Author: Alex Brown

Recon takes an analytical look behind select developments in healthcare

When is a patient not a patient? More often than you think

Alex Brown May 6, 2016

I have been conducting an informal test for the past year and a half. And while it has not been a full statistically-significant clinical trial with test and control groups, and “double blind” testing methods, the results have been striking… The way this test works is that when I meet someone new or reconnect with someone I have not seen in a long time, I ask them to describe themselves and then listen carefully to the answer. Some clear patterns emerge: It’s most common for people, and particularly my American

Context is King – When to use an Agile corporate strategy?

Alex Brown April 1, 2016

“Agile corporate strategy” (as defined in a previous post) is already the established the weapon of choice for small, early-stage innovators trying to re-invent their marketplace, where the product is the company and uncertainty is the hallmark new emerging markets. Startups like agile strategies – often referred to a “Lean Startup” – because they effectively counter the scale advantage of incumbent competitors without requiring massive initial investment. But contrary to the conventional wisdom that firms must abandon agility as they get larger and more complex, in the right market context

Sustainable Agility – Activity Systems for the Agile Competitor

Alex Brown April 1, 2016

The dirty little secret of the booming agile training and coaching industry is that most Agile implementations ultimately fail, meaning that the companies revert back to their previous working methods. Even ones that experience dramatic early success and drive their entire industry to implement similar approaches typically lose momentum after several years or with a change in leadership. It is telling that, of the first wave of companies to implement Scrum in the mid 1990’s, not one is still using the framework today. In light of this, it is tempting

Enterprise Agility as Corporate Strategy

Alex Brown April 1, 2016

In a previous post, I explored Maxwell Health as an example of agile product development strategy in healthcare. For small single-product companies the product strategy is the corporate strategy, but agile principles can yield profound benefits for larger multi-product business units and even entire firms. This blog focuses on Agile Corporate Strategy, and specifically how a subset of companies in the right strategic context could greatly benefit from institutionalizing agility across the entire enterprise. Agile corporate strategy “Agility” is a term that gets thrown around liberally, often in a very

Maxwell Health and Agile Healthcare Strategy

Alex Brown December 11, 2015

Maxwell Health LLC is a rapidly growing company that offers a platform to make it easy and intuitive for employees to manage their employer-sponsored benefits. It is at the intersection of several major macro trends currently transforming the Healthcare industry: As a marketplace for employee benefits, it is near the center of a shifting US regulatory landscape for individual and small group insurance exchanges As a “Software as a Service” (SaaS) platform it is a poster child for the growing use of clever software to deliver intuitive, efficient and quality

Author: Alex Brown

Recon takes an analytical look behind select developments in healthcare

When is a patient not a patient? More often than you think

Context is King – When to use an Agile corporate strategy?

Sustainable Agility – Activity Systems for the Agile Competitor

Enterprise Agility as Corporate Strategy

Maxwell Health and Agile Healthcare Strategy

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