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How will Value Based Purchasing affect your business?

Friday, June 5th, 2015

Your firm supplies healthcare facilities of all sorts. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provisions are phased and each year brings different impacts to your business. How do you stay current? How do you forecast and deal with the changes? Where do you find the strategic intelligence needed?

Your approach will vary depending on your company’s own agility, your ability to integrate outside expertise and the probably dollar value of the changes. We provide the outside expertise to forecast and navigate the changes.

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Tags: Affordable Care Act, expertise areas, Healthcare, Strategy Experts
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ORC Experts to drive strategy decisions

Monday, April 27th, 2015

Innovate via Expert Knowledge

Boost your knowledge of the marketplace, competitors and trends. For each stage of the product development process, from ideation to
go-to-market, ORC Experts can help you define new product concepts, overcome technical challenges and commercialize winning products and processes. Through our Integrated Intelligence framework, we deliver a robust suite of solutions to support your innovation needs, including:

Best Practices & Benchmarking

Learn directly from other organizations inside and outside their own markets. Understand their core processes to support differentiation or foster learning – such as supply chain, operations, manufacturing, and sales/ customer acquisition.

Landscape, Stakeholder & Technology Mapping

Understand a new market from the perspectives of the key participants who engage in the marketplace, such as distributors, suppliers, retailers, consumers/patients, regulatory bodies and related agencies.

Expert & Lead User Research

Leveraging ORC’s Expert Network of over 13,000 rigorously screened subject matter experts to identify new promising technologies, new applications for existing technologies, and quickly get you up to speed of new markets and technologies.

Business Model Identification and Evaluation

Identify how your business model is truly performing through key indicators and evaluate innovative opportunities to your business model to build a competitive advantage.

We integrate expert perspectives with state of the art market research methodology – you use our insight to drive your business.

Tags: Adjacent Markets, Expert Forum, expertise areas, independent review, Lead User forum, Qualifying Experts
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Assessing Risk

Thursday, October 9th, 2014

What’s the Risk?

Risk –how can you assess business risk on the global level? The fear is no longer about developing-world governments nationalizing your overseas business. Instead, the problems are breach of contract, restrictions on the transfer and convertibility of profits, civil disturbance, government failure to honor guarantees, and regulatory restrictions from the countries where firms have invested heavily (Harvard Business Review 2010).

You need an unbiased viewpoint, you need a specialist, and you need our expert. She is well versed in government relations, emerging market political risk across a wide variety of industries. She also has her propers in industry analysis in the oil, gas and mining fields. She received her doctorate in political science from MIT and is the founder and principal of a governance solutions company where she aids clients in political risk and mitigation strategies. (more…)

Tags: expertise areas, Qualifying Experts, Risk Expertise
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Mastering the ELearning Curve

Monday, September 8th, 2014

E-Learning is an industry that continues to trend upward. I have a personal interest in e-learning for K-12 due to our family’s choices and situation. In the Twin Cities alone, we have an incredible variety of online-only elementary and high schools, of online/brick and mortar combination schools (some for at-risk students), and of brick and mortar schools that offer occasional online courses or course support (I found some 30 at the Minnesota Department of Education website. And the rest of the iceberg includes online colleges, online courses with brick and mortar colleges, and businesses using the Internet for employee development.

It is vital for all industries to understand this rapidly changing area. Whether you are in Human Resources or in product development – you need to talk to an expert in this area. One outstanding expert (more…)

Tags: E-Learning, Education, expertise areas, Human Resources
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E coli, Salmonella, Listeria, oh my

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

Bon appetit! While summer weather is perfect to indulge in a variety of food, it also increases the likelihood of contamination in your food. In this rather frightening part of the science universe – our expert has vast expertise in food microbiology, microbial food safety, control of pathogens and spoilage organisms in food.

Expert has applied his research and training expertise in microbiology and food science to the control of human enteric pathogens and psychotropic spoilage organisms in food. His research continues to the application of irradiation, high pressure or natural antimicrobials to inactivate food borne pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms, and enhances microbial safety and shelf-life of food products. In addition, he has conducted several challenge studies to evaluate the effects of antimicrobials on survival and growth of pathogens in foods. With his PhD in food science and technology and training in food borne illness in consumers, he speaks fluently on all aspects of the food science industry. He has published peer-reviewed scientific papers on control of food borne pathogens like salmonella, listeria monocytogenes, clostridium perfringens, and E coli.

How can you utilize the expert? (more…)

Tags: E Coli, Expert Witness, expertise areas, Food Toxicology
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Litigating Stinks

Wednesday, March 19th, 2014

Now look here – I am not posting about shady litigation proceedings – I’m talking litigating about bad odors and the types of experts you need.

I have seen a number of cases lately, (more…)

Tags: Ambient Air Polution, Chemical Odors, Expert Witness, expertise areas
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Oh, the weather outside is frightful

Monday, December 16th, 2013

While I was first writing this, Minnesota was having the first real snow of the season (by real, I mean we were getting some 7 inches in the middle of the state, and up north, they were piling up some two feet) before the temperatures decided to go sub-zero on us. So, being the diligent worker I am, my thoughts turned to experts and how meteorologists are used as experts when folks sue each other?

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Tags: Expert Witness, expertise areas, Meteorology
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The Varieties of Product Experience

Thursday, August 29th, 2013

(with apologies to William James)

William James, the famous psychologist and philosopher, wrote an amazing book at the beginning of the last century – The Varieties of Religious Experience, in which he studied human nature as systematically and scientifically as he could and the book has endured as a critical examination of the ways humans believe. Nowadays, we seem to be a rather “product focused” group of folks (not to say we don’t have our religious experiences as well, but it is outside the scope of this blog to go there). Our focus on, and trust of, manufactured goods for transportation, entertainment, livelihood, and sometimes survival, brings with it the apparatus to try to sort out the conflicting interests and dangers inherent in product design, manufacture, and use—to sort out the “varieties of product experience.” Part of this apparatus is product liability law. (more…)

Tags: Engineering, Expert Witness, expertise areas, Product Liability
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Medical Device Regs Specs and Solders

Thursday, August 1st, 2013

The medical device industry is continually under regulatory scrutiny. Then things go wrong, massive product liability suits ensue – plus, most companies do want to heal people and help folks live healthier lives. Multinational medical device firms have an even greater regulatory burden. AND an important piece of the quality of these devices is how they stick together (you don’t want your pacemaker to separate from its leads, now do you?). (more…)

Tags: expertise areas, Qualifying Experts, Solder Process
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What would you want to ask the experts?

Friday, July 12th, 2013

When I hear the phrase “expert survey” I flash on two things simultaneously – Richard Dawson on “Family Feud” shouting out – “Survey says!” and the perennial ad trope – “9 out of 10 experts say.” Expert Survey means many things to many people and can work in a variety of ways (all of which Intota supports).

A preeminent method for surveying experts in order to forecast trends, needs, and technologies is the Delphi Method which was developed by the Rand Corporation back in the late 50’s. It is a structured, iterative interview technique of a preselected group of appropriate experts and is very effective in helping understand those types which are too fuzzy for standard surveys of populations. (more…)

Tags: Adjacent Markets, Expert Forum, expertise areas, independent review
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