Apex Strategies

Creating a consumer-focused healthcare market

We have a breakthrough opportunity to create a consumer-focused healthcare market, in the US and around the world. This will lower costs and speed the flow of innovation. It is already happening. Here is how it works.

Four things that must happen for successful health data sharing

The last 20 years of work and billions of dollars spent on health data “interoperability” have failed to give us the benefits of real sharing: choice of health care providers, better continuity of care, lower cost, lower…

The End of Innovation, for Humans

Today’s innovations don’t have nearly the impact of innovations from 100 years ago. They aren’t changing our way of life and work, just making small improvements. A decline in the effectiveness of innovation is clearly driving stagnation in our economic numbers — a…

Why crypto-coins have value

Crypto-coins are hot. They are liquid, international, unregulated, and they sometimes rise rapidly in value. They are providing a new source of financing for software projects. What gives value to these apparently worthless number strings?

Hyperscaling Swap Meet Report

The attendees reported being energized by the topic. and we have some next steps in our quest to innovate at industry scale. However, it was too sparsely attended to be called a success, yet.

CONCLUSIONS

• We don’t have enough…

Humans and Bots — from Jeremy Josse

Technology and human collaboration — a viable business future proven by a simple chess puzzle

• A unique chess puzzle developed by the brilliant physicist Roger Penrose and his grand master brother provides insights into the difference between…

How SAFe agile kills innovation

SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) is popular among big companies that aren’t naturally tech companies. Basically, it is a big compilation of everything that scrum organizations do to manage large projects, with detailed instructions so that most hidebound team members can…

For Innovation at Scale, stop moping about “culture”

As “digital” sweeps through the land, a lot of big companies have decided they need to become more innovative, and they have established corporate innovation departments to help them along. These groups typically try to bring some startup…

Move over Toyota. Software is leading the Lean world

Forty years ago, Toyota started eating its way through the auto industry with new tactics that we called “lean manufacturing”. Compared with the older American auto makers, they had higher quality, lower costs, and faster delivery of new…