ABOUT
A practitioner’s point of view.
Desika (Desikachari) Nadadur, PhD, has spent more than two decades working across complex healthcare systems, leading enterprise clinical platform implementations at scale, building and directing R&D organizations from concept through FDA clearance, advising executives on healthcare technology strategy, and observing, repeatedly, why most healthcare innovation does not survive contact with the institution that funded it.
The work is animated by a stubborn conviction: healthcare does not need more clever ideas. It needs better conditions for the ideas it already has: clearer governance, a shared language across clinical and operational leadership, and the discipline to align decisions across domains that are usually managed in isolation.
The consulting practice exists to translate that conviction into engagements that produce durable change. Not slide decks. Not pilot programs that quietly expire. Operating systems for innovation.
THE BOOK
PUBLISHED 2026
Designing Healthcare Innovation Ecosystems
A Systems Thinking Framework for Coherent, Human-Centered, Value-Driven Transformation
The book sets out the Four-Phase Innovation Framework and the systems thinking foundation underneath it. It is written for the people who have to make innovation actually work: innovation officers, CMIOs, CIOs, transformation leaders, and the executives who fund their programs.
AVAILABLE ON AMAZON / APPLE BOOKS
PHILOSOPHY
On the work itself.
Healthcare needs more rigorous, human-centered, systemically grounded approaches to how innovation happens, and fewer presentations on what innovation is. The aim of every engagement is the same: to leave the organization with a stronger operating system for the next decade of change, not a single answer to a single question.