Category Archives: Insights

Danai Pathomvanich Dec 14, 2015 Big data is revolutionizing how medicine and disease treatment will be delivered in the next several decades. In a recent interview, Dr Eric Schadt, the founding director of the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at New York’s Mount Sinai Health System told McKinsey big data’s role in medicine…

Danai Pathomvanich Dec 4, 2015 Despite constant calls to rebalance China’s export-driven economy into more of a consumption-driven economy, China’s consumers will still power global growth in the next decade. In their recent best seller, “The one hour China book”, Jeffrey Towson and Jonathan Woetzel said China’s consumer story is awesome in spite of public…

Danai Pathomvanich Dec 4, 2015 Although China is often viewed as a country that copies western innovations, it’s future growth will be depend on how it optimizes its innovative strengths. A recent McKinsey Quarterly article “Gauging the strength of Chinese innovation” by Jeongmin Seong and Jonathan Woetzel outlines how China must be use innovation to…

Danai Pathomvanich Oct 19, 2015 A recent Altagamma Foundation joint study with McKinsey showed that three out of four luxury purchases, even if they still take place in stores, are influenced by what consumers see, do and hear online. Today, for many luxury product manufacturers, the question is no longer if and when they should…