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Strategic Tales – have you got your copy?

  We’re still very excited here about our latest book Strategic Tales. This is our output from a series of interviews we conducted in 2012, with experts from a wide variety of fields related to our...

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Is Joined-up Care Achievable? with Nick Goodwin

By David Coleiro   For Strategic Tales we interviewed a diverse and interesting group of people. One of them was Nick Goodwin from The King’s Fund. Nick spoke to us about the current hot topic in the...

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Driving patient behaviour change: a case study from diabetes

By Paula Lashley   Towards the end of last year, we invited Judith Anders to speak to us about the research she was undertaking, as part of her PhD, on preventative foot health in people with diabetes....

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Healthcare’s imminent data revolution

By Harry Sharman   I have recently become fascinated by the rise in popularity of wearable activity monitors and their implications. Of course activity monitors are not new; the pedometer was invented...

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The Future is Bright. Could the Future be Nano? With Sonia Contera

For Strategic Tales we interviewed a diverse and interesting group of people. One of them was Dr Sonia Contera, Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Nanotechnology, and Lecturer in Biological...

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Pharma: how can you tell your story if you’re not in the script?

By David Coleiro   © Comic Relief 2013. Comic Relief is a UK charity founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Lenny Henry, in response to famine in Ethiopia. It uses...

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Strategic Tales: a very good read

One of our core values at Strategic North is to be pioneering. We aim to drive and stimulate debate and new ways of thinking, with our clients and in our industry in general. Strategic Tales is our...

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5 things I learned this week… 22nd April 2013

By Michael White   It is a new week which means it must be time for the latest edition of “5 things” and this time it is my turn. Here are five things that I read that made me think Wow!   1....

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What I learned about strategy from my fitness coach: part 1

By David Coleiro   At Strategic North we try to be a fit and healthy bunch, with members of the team partaking in various forms of exercise: triathlons, half marathons, martial arts, cross-fit and...

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Highlights from Thinking Digital 2013

By Nebula Norman   Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Thinking Digital 2013 conference in Newcastle, also known as “TED on the Tyne”. It was a great event, not just for those who are...

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5 things… 8 July 2013

By David Coleiro   I finally had time last week to really get stuck into my reading list of health and health policy trends, as well as lots of other interesting stuff. It could have been a “25 things...

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Musings on a Swiss train

By David Coleiro   Working within healthcare and pharma it will come as no surprise that we often travel to Switzerland, home to the headquarters of a number of major pharma companies such as Roche,...

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5 things… Summer 2013 roundup

It’s September, the children have gone back to school, our collective summer holidays are over, issue #2 of our newsletter Strategic Snippets is almost finished, and the Strategic North offices are...

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How to lose a million pounds

  Not a line we tend to use with our clients very often – I’m not sure it would be too good for business. But if I told you I was talking about lbs and not £s that might make more sense.Those who know...

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What’s holding you back?

“The pharmaceutical industry is broken!” How many times now have we heard this kind of doom-mongering? I can remember starting out on my career as a pharmaceutical representative in 1997 and, even...

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5 things… 14th March 2014

This week David shared 5 things he recently learnt with the team, and here they are: 1. Crowdsourcing for medical breakthroughs “Together, we can help save lives” CrowdMed People talk a lot about...

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5 things I learned this week … inspired by Dundee

5 Things courtesy of David I was doing some reading recently on new innovations in Alzheimer’s Disease and came across research being conducted in Dundee, the Scottish city where I grew up. This got me...

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Wearable Tech – vital signs for the future of healthcare?

          At Strategic North we like to run what we call “knowledge labs” – sessions where we can share and discuss a topic of interest over lunch.  This month it was wearable technology.   For...

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5 Things … April 2015

Here, David shares 5 Things that he has found interesting and inspiring this week               1. Is Google advancing detection and treatment of cancer cells with new patent? Google’s work to find new...

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3 Things … June 2015

Listening to customers is a fundamental part of what we do every day at Strategic North.  Here, David Coleiro widens the perspective, looking at viewpoints from healthcare and beyond, including Lessons...

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