It's not often that you get a blog post that talks to innovation and uses references to both Homer Simpson and beer to drive home its point. Today's award goes to the Innovate on Purpose blog for -- well -- bringing us this innovation in writing.
The thrust of the article is that when aspects around the product become the focus - rather than innovations in the product itself -- you know you've reached the point of diminsihing returns. This kind of hits home in the pharma industry in the past decades where maybe as much effort was put in evergreening through reformulation, new delievery systems and maybe indication extension as was put in developing novel meds in many instances. Maybe that's why pharma return on R&D has been so dismal the past decade (if not longer).
Time to get back to real innovation with the actual PRODUCT -- for new meds, new mechanisms of action that effectively address unmet needs and perform BETTER than what we have already. BTW - I think we're starting to move in that direction again.
Posted by Bruce Lehr May 17th 2013.

