1. Process innovation for diabetes
patients
Team Immortal
Mats Feskens
Ricardo Sieben
Lars van Beek
Bob van Hees
Annemarie van der Lugt

2.  Product
 Process description
 Pros and cons
 Literature
 Future prospects
 Website
Agenda

3.  Implantable chip
 Tiny lab on a chip
 Measures different blood levels
 Scientists in Switzerland
Product

4. Process description

5.  Constant glucose monitoring (combined with
automatic insulin pump a fully automated process)
 Real time analysis by internist (react on extreme
measurements)
 Less often to the hospital
 Cost reduction
 Not waiting for lab results
 Prediction of diseases made possible by analysing the
collected data
Pros

6.  Patient needs to trust on the technology
 Decreased amount of contact time between doctor
and patient
 Possible privacy issues
Cons

7.  Disruptive Technologies – Joseph L Bower and
Clayton M Christensen
 A Dynamic Model of Process and Product Innovation
– James M Utterback, William J Abernathy
 Process innovation (Oslo manual, 2005)
 Technology Adaptation: The Case of a Computer-
Supported Inter-Organizational Virtual Team -
Majchrzak et al.
Literature

8.  Broader application than just diabetes
 Further developed chips for a lot of blood levels
 Precautious uses might make treatment easier,
cheaper and more effective
 Data mining to create models for diseases/disorders
Future prospects