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Digital innovation strategy for Roche

We developed a digital health strategy and identified multiple growth opportunities based on changing patient needs and the rise of new technologies.

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Challenge

Scoping digital opportunities.

F. Hoffmann LA Roche is a multinational life-sciences company that operates worldwide under two divisions: pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. Compared to the pharmaceutical sector, the business value of diagnostics has been historically lower. Change is in the air: as new technologies are shifting the focus of healthcare from cure to care, diagnostics is the first field to benefit from this transformation.

In this scenario, Roche invited Board of Innovation to Basel to co-create a digital strategy and design and execute an innovation vision and strategy to discover new digital health offerings for Roche, with the aim to do what patients need next!

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Board of innovation helped us to design a novel innovation strategy and translate it into a structured process. Together we were able to build a tailored process that was applicable to our specific industry.

Richard Batrla-Utermann, medical director, Roche Diagnostics

Solution

Human-centered
innovation strategy.

Board of Innovation brought together different leaders to support the creation of a digital strategy for Roche. Together we identified new growth areas, fueled by market trends and technologies.

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Impact

A coordinated strategic
framework for innovation
in healthcare.

Board of Innovation had impact by:

  1. Creating a future-oriented digital strategy, co-created with different leaders in the organization.
  2. Mapping out the digital health landscape segmented by patient needs and technologies.
  3. A toolbox for innovation geared at the creation of new patient-centric solutions.

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Roche's Innovation Journey

Check out how Roche is innovating with these ongoing projects, spanning over the entire innovation journey.

Roche's Innovation Journey

Board of Innovation is working with Roche across their innovation journey, focused on transforming healthcare ecosystems with an outside-in approach.

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Movement Health 2030

A global mission and collaborative platform aimed at solving major health challenges, through local and global partnerships.

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Entrepreneurship Program

Harnessing the innovation appetite and transforming it to viable business cases through several 3-month capability programs.

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Caring Program

Accelerating the innovation process with a shared knowledge platform and a solid innovation framework, aimed at solving the unmet patient needs.
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