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Today, IT has become integral to the entire medical device
industry, including core offerings. For instance, we recently
began a partnership with Apple to pair our medical device
expertise with the capabilities of the Apple Watch.

Collaborators Wanted

Now the skillsets people on my team need are
collaboration and problem-solving. You can
teach any hard skills to anybody, but those
soft skills are more instinctive, such as
recognizing a challenge and understanding
how to orchestrate the organization's
capabilities to solve a problem. Or going to
your partners proactively with an opportunity.
We need people who are not only experts in
technology but fairly well versed, if not
experts, in our business as well. We are also
looking for people with a deep understanding
of our partners' capabilities. From here on out,
success will require a combination of intimacy
with those processes and intimacy with the
capabilities in our portfolio.
Looking ahead, what excites me most is the
fairness of this whole thing. Now everybody
has access to the same set of technologies, or
can get access to the same technologies. In a
sense, the playing field is increasingly level.
Being excited about a lack of barriers to entry
might sound like a strange thing for a business
person to say, but as a human being, it's
tremendously exciting. It's precisely this kind
of a wide and deep experience that leads to
disruptive advances. From the cloud to Big
Data to the Internet of Things, there isn't a
trend out there that wouldn't ultimately have
an important impact on the medical device
industry.

When you consider that the phone in my
pocket has more processing power than what
we were sending up with our spaceships until
relatively recently, the pace of change has
been mind-boggling, and I'm thrilled to be in a
position to watch it happen.
All in all, it's an exciting time to be in a
wonderful industry. I fell into it quite by
accident 20 years ago, and I still feel blessed to
be here. I'm one of those fortunate people who
jump out of bed in the morning and can't wait
to get to work. I know for a fact that
everything I do every day has a direct impact
on improving somebody's quality of life. I don't
know what could be better.

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