We recently came across this elegantly written article (see link below) highlighting the productivity challenge that many organisations are facing. Needless to say this also applies to the Life Science & Healthcare sector. In the Life Science industry, innovation, productivity, and ROI are on top of the agenda of many executives. In Healthcare, workforce engagement and patient empowerment are prevailing themes.

The ability to innovate and/or to transform will determine relevance of many organisations in our fast changing Industry 4.0 world. In some earlier posts I have been focussing on the key differentiating impact that high performing teams can have on business results, versus groups of individuals, committee’s, or any gathering of people that likes to call themselves a team in the absence of any objective business measure that indicates so.

The ability to innovate and/or to transform will determine relevance of many organisations in our fast changing Industry 4.0 world. In some earlier posts I have been focussing on the key differentiating impact that high performing teams can have on business results, versus groups of individuals, committee’s, or any gathering of people that likes to call themselves a team in the absence of any objective business measure that indicates so.

It was a pleasure presenting at the 18th Conference on Pharma Project and Portfolio Management in London earlier this week.  For Graphene.Works, Kurt Hertogs zoomed in on the significant differentiated impact, added value ànd a (potentially) up to 120% higher ROI that ‘High Performing Teams’ can have over ‘Regular Teams’.

Kurt Hertogs, co-founder of Graphene.Works, will present at, and participate in a paneldiscussion at the 6th Innovation For Health Conference in Rotterdam.

Kurt Hertogs, Co-founder of Graphene.Works will present a keynote lecture on “Creating Value at the Interface of Biology & Technology” at the 18th Annual Strategic Project & Portfolio Management for Pharma in London next week.

Thank you all for a great 2018!

The 1st BioBusiness Winter Retreat in Belgium (Ghent) was bringing together a group of young and ambitious Life Science professionals. They attended this three day meeting to interact with several experienced professionals covering several domains that are key to succes in this fast changing sector.

Lionel Messi, nor Christiano Ronaldo did ever win the FIFA World Cup Football with either the teams of Argentina or Portugal. However, zooming in on their respective club teams Barcelona (Messi) or Real Madrid (Ronaldo), the picture was more complete, more balanced, different leadership styles, different composition of team players.. and clearly more performant. Both teams were winners of the UEFA Champions League several times. Recently Ronaldo joined Juventus in Italy.

Very often we are asked questions on our brand name “Graphene”. What does it mean? Why does it articulate our aspiration and unambiguous choice of working with talented individuals, or the teams and organisations they are part of? Why does it capture so well our mission to have all of them, individuals, teams ànd organisations, experiencing how they can effectively shape their own future?