Want your brand to instill the kind of lifelong allegiance that sports brands generate? Here are tips to selling more merchandise, connecting with new generations of fans, selling more food, and even helping connect fans with team sponsors.

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As I wrote in my last column, consumers are going to be the ones that drive health care reforms in two ways. First, they’re using technology to improve their own health. Second, and the topic of today’s column, consumers will help revolutionize the way health care is delivered. Companies like Teladoc and American Well were first to break the traditional office and clinic-based visit model on a large scale, promising and delivering physician access 24/7/365. They have given consumers the first good look at where health care delivery is going. And it’s the current and next generation of health care technologies—from relative newcomers like Scanadu, CliniCloud and First Opinion—who will help completely revolutionize the health care delivery model from the outside. I also see ways how giants like Amazon.com, CVS Health Corp., Qualcomm, IBM, Verizon Communications and Walgreen Co. can and will get in on the action.To see just how badly we need reforms in health care delivery, let’s look at a common health system encounter from the lens a typical consumer. I’ll use our family as the storyline, as we have five children, so have frequent opportunities to access health care, with hundreds of encounters over the past 20 years.

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China’s worst stock plunge in eight years today – a 9% drop on Shanghai’s main index — wiped out plenty of wealth among small investors smarting badly from what has turned into a 38% drop since mid–June on worries about economic growth and high valuations.

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At the Apple WWDC event this year Tim Cook made an absolute statement about user privacy and Apple’s stance. It was meant to draw a definite line in the sand to distinguish Apple from its main rival, Google, in how it applies privacy and control to consumer data.

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The healthcare business is in an upheaval of sorts. The disorder is driven by the arrival of the Internet itself, the ‘wearable’ Internