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Markets, buyers, positioning, launch and the choices that create traction.
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Curbside Consults™ is a weekly executive briefing for life sciences leaders navigating growth, commercialization, enterprise AI and organizational performance.
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Each edition identifies an important shift, explains why it matters and translates it into a question or action leaders can use immediately. It is the kind of focused perspective you might seek in a trusted curbside conversation—concise, candid and grounded in experience.
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01The Signal
02Why It Matters
03The Curbside View
04The Move
05One Question
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The forces reshaping growth and transformation.
Business Development + Growth
Relevance, relationships, partnerships and the work that moves opportunity forward.
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Where AI creates value—and what leadership, workflows and adoption require.
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The operating discipline, leadership and alignment that turn intent into results.
Latest consult07
AI in Life Sciences
Your AI Pilot Worked. Now Comes the Hard Part.
A successful AI pilot proves something can work. Enterprise adoption requires organizational confidence, integrated workflows and measurable value at scale.
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Every consult. One continuing conversation.
The complete history of Curbside Consults™ by RISE, with the newest perspective first. Browse by topic, revisit earlier editions and share the questions most relevant to the work in front of you.
07 published consults
Consult 07September 28, 2026
AI in Life Sciences
Your AI Pilot Worked. Now Comes the Hard Part.
A successful AI pilot proves something can work. Enterprise adoption requires organizational confidence, integrated workflows and measurable value at scale.
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Consult 06September 21, 2026
Go-to-Market + Growth
Your Go-to-Market Strategy Isn’t Failing. The Path to Yes Changed.
The strategy may still be sound. But the people, pressures and process surrounding the decision are no longer the same.
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Consult 05September 17, 2026
Go-to-Market + Commercial Strategy
Launch Starts Before Launch
Approval determines when a product can launch. The decisions made before approval determine whether it is ready to win.
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Consult 04September 17, 2026
Go-to-Market + Commercial Strategy
The Engagement Illusion
More channels, content and activity do not automatically create more meaningful customer engagement.
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Consult 03September 16, 2026
Commercial Excellence + Organizational Performance
The Action Gap
The distance between what an organization knows it should do and what it can actually get people to do.
6 min readRead consult
Consult 02September 11, 2026
Enterprise AI Strategy + Transformation
AI Pilots Are Easy. Adoption Is the Hard Part.
The technology may be ready. The organization still has to change how decisions get made and work gets done.
6 min readRead consult
Consult 01September 10, 2026
The Curbside View
Why Curbside Consults™? Why now?
Complexity does not always require a longer report. Sometimes leaders need a clearer question, an experienced point of view and a practical next move.
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