BD involves developing growth opportunities and long-term value through customers, markets, and relationships. Unlike sales which focuses on exchanging commodities for money, BD explores partnership opportunities to enable continued growth. For startups, BD involves 20% identifying new opportunities and 80% driving sales through executing a plan that assesses the market, develops strategies, finds and approaches leads, recognizes their needs, and closes deals by delivering solutions and following up.
The document discusses scaling medicine through design and accelerating data to improve quality and lower costs. It suggests that engineers and designers are essential to hack business models and define experiments to test assumptions. Some areas proposed to focus on include incentives, health reform, and the intersection of high tech and med tech. The document outlines several tools that can be used to map and hack healthcare business models, including a business model canvas, care delivery value chain, and health model canvas. It provides the MIT example of Ginger.io and encourages attendees to "please hack healthcare."
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