Frost & Sullivan's Growth Strategies & Competitive Intelligence in the Healthcare Industry Conference

We survived the earthquake.

I was in the shower, and, never having been through an earthquake in California, I wasn't aware that people generally don't feel earthquakes when they're in the tub or shower... learn something new every day, I reckon.

The Frost & Sullivan Growth Strategies & Competitive Intelligence in the Healthcare Industry Conference seemed well-attended and overall fairly informative for most attendees in spite of getting my own 45-minute/35-slide presentation cut down to 30 minutes and 35 slides... but, then, I'm the eternal cynic, right? For those of you interested, feel free to browse through my slides on Competitive Intelligence Applications on Corporate Intranets. I actually presented in partnership with intranet software engineering company Fuse Technologies, Inc. of Madison Wisconsin; FYI, I sit on the FuseTec board of directors. Brad Woods, FuseTec's President, was there with me and our focus was on the use of Intranets in Healthcare Businesses.

There were a few noteworthy highlights, including:

• Jim Hall (SRI Consulting) -- "Growth in Healthcare Markets"
• David Kilmetz (Frost & Sullivan) -- "Competitive Considerations in Growth Markets"
• Jude Paganelli (Soma Research) -- "Alliance-Based Growth Opportunities"
• YuQuan Wang (Cons Bio-Tech) -- "Global Growth/Regional Opportunities"
• Sue Ramspacher (IMS Health) -- "Dissecting your Competitor"
• David Magnani (Teltech) -- "Winning KM Strategies for R&D and New Product Development"
• Andrew Albright (Purdue Pharma) -- "Time to Market & Product Development"

So, next time around, if you're in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare services, or medical devices business, you'd do well to attend next year's event.