Bryan O’Rourke shares his thoughts on technology, business, and consumer trends in health, fitness and more.
The recent announcement that ITunes has reconfigured its pricing model and made 10 Million songs DRM Free continues to evidence the decline in content pricing. The implications are significant for an array of industries. Learn more here:
The revolution at its core is being driven, among other dynamics, by technologies. Here is yet another example of how education and content creation are being revolutionized by the application of new technologies. This time by APPLE:
Health care is likely one of the most complex industries, incredibly burdened by legacy constraints. The increasing breakdown of the system is obvious. To provide better care to more people at a more affordable cost must entail adopting new models. There is a surge of demand for care and an increasingly shrinking supply of available quality care. Meet the CEO of American Well, one of several new solutions that are addressing the opportunity technology and new business models provide today. A new paradigm of health care reflects adoption of the long tail concept and its potential is tremendous.
What do you think about online health care ? Contact me, Bryan O'Rourke, and let me know what you think.
The notion of exceptional achievement as being the product of individual pursuit should be closely examined. Institutions and organizations must reflect on how human potential can be "capitalized" to create the opportunity for real innovation. Without time, the right atmosphere and the ability to fail potential is often lost. Cultural legacy and the 10 thousand hour rule are just a few of the concepts Gladwell addresses in his new book Outliers - The Story of Success. From Mozart to Picasso to Fleetwood Mac, Malcolm's argument that exceptional outcomes are a product of the environment is compelling. In his theories lie many of the solutions to attaining great achievement for industries and people. Collaboration, openness and patience are the stuff of how we can embrace the potential available today to all via the revolution. See his brief talk at a recent conference to learn more.
After visiting Gladwell's book Outliers again in advance of his keynote at IHRSA in 2010, these further points came to mind.
Gladwell’s book Outliers confronts the American myth of the self-made person. The book is a story about the context in which success takes place: family, culture, friendship, childhood, accidents of birth, history and geography. "It's not enough to ask what successful people are like," Gladwell writes. "It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't."
Outliers asserts that genius isn't the most important thing - environment is as essential. Gladwell uses the unusual story of Christopher Langan, who despite an IQ of 195, worked on a horse farm in rural Missouri. Why did he not become a nuclear rocket surgeon? Langan's life had little to help him capitalize on his exceptional gifts. "He had to make his way alone," Gladwell writes, "and no one — not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses — ever makes it alone."
One could interpret Outliers in a number of ways. In the end its points is to make geniuses look a little less special and the rest of us a bit more so. Outliers wasn't intended as autobiography, Gladwell says. "But you could read it as an extended apology for my success.”
In the US and across the globe, an aging population is becoming increasingly obese and sick This time bomb of illness is running head on into a "health care" system designed to "fix" it: all at an unaffordable and unsustainable cost. As with other industries, a new paradigm is emerging to better allocate resources with the outcome of positively impacting people's health. The "long tail" of prevention is emerging. New web 2.0 solutions and other methods enabling business model redesign for other industries can be adopted to meet the challenge of helping people become healthier affordably. See Steve Case discuss Revolution Health and learn more.
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