Under Pressure

March, 2015    SMM-121 Under Pressure This short article summarises some of Brian’s research into the selection pressures that are acting on and shaping business models in life sciences. It introduces ideas about how various market changes...

Mission Critical

March, 2015    SMM-122 Mission Critical This feature article is an interesting by-product of Brian Smith’s research with industry leaders. It describes about how leaders mitigate the isolation they sometimes feel by using strategy...

Six Great Shifts

November, 2014    SMM-118 Six Great Shifts This feature article from PharmaFocus Asia pulls together all the complex changes in our industry environment to identify six evolutionary selection pressures that will determine whether business models...

Pharma’s Pigeons

January, 2015    SMM-117 Pharma’s Pigeons This short article describes how rare disease business models are an early sign of the evolutionary path of some pharma companies. It’s a good way to put this increasingly popular strategy into a...