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Life Sciences - September 2023
- How we helped lower the cost of a unique deal structure
- Study finds that AI could serve as a backup set of “eyes” when searching for signs of breast cancer
- AI can diagnose and predict the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, heart failure, and more
- Randomized control trials are the ‘gold standard’ of research but fall short on gender-affirming care
Healthcare Providers - September 2023
- How leading health systems are learning from the past and designing for the future
- Big health systems keep switching to Epic
- The percentage of US doctors in adult primary care has been declining for years and isn’t improving
- Bipartisan bill aims to bolster primary care workforce with a $26 billion investment
Media & Technology - September 2023
- How to set up a robust compliance structure and mitigate risk
- The media and entertainment industries need to prepare for generative AI’s disruption or risk falling behind
- There’s significant value to be gained from generative AI. But first, you must understand how it differs from previous generations.
- The EU has introduced new rules aimed at giving users more choices and making competition fairer among big tech companies
Consumer & Retail - August 2023
- How to develop and execute a successful ESG strategy
- Consumers want more personalized and seamless buying experiences
- NRF released its annual look at the fastest-growing retailers in the U.S. with the top 25 companies seeing sales growth above 25%
- Taco Bell is on track for a record year of growth with digital sales growing 35% year-over-year
Manufacturing - August 2023
- How to move beyond boom-and-bust employment cycles
- AI can power your ability to make faster, better decisions while optimizing resources and reducing costs
- Upskilling and reskilling employees can help manufacturers keep pace in a rapidly changing mobility market
- Looking to unlock new levels of agility and resiliency?
Life Sciences - August 2023
- How to find the right partnership
- A new approach to predicting stock market reactions to clinical trial developments could provide a foundation for more sophisticated analysis
- A new report shows that NIH spent about 10% of what pharma and biotech companies committed over the same period
- GE HealthCare is bringing its wearable, wireless patient monitoring system, Portrait Mobile, to the U.S.
Healthcare Payers - August 2023
- Shift from surviving to thriving
- Cautious optimism” best describes Q2 earnings as insurers generally outperformed market expectations
- The rise in popularity of GLP-1 drugs has driven up health plan costs
- A new survey shows nearly 9 out of 10 Gen-Zers are struggling with mental health on a regular basis
Healthcare Providers - August 2023
- How to get serious about tech-enabled care
- Healthcare C-suites are zeroing in on system “redesigns” to provide more care and services with fewer staff members and tighter margins
- Projections indicate that by 2030, 30% of U.S. primary care will be owned by non-traditional players like Amazon and Walmart
- Study shows that hospitals’ data breach risks double just before and after M&A
Healthcare Payers - July 2023
- Case Study: How building core capabilities can accelerate your revenue strategy
- CMS, Medicaid agencies, and commercial insurers are experimenting with payment models that provide incentives for underserved patients
- Nearly 2 million people have been disenrolled from Medicaid to date
- The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) has requested information to design a future episode-based payment model
Environmental, Social, & Governance - July 2023
- How to Center Racial Justice in Your Climate Action Planning
- Struggling to tackle Scope 3 emissions?
- CSRD, ISSB, TCFD, SEC, SFDR, oh my! ESG reporting can feel like an alphabet soup of acronyms
- In a big step towards ESG reporting standardization, the ISSB recently released its global sustainability and climate disclosure standards
Manufacturing - July 2023
- How to evolve with AI
- Workforce planning is an ongoing process, not a one-time event. Regularly assess your needs and adjust as needed
- The automotive industry is facing a significant talent gap as skilled employees age out of the workforce
- Leveraging data and insights can be the key to new levels of agility and resilience in your organization
Consumer & Retail - July 2023
- How to find fresh ways to win customer loyalty and love for your brand
- Consumers want more personalized and seamless buying experiences
- Retailers are embracing AI to enhance the in-store shopping experience and analyze customer behavior
- Chipotle is testing a robot that can cut, core, and peel avocados in a fraction of the time it takes humans to do it
Media & Technology - July 2023
- How to optimize demand generation for streamlined, sustainable growth
- With the impending loss of third-party cookies on the horizon, now is the time to build new ways of finding and reaching key audiences
- Threads, a new social network aimed at real-time public conversations, has seen impressive early adoption numbers
- Hollywood shuts down as the Screen Actors Guild joins writers on strike
Financial Services & Insurance - June 2023
- How to respond to recent bank failures
- Leveraging data and insights can be the key to new levels of agility and resilience in your organization
- Responding to crisis? Review more than your balance sheet to assess potential threats and identify areas of opportunity
- The rise of generative AI is fundamentally altering the way companies use software
Life Sciences - June 2023
- Takeda and ActivTrak share ways to engage your workforce with AI
- Create situational awareness for operational efficiency by leveraging large language models
- Skeptical about how AI will change Pharma? Not investing now will be a large risk for your business in the future
- Patent protection is ending for many of Pharma’s top-selling products
Healthcare Payers - June 2023
- Shift from reactive to proactive with behavioral science
- An estimated 15.5 million consumers could leave the Medicaid program over the next 18 months
- CVS Health is expecting up to $1 billion in revenue loss due to a decline in their Medicare Advantage (MA) star rating
- Satisfaction with commercial health plans worsened among Gen Y and Gen Z
Healthcare Providers - June 2023
- How three critical competencies can drive long-term success
- Kaiser’s intent to acquire Geisinger signals how better outcomes will be a joint effort across forward-thinking insurers and high-performing clinicians
- 6 hospitals and health plans are fast moving on the generative AI trend
- Lawmakers are putting pressure on Medicare Advantage health plans and Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs)