This document discusses a cluster initiative in Barranquilla, Colombia that aimed to create shared value in the local healthcare industry. Through a 7-month process involving interviews and meetings, the initiative identified that chronic patients represented 75% of healthcare spending but were poorly served by the reactive, acute-care focused system. The initiative developed a strategic vision of shifting from reactive to continuous, patient-centered care. This included redefining roles, integrating patient data, and incentivizing new product development. Over subsequent years, the initiative held training events, partnered organizations, and helped one company grow significantly, indicating it successfully promoted both social and business goals through a collaborative approach.
TCI 2014 Cluster Initiatives as Tools for Shared Value Creation The Case of Healthcare in Barranquilla
1. Cluster Initiatives as Tools for Shared Value Creation
The Case of Healthcare in Barranquilla
Andrés Guimón
Parallel 1.1 Common problems, common markets and shared value
creation
11 November 2014
2. Cluster Initiatives as Tools for Shared Value
Creation
The Case of Healthcare in Barranquilla
TCI 2014, Monterrey
Andrés Guimón
3. 3
Shared Value:
“Addressing a Social Issue with a Business Model”
Source: Michael Porter
4. 4
Creating Shared Value:
“Addressing a Social Issue with a Business Model”
Reconveiving products
and markets
Redefining productivity in
the value chain
Improving the local
business environment
Source: Porter & Kramer
6. Healthcare Service
Providers
Distributors
Suppliers
Education and
research
Support
Institutions
Government
The Healthcare Cluster in Barranquilla
Over 800 companies
5% of total employment
Mostly service but
pharma also important
Main market: local and
northern Colombia
7. 7
CRI’s objective:
Help healthcare companies be more
competitive in the long run
Competitive Company
Strategies
Favorable Business
Environment
8. 8
Interviews with companies and
institutions
Industry and cluster analysis
Ways to compete in healthcare
Segment attractiveness
Advanced Buyer interviews
Benchmarking trips
Strategy meetings
Work groups with cluster agents
Expert interviews
The CRI Workplan:
Strategic Vision for
the Future
Launching of
Actions
Identifying Social and
Business Challenges
7 month process
1st meeting 2nd meeting 3rd meeting
9. 9
Interviews with companies and
institutions
Industry and cluster analysis
Ways to compete in healthcare
Segment attractiveness
Advanced Buyer interviews
Benchmarking trips
Strategy meetings
Work groups with cluster agents
Expert interviews
The CRI Workplan:
Strategic Vision for
the Future
Launching of
Actions
Identifying Social and
Business Challenges
7 month process
1st meeting 2nd meeting 3rd meeting
10. Key Challenge:
The main customer in the cluster was being poorly served
10
Chronic Patient
75% of total expenditure
Need: maintain good health and lifestyle
Delivery focused on
acute care and injury
11. 11
Interviews with companies and
institutions
Industry and cluster analysis
Ways to compete in healthcare
Segment attractiveness
Advanced Buyer interviews
Benchmarking trips
Strategy meetings
Work groups with cluster agents
Expert interviews
The CRI Workplan:
Strategic Vision for
the Future
Launching of
Actions
Identifying Social and
Business Challenges
7 month process
1st meeting 2nd meeting 3rd meeting
12. Redefining Productivity in the Value Chain
12
Treatment is the goal Health is the goal
Reactive Care Continuous Care
13. Redefining Productivity in the Value Chain
13
The Center is the doctor
Passive role of the patient
Focus on curing
Fragmented patient data
Traditional power structure
Expensive
The center is the patient (results)
Collaborative and proactive patient
Delivery across all care cycles
Integrated patient records
New entrants (software)
Minimises costs
14. 14
Interviews with companies and
institutions
Industry and cluster analysis
Ways to compete in healthcare
Segment attractiveness
Advanced Buyer interviews
Benchmarking trips
Strategy meetings
Work groups with cluster agents
Expert interviews
The CRI Workplan:
Strategic Vision for
the Future
Launching of
Actions
Identifying Social and
Business Challenges
7 month process
1st meeting 2nd meeting 3rd meeting
15. Action Lines from Workgroups
15
Connected Healthcare Conference
Strategic Meetings with Insurers
Courses on Patient Centered Care
Incentives for New Product Development
16. 16
How has this vision developed
over the years?
