There Needs To Be Conviction And Action

The Outsourcing Gurus Have Been Driving The Theory, And They Are Saying Everybody Ought Always To Do This. But It Is Really Contingent On Where You Are On The Spectrum From "not Good Enough" To "more Than Good Enough," Relative To Each Tier Of The Market.

There Are Other Dimensions Of Biotechnology. If You Think Of Biotechnology Like The Internet, It's Not A Category - It's An Infrastructure That Can Be Deployed To Sustain Or Disrupt. In Health Care, The Most Complex Problems At The High End Have To Be Dealt With In A Problem-solving Mode By The Best, Most Experienced Physicians You Can Find.

In My First Career I Had Founded My Own Company, With A Group Of Mit Professors, Before Coming To Harvard To Finish My Doctorate, And So I Had A Deep Respect For The Brains, Talent, And Dedication Of Managers. That Made It Hard For Me To Believe The Attributions In The Business Press That Stupid Management Was To Blame. So I Looked Elsewhere For An Explanation.

Government Mandates, Incidentally, Are Likely To Distort Rather Than Solve The Problem Of Finding A Market. I Would, Therefore, Force My Organization To Live By Its Wits Rather Than To Rely On Capricious Subsidies Or Non-economic-based Regulation To Fuel My Business.

Watching How Customers Actually Use A Product Provides Much More Reliable Information Than Can Be Gleaned From A Verbal Interview Or A Focus Group.