Predictable Winners: How to Improve the Odds of Success in Medtech Innovation
Launching a new medical technology is always a gamble, but according to Ilya Trakhtenberg and Stuart Jackson of L.E.K. Consulting, a systematic, step-by-step approach to innovation can manage risk and unlock the full potential of breakthrough innovation for organizations—far surpassing industry benchmarks.
Most innovations fail. And most companies struggle with innovation. Case in point: Nearly all the growth in the S&P 500 (prior to 2025 YTD) has been driven by just seven companies, the so-called “Magnificent Seven”—Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Tesla. Between 2013 and 2019, they delivered 19% compound returns. The other 493 companies in the index delivered just 2% in that time period. And medtech is no different: the top five market cap growers accounted for 60% of all of the industry’s market cap growth from 2015 to 2024, and a full 80% of it since 2019. Studies show that of the thousands of product launches across industries each year, 70-90% fail.
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Launching a new medical technology is always a gamble, but according to Ilya Trakhtenberg and Stuart Jackson of L.E.K. Consulting, a systematic, step-by-step approach to innovation can manage risk and unlock the full potential of breakthrough innovation for organizations—far surpassing industry benchmarks.
Most innovations fail. And most companies struggle with innovation. Case in point: Nearly all the growth in the S&P 500 (prior to 2025 YTD) has been driven by just seven companies, the so-called “Magnificent Seven”—Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Tesla. Between 2013 and 2019, they delivered 19% compound returns. The other 493 companies in the index delivered just 2% in that time period. And medtech is no different: the top five market cap growers accounted for 60% of all of the industry’s market cap growth from 2015 to 2024, and a full 80% of it since 2019. Studies show that of the thousands of product launches across industries each year, 70-90% fail.
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