17. Strategic Vision 2010-2014
17
Help healthcare companies be more
competitive in the long run
Competitive Company
Strategies
Favourable Business
Environment
18. 18
50 employees
Clients: 75% insurers, 25% private users
Main market: Colombia. Focus is on Latin
America
Sales growth: x4 1st year, x2 rest of years
Spin off planned for 2015
19. 19
Help healthcare companies be more
competitive in the long run
Competitive Company
Strategies
Favourable Business
Environment
Strategic Vision 2010-2014
20. Specific Skill Building
20
2 events to disseminate best practices
130 participants
Specific courses in Patient Centered Care
35 participants
23. 23
Help healthcare companies be more
competitive in the long run
Competitive Company
Strategies
Favourable Business
Environment
Strategic Vision 2010-2014
26. 26
Thank You
andres.guimon@competitiveness.com
www.competitiveness.com
Editor's Notes
Thank you and good afternoon everyone.
I work with cluster initiatives and one of the subjects of the conference is shared value so I thought I would talk about how cluster initiatives, and more specifically, Competitive reinforcement initiatives, can be very useful tools for shared value creation.
Lets stop for one minute at the concept of shared value. What does it mean and imply?
There is a longer official definition but I thought this one was very clear and concise.
SV means addressing social needs with a business model. It implies that businesses should start thinking on putting both profits and positive social impact at the center of their value proposition.
Why do we care about shared value? Well, it has been identified by experts as one of the main areas for growth and innovation in the coming decades so we should care. There are many social needs to be resolved. If we can do this at a profit then we can scale the operation and ultimately resolve many social problems. This should be the aspiration of businesses and capitalism ultimately.
How do Porter and Kramer, creators of the concept, explain SV can be created?
They say there are three ways:
By redefining products and markets: businesses need to learn how to identify unmet socal needs, unserved or underserved customers and think more in terms of improving lives than in terms of creating products and services.
The second way is by redefining productivity in the value chain: businesses need to adapt their value chain activities and change them, use logistics, resources, suppliers and partners differently to address those social needs.
The third way is by improving the local business environment and developing strong local clusters that allow those businesses to be able to work and be competitive locally.
As you see, all three ways require companies to change, sometimes even to redefine their mission! It is a dynamic concept.
Ok so I said SV is desirable both for businesses and society.
Now, how can CRIs help create it?
I will dedicate the minutes left to answer this question, and I would like to put as an example a real CRI I was involved in the healthcare cluster of Barranquilla.
Here you can see a picture and some data of the cluster. Barranquilla is a city in northern colombia that lies by the carribbean sea. As you can see the healthcare cluster had a strong concentration of healthcare actores in the city. There were over 800 companies were we had laboratories, pharma companies, service providers, and support institutions.
The CRI was initiated by the chamber of commerce of Barranquilla, and what was its objective?
It was very concrete: help companies be more profitable in the long run. So really help companies earn more money and grow in the long term.
To be more competitive companies need two things:
Companies with the right competitive strategies (indivdual decisions): CRI works with the companies on this aspect of things
A favorable business environment were companies can perform those strategies. So it also involves firms, government, knowledge actors, etc. to make decisions regarding improvements in the environment for companies.
So in order to tackle these objective
To meet this objective the CRI provided an ORGANIZED 7 MONTH PROCESS through which healthcare companies and institutions in the cluster got to THINK CRITICALLY ABOUT THEIR BUSINESSES AND COMPETITIVE POSITION AND ANALIZE THE DIFFERENT STRATEGIC OPTIONS AVAILABLE TO BE MORE PROFITABLE GOING FORWARD.
As you can see the methodology we applied had three distinct phases:
What happened during the fist phase in Barranquilla? We carried out 40-50 interviews with cluster agents and studied the cluster and health industry in depth both at the local, nacional and internaiconal levels.
The main challenge that was identified was that
The main customer of the cluster was being poorly served.
Who was the main customer? the chronic patient (75% of costs).
