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Special Edition White Paper
Commentary & Opinion by R. Lewis Dark, Founder & Publisher
As the New Year's celebration rings out the year 2000 and welcomes
2001, The Dark Report will celebrate more than five years of service
to the clinical laboratory industry and the pathology profession.
It has certainly been an extraordinary five years for laboratories
throughout the United States and the world. All segments of the
clinical laboratory industry have undergone traumatic and widespread
restructuring. So it is only appropriate for us to devote this entire
issue to our "White Paper" on the laboratory industry.
If you think the rate of change in the last five years was exhausting,
just wait. We are in a quiet period today. But over the next 18
to 36 months, a torrent of new diagnostics technology and cost-effective
information services will hit the laboratory marketplace.
To help our clients and regular readers with their strategic planning,
The Dar Report offers this comprehensive look at the laboratory
industry and its near term directions. As usual, Editor-in-Chief
Robert Michel is provocative. I don't expect all of you will agree
with 100% of what he says, but I'll bet this White Paper causes
you to think differently about several key issues affecting your
laboratory. If so, then we will have done our job once again.
The market insights and business intelligence you glean from this
White Paper represent a lot of hard work and strategic analysis.
Our editor tends to understate where he develops these ideas and
conclusions. I think it is fair for you to know that he travels
between 20 and 26 weeks per year visiting laboratories, pathology
group practices, and lab industry vendors throughout several countries.
Moreover, he is regularly engaged to participate in strategic consulting
sessions with a remarkable range of companies and individuals.
It is this extensive, and in some cases unlimited, access to such
a broad range of lab industry leaders and early adopters which shapes
the useful business intelligence you regularly access from the pages
of The Dark Report. The quality of this information is a priceless
asset for a lab executive who can absorb its relevance and apply
it to the success of his or her laboratory organization.
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Dark
Report presents "White Paper" Summary of Laboratory Industry
Unmet challenges of the 1990s still require appropriate response
by lab industry leaders
Introduction: To celebrate five eventful years of service to the
laboratory industry and pathology profession, The Dark Report is
pleased to present its first "White Paper" on the laboratory
industry. Our goal is to help laboratories and their suppliers accurately
identify relevant market dynamics and understand how and why these
market forces will affect the stability and financial fortunes of
laboratories during the first 24 to 36 months of this new decade.
• Chapter 1: Business Premises Underlying Laboratory Industry
Dynamics
• Chapter 2: Strategic Business Failures of the Laboratory
Industry During the 1990s
• Chapter 3: Competitive Dynamics in the Lab Testing Marketplace
• Chapter 4: Summary and Overview of Lab Industry
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