and if you like it, please share it.

If you would like to read the full length article on which this seminar is based, email me at [email protected].

If you would like to browse over 300 articles about the evolution of business models and strategy in the life sciences industry, take a look at www.pragmedic.com.

If you'd like to follow my research in this area, follow at LinkedIn (@drbriandsmith) and Twitter (@profbriansmith)

If, like me, you're fascinated by our industry and would like to set up an informal, virtual chat with me then get in touch. And of course I'd love it if you shared, liked and subscribed to both my Darwin's Medicine podcast and my YouTube channel.

Some people seem to be born with better strategic instincts than others.  

This doesn't mean "instinctive" strategists are naturally good at strategising and others can't ever be strategists. 

 But it does mean that how we develop strategists needs to recognise individuals' inherent traits.  

If you would like to read the full length article on which it is based, email me at [email protected].  

If you would like to browse over 300 articles about the evolution of business models and strategy in the life sciences industry, take a look at www.pragmedic.com.

 If you'd like to follow my research in this area, follow at LinkedIn (@drbriandsmith) and Twitter (@profbriansmith) 

And if, like me, you're fascinated by our industry and would like to set up an informal, virtual chat with me then get in touch. And of course I'd love it if you shared, liked and subscribed to both my Darwin's Medicine podcast and my YouTube channel.

The only way to make sense of pharmaceutical and medical technology markets is to understand them as complex, adaptive ecosystems. 

This video summarises how ideas from ecology apply to the world's most important industry and can help you understand it better. 

If you would like to read the full length article on which it is based, email me at [email protected].  If you would like to browse over 300 articles about the evolution of business models and strategy in the life sciences industry, take a look at www.pragmedic.com.

If you'd like to follow my research in this area, follow at LinkedIn (@drbriandsmith) and Twitter (@profbriansmith)

If, like me, you're fascinated by our industry and would like to set up an informal, virtual chat with me then get in touch.

And of course I'd love it if you shared, liked and subscribed to both my Darwin's Medicine podcast and my YouTube channel.