Is Technological Innovations Aiding the Healthcare Business?

The healthcare industry has been massively benefiting from many innovations in modern medical technology in the past decade. Medical companies are focusing more on products that offer cheaper, faster, more efficient patient care. Aside from this most welcome development, they are likewise working with U.S. Food & Drug Administration regulators for complex reviewing and approval of novel medical devices. Here are some manifestations of these innovations.

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Electronic Aspirin

An innovative technology that’s now being thoroughly investigated is this patient-powered tool for blocking the sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG), a facial nerve bundle that’s the source of chronic headaches. It involves the implanting of a small nerve stimulating device on the side of the head normally affected by the headache. When a patient senses the beginning of a headache, they can place a handheld remote controller on the cheek nearest the implant to block the pain-causing neurotransmitters.

Robot Nurses

This sounds like stuff straight out of a science fiction novel, but beyond telemedicine, new medical robots can now patrol hospital hallways for routine rounds to check on patients and manage individual charts in lieu of actual nurses. The RP-VITA Remote Presence Robot produced jointly by iRobot Corp., and InTouch Health is the first of such. It has already received FDA clearance for hospital use.

Needle-Free Diabetes Care

Dealing with diabetes has been associated with the constant pain of having insulin shots, which if done recklessly can heighten the risk of infection. Also, while continuous glucose monitors and insulin pumps are prevalent options nowadays to semi-automate blood-sugar management among diabetes patients, they don’t completely remove the need for skin pricks and shots. The company Echo Therapeutics is developing technologies that would replace the poke with a patch, a transdermal biosensor that reads blood analytes through the skin without drawing blood.

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Steven Rindner has served in various companies across different industries with a strong background in residential and commercial real estate investment. He’s also into marathons, health care, and technology. 

The Basics of Product Management

Product management is one of the most specialized areas in any business development plan. Product managers are highly skilled and knowledgeable and oversee the development of the product in every stage of its cycle, from conception to launch. The required technical proficiency and expertise in this profession are encompassing. This field demands professional well-roundedness and familiarity with all the aspects of the creation, marketing, and sale of the product.

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This type of management works with various strategies ensuring the product’s success. The business equation always includes the consumer, and the product manager also takes note of that reality in the development of specific products. The decisions made within product management can affect everything and everyone, from the consumer to every employee on the production line.

Complex market cycles influence product development in many ways. The manager must understand completely the driving components shaping the future of any product introduced to the market. He or she must also have a clear grasp of the whole business environment, including both existing and nascent competitors. A thorough insight into the psychology of consumers and the movement of market forces can aid in the implementation of effective marketing plans and value propositions.

Product management involves many intersecting fields and concerns. The technology that guarantees the success of a line can only work if the people behind the management of the product have accounted for all the variables. In the end, the product does not exist inside a vacuum. Its inception is occasioned by a multitude of factors.

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Steven Rindner has served in various companies across different industries. He’s a real estate investor with experience in residential and commercial real estate. He’s also into marathons, architecture, and product design.

Business Trends That Are on the Rise In 2017

Industry reports indicate that more than three million managers are going to retire this year. This is going to bring in more millennials into the workforce, which is an important trend. Millennials now make up the largest slice of the industry pie and mentoring them for leadership positions is of prime importance for the future.

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Aside from the increasing number of young faces, there will be an increase in customer engagement for the rest of this year and 2018. As an increased number of businesses embrace digital-based models, the need to maintain good relationships with customers is more important than ever. Many companies are investing in personalized customer experience, investing in things such as instructional sessions for clients instead of just selling products.

With the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), collecting data from customers has likewise seen improvement. This allows for higher levels of service and stronger brand-customer relationships. Better data on customers allows companies to now make improved decisions from a wide variety of channels, offering more personalized and real-time involvement and service.

Crowdfunding, once relegated to artisan projects and specialty endeavors, is starting to play a bigger role in validating company products in the market in 2017. It has proven to be an especially useful method for engaging customers and gaining insight into products. Crowdfunding raised $34.4 billion for businesses in 2015.

Businesses are also seeing the importance of automating things, as evidenced by the inclusion of chatbots in company websites. Voice-based technologies like Siri or Google Assistant are being intertwined with smartphone services, and it won’t take long before even more immersive innovations like holographic computing become the norm and redefine market interaction.

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Steven Rindner has served in various companies across different industries. He’s a real estate investor with experience in residential and commercial real estate. He’s also into marathons, digital media, and product design

What Are the Elements of Business Development?

The definition of business development is as elusive to the definition as a catfish in a fast-moving stream. Business development, like many other things, has a lot of distinct aspects; it’s just that some people take these elements and call each of them “biz dev.” It can have something to do with sales, building relationships, establishing new markets, and streamlining existing processes. It’s just a question of what needs to be done in the present even if that means doing two or more at the same time.

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A new business, for example, needs to take stock of where it wants to go and what it wants to achieve. It needs to concentrate on the practical details of growing a successful business and allowing it to continue to expand and exceed its triumphs.

This means focusing on some basics: cost savings, capacity building, sales, networking and making strategic partnerships. It also calls for managing crucial elements: product development, supply chains, customer care, and even dealing with vendors.

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All of these should focus on being able to sustain long-term value for a company. This means being able to stay in chosen markets, reaching the right customers, delivering the expected and agreed upon product or service, making sure that necessary support systems and infrastructure are always ready, and, most importantly, ensuring that any opportunity taken advantage of will create even more opportunities over the long-term.

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Protecting Business Brands in the Digital Age

The company’s brand is its symbol, and as such, should be treated with utmost respect and care. A trusted brand makes a company. A brand that is tarnished, however, can spell doom for the business. It is imperative, especially in this digital age, that business owners learn how to protect their brand.

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It wouldn’t take a lot of effort for competitors or disappointed customers to damage the brand of the company, especially over the internet. Business owners should know just how significant domain names and internet addresses are. Choosing, ordering, and registering extensions at the Trademark Clearinghouse can go a long way in protecting the future trademark of a company.

Uniform Rapid Suspension, also known as URS, and Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution, or UDRP, may be filed when a brand is being threatened. Company owners should have people dedicated to learning about these complaints for when the worst happens. For example, when brand infringement happens, brand owners can file a URS on the people behind it, or on the domain itself. URS has the power to shut down a website. UDRPs are for more serious offenses, and often include court hearings.

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Steven Rindner is a real estate investor with experience in residential and commercial real estate. He’s also into digital media, entrepreneurship, and mental health.

Online Reviews: Their Essential Role in Business Development

Nowadays, business development strategies lean toward digital media as online channels have raised buyer engagement. Digital tools that have been overlooked by some businesses are online reviews and ratings.

An industry that has embraced online reviews is the tourism industry. According to studies, more than 90 percent of travelers base their decisions on reviews and other user-created contents.

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Other businesses can also benefit from utilizing online reviews.

For one, these reviews often offer constructive criticisms and suggestions. Comments made by customers provide either a validation of the quality of products and services or information on how the business can improve operations and business practices. During decision making processes, online reviews, whether positive or negative, offer great insights.

Online reviews can also be a free marketing tool as they can create brand awareness and expose the products and services to an even wider audience. There are even instances when online reviews are a more optimal advertisement option than traditional marketing channels.

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Online reviews also influence search engine results, with some experts even claiming that these are strong off-page SEO elements.

By managing online reviews effectively, any organization can create ideas and initiatives with long-term values, while establishing healthy relationships with customers, partners, and the market.

Steven Rindner is a real estate investor with experience in residential and commercial real estate. He’s also into marathons, entrepreneurship, and social media.