Leadership Architecture
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The NHS Doesn’t Buy Technology
Here’s a curious thought. Imagine inventing a better parachute. You spend years proving it works. It’s safer, lighter and easier to use. Every independent test says it’s an improvement…but nobody buys it. Most people would conclude there must be something wrong with the parachute. What if there wasn’t? During my conversation with Vee Mapunde, Co-Director of…
Board Leadership, Change Management, Clinical Engineering, Clinical Governance, Clinical Innovation, Commercialisation, Decision Making, Executive Leadership, Governance, Health Systems, Health Technologies, Health Technology, Healthcare Adoption, Healthcare Commercialisation, Healthcare Ecosystem, Healthcare Innovation, Healthcare Investment, Healthcare Leadership, Healthcare Strategy, Healthcare Systems, Healthcare Transformation, HealthTech, HealthTech Founders, Implementation Science, Information Governance, Innovation Adoption, Innovation Ecosystem, leadership, Leadership Architecture, Medical Device Adoption, Medical Devices, Medical Technology, MedTech, MedTech Founders, NHS, NHS Innovation, NHS Procurement, NIHR, Organisational Change, Organisational Coherence, Organisational Complexity, Organisational Design, Organisational Leadership, Patient Care, Patient Outcomes, Precilium, Procurement, Scale-up, Scaling Companies, Series A, Series B, Series C, Signal Before Scale, Signal Before Scale Conversations, Systems Thinking, Technology Adoption, Translational Research, Vee Mapunde, Venture Capital, Workflow Design -
Why Great Executive Appointments Still Fail
Most executive search briefs are already obsolete by the time the successful candidate walks through the door. That sounds unlikely until you consider how long it takes to appoint a senior executive. Six to nine months can pass between defining the role and welcoming someone into it. In a scaling MedTech company, six months is…
ai, artificial-intelligence, Board Leadership, Board Strategy, business, digital health, Executive Leadership, Executive Search, Governance, HealthTech, leadership, Leadership Architecture, Leadership Strategy, Life Sciences, MedTech, Organisational Design, Organisational Growth, Private Equity, Scaling Companies, Succession Planning, technology, Venture Capital -
Why Most Scale-Stage Problems Are Misdiagnosed
The most important problems inside scale-stage MedTech organisations are often misdiagnosed. What appears to be a hiring issue, communication breakdown or operational slowdown may actually be a sign that organisational complexity has begun outpacing leadership architecture. Recent developments involving Ennov, xWave Technologies and ŌURA illustrate this particularly clearly. These are often presented as growth stories,…