How were they being served? With an offer that focused on acute care, on curing, instead of an offer that focused on keeping their condition at the best level possible and improving their lifestyles. So large hospitals, expensive doctors and machinary and equipment.
This problem was affecting everyone:
Ok, once this problem was identified and agreed upon, the CRI entered in a second phase where we helped the cluster define a strategic vision to address the social need and also to understand the value chain and key success factors they needed to develop to solve the problem.
In this phase, a lot of strategic analysis was done using common tools used in business, we segmented the business, we talked to advanved buyers, we did extensive benchmarking, strategic meeting with companies, etc.
What were the results?
The key here was to shift from treatment as the goal to health as the goal. The patient results should be at the center of the business activity.
There were new opportunities to add value especially in prevention and monitoring activities but for this changes needed to take place:
Patients needed to be educated to be more proactive sharing their data and using monitoring equipment
Doctors had to build multidsiciplinary teams with software companies to develop adequate monitoring and prevention systems
Data management emerged as a key activity in order to track patient health
Equipment providers needed to develop ready to use light equipment
Insurers needed to change their health plans incorporating specific programs and technology
Etc.
But in order to do this activities and partners in the value chain need to change. Productivity needs to be redefined.
Explain different in value chains
Ok so this vision, opportunity and new value chain were presented to the companies to promote the vision
In a third phase, companies and institutions, with our guide, got together in two workgroups that met 3 times each to:
- Identify key areas of improvement for the business environment
- Define a specific action plan to tacke those areas.
Here are some of the actions that came out from those workgroups. They planned:
A conference
Strategic meetings with insurers
Courses in connected health
An award for healthcare products
And others.
So this was what was done in 2010-2011. Now how has this vision evolved over the years?
I will divide the results in actions at the firm level and actions at the institutional level, more related to the business environment.
What can we see at the individual firm level?
Today, 3 years after lauch,
It has 50 employees (software, commercial, etc.)
75% of its customer base are insurers that have adopted their services and products in their health plans (they save them money)
Sales cuatripled the first year and have been doubling since.
They are planning a spin off were diabetrics becomes a company independent from Procaps.
As you can see, they hace comprehensive care,
- Education with this program (circulo de la vida);
Medical equipment: they bought a pantent and developed it further.
Software for patient and doctor use
Pills
Nutrition and cosmoceuticals
This is probably the clearer example in the region of a traditional pharma company making pills that develops this value chain to attend unmet social needs.
The objective was very concrete, help companies be more profitable in the long run. As you and this is something that depends:
On companies themselves, applying the right competitive strategy
But also on developing the favorable business environment (skills, infrastructure, etc.) for businesses to compete adequately
This is why the CRI not only involves local firms but also the government and all relevant support institutions in the region.
They implemented networking and skillbuilding activities:
Two networking events with leaders in connected health to talk to companies and institutions on how to start competing in this area.
Also universities have been updating their education offer. Here you have a new diploma that was created with a focus on connected health and that was already delivered to 35 medical institutions in the region.
A new award for product development in connected health was created. I selected here this article were you can see that diabetrics, the company I showed before has already won this award twice.
This is an important motivation factor for businesses in the region to innovate in this direction
In terms of reseach projects Barranquilla the city hall has been really working to position Barranquilla as a reference in diabetes and they have had some success. They have entered in mportant reseach projects cofunded by the international diabetes foundation wth other european universities. Two examples a re DemoJuan and Vida nueva, were fieldwork is being carried out in the city of Barranquilla.
This is also very good to get nice data on the current situation for diabetes in Barranquilla.
The objective was very concrete, help companies be more profitable in the long run. As you and this is something that depends:
On companies themselves, applying the right competitive strategy
But also on developing the favorable business environment (skills, infrastructure, etc.) for businesses to compete adequately
This is why the CRI not only involves local firms but also the government and all relevant support institutions in the region.
Ok so I said SV is desirable both for businesses and society.
Now, how can CRIs help create it?
So, as a conclusion, this is how CRIs can help create shared value:
Identifying needs
Understanding value chains and key factors for success
Promoting change
Empowering firms and institutions for that change.