“Healthcare” whirls around a system of maximum complexity. There is complexity in managing integrated care. Complexity in reimbursement. Complexity in staffing models. Complexity in launching and delivering new service lines. Complexity in policy. Complexity in competition. Executive teams need to assess their strategic fit with this reality, position a strategy for continuous advantage, and leverage technology to execute on that strategy.

The roadmap starts not with data interoperability, but ‘market interoperability’ — Superwinners will be those who can aggregate the ‘commercial determinants of health’ and curate them within the context of a new economic system (ecosystem).

This Executive Briefing Note shows how to ‘Harness the Carnival’.