Author Archives: Knowledge Hub

Healthcare M&A Strategic Foundations for Sustainable Value Creation

| 6 May 2024

The healthcare sector’s consolidation trajectory demands sophisticated strategic frameworks that transcend traditional acquisition models. Recent analysis of cross-border healthcare transactions reveals a critical gap between synergy realisation and synergy capture, where theoretical benefits outpace practical implementation by margins exceeding 40 per cent. Strategic Foundation Architecture Healthcare mergers require distinctive approaches compared to conventional corporate acquisitions. […]

The World Bank’s PPP Paradox in Emerging Economies

| 6 May 2024

Bottom Line Up Front: The World Bank’s public-private partnership strategy reveals a fundamental tension—whilst these frameworks promise accelerated infrastructure delivery, their success hinges on institutional maturity that often takes decades to develop. The global infrastructure financing gap stands at $15 trillion through 2040, according to McKinsey Global Institute analysis. Yet the World Bank’s approach to […]

The IMF’s Impact on Shaping Privatisation in Developing and Transition Economies

| 6 May 2024

The International Monetary Fund champions privatisation as fiscal salvation whilst constraining sovereign economic autonomy. This fundamental tension illuminates how multilateral institutions reshape developing economies through structural conditionalities that promise macroeconomic stability at the expense of state asset control. The paradox intensifies when examining empirical outcomes. Countries accepting IMF privatisation frameworks experience immediate revenue generation through […]

Transforming Healthcare Quality From Measurement to Value Creation

| 6 May 2024

Healthcare systems worldwide face unprecedented pressure to show measurable quality outcomes while managing escalating costs and resource constraints. Traditional quality measurement approaches often focus on isolated metrics rather than comprehensive transformation frameworks that drive sustainable improvement across entire care delivery systems. The transformation imperative emerges from a fundamental shift toward value-based care models where quality […]

Revenue Cycle Management as the Clinical Excellence Engine

| 6 May 2024

Florence Nightingale’s 1852 insights about categorising patients by disease and examining treatment costs proved prescient. She understood that optimal care delivery required understanding of both clinical outcomes and associated expenses—a principle that took healthcare providers another century and a half to embrace. Today’s healthcare systems face unprecedented pressure to deliver superior clinical outcomes while managing […]

Making Public Sector Corporatisation Work

| 6 May 2024

Governments worldwide face an enduring challenge: delivering efficient public services while maintaining democratic accountability. Traditional public sector management often suffers from political interference, bureaucratic inefficiency, and weak financial controls. Yet full privatisation frequently triggers public backlash, particularly in healthcare, education, and essential services. Corporatisation emerges as a middle path—creating government-owned entities managed like private businesses. […]

Healthcare AI Centres Drive Population Health Transformation

| 6 May 2024

Healthcare systems worldwide are experiencing unprecedented pressure to deliver superior patient outcomes while managing escalating costs. According to our research, healthcare organisations implementing comprehensive AI strategies achieve 15-20 per cent operational efficiency gains within two years of deployment. The strategic solution lies in establishing dedicated Centres of Excellence within Ministries and Departments of Health, focused […]

Why Healthcare ROI Analysis Reveals Hidden Business Truths

| 25 December 2019

You’ve got a great idea for a new product that will increase revenue or a new system that will cut the company’s costs. But how can you be sure that it’s a worthwhile investment? Any time you propose a capital expenditure, you can be sure senior leaders will want to know what the return on investment (ROI) is.

Three Essential Tools for Modern Business Valuation

| 25 December 2019

Behind every major resource-allocation decision a company makes lies some calculation of what that move is worth. Whether the decision is to launch a new product, enter a strategic partnership, invest in R&D, or build a new facility, how a company estimates value is a critical determinant of how it allocates resources. And the allocation of resources, in turn, is a key driver of a company’s overall performance.

How Event-Based Milestones Transform Venture Success

| 24 December 2019

Starting a new business is essentially an experiment. Implicit in the experiment are a number of hypotheses (commonly called assumptions) that can be tested only by experience. The entrepreneur launches the enterprise and works to establish it while simultaneously validating or invalidating the assumptions.

Why Declining Business Interest Signals Education Success

| 24 December 2019

How’s this for an entrepreneurship-education outcome: The proportion of high school students saying they’d like to start a business declined over the course of a summer program, according to research from New York University.

Why Global Supply Networks Create More Value Than Silicon Valley Startups

| 24 December 2019

Until a few years ago Steve Cronce’s Raphael Industries did $1 million dollars a year of specialized industrial painting for customers within driving distance of their plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. One of them happened to be GE Healthcare, which sent Raphael “dead” X-Ray tube parts for re-coating and re-commissioning.

Why Corporate Ventures Succeed When Traditional Growth Fails

| 24 December 2019

As the traditional avenues of corporate growth become less attractive, many companies find the appeal of new venture strategies harder to resist. Though difficult to implement and often slow to repay investment, these strategies do offer the promise of facilitating entry into new business areas with innovative, usually technology-based products. And for large companies with many layers of management and detailed control systems, ventures offer the special promise of recapturing some vital spark of entrepreneurial energy.

Private Equity Investment Architecture for Strategic Value Creation

| 13 November 2019

The term ‘private equity’ (“PE”) is a generic expression for investments in equity securities in companies which are not listed on any public stock exchange. Generally in the UK this means shares in limited companies, although there are exceptions (such as so-called ‘vanity pics’, being public limited companies which are not listed on any investment exchange, but maintain plc status in order that the term ‘plc’ may be used in the corporate name.

Public Private Partnership – the UK Experience

| 13 November 2019

The UK government pioneered the use of competitive tendering of public services in the 1980s, when Margaret Thatcher was prime minister. In the decades since, as outsourcing has expanded and other governments around the world have sought to copy some of its practices, the UK should have become better at negotiating and managing such contracts.

NHS 5 year forward view and financial shortfall

| 13 November 2019

The NHS five year forward view, published in October 2014 set out a view for the future to ensure sustainability of healthcare services and economic prosperity with strong emphasis for the following:
a.     Radical upgrade in activist prevention and public health
b.     Removal of barriers between family doctors and physicians, between physical and mental health and between health and social care with significant localised or community-based care delivery supported by specialised centres
c.     Shared budgets and combining health and social care