“What are your numbers?” was the first question from a young, affable entrepreneur to a slightly younger, non-American physician at the breakfast table one morning at the SEAD Conference. It’s a question definitely important in the context of innovative health care, but perhaps not the greeting the physician expected.
This brought to my mind the difficulty I have seen in communication between physicians and their MBA counterparts. In a medical setting, emphasizing patient numbers without emphasis on quality of care can be a disaster. Physicians, at least in many parts of the world, do not speak MBA jargon such as “lean processes,” “right skilling” and “scalable.”
This brought to my mind the difficulty I have seen in communication between physicians and their MBA counterparts. In a medical setting, emphasizing patient numbers without emphasis on quality of care can be a disaster. Physicians, at least in many parts of the world, do not speak MBA jargon such as “lean processes,” “right skilling” and “scalable.”
Flickr image credit: Pawel Loj
Dr. Philip McKinley, ophthalmologist with Duke Eye Center and SEAD mentor, was featured on the NextBillion.net blog this week. His piece discusses how to bridge the gap in communication between physicians and entrepreneurs when working together on social ventures.
NextBillion.net aims to connect business leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, policy makers, and academic interested in the connection between development and enterprise.
Read the full blog post here.
NextBillion.net aims to connect business leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, policy makers, and academic interested in the connection between development and enterprise.
Read the full blog post here.
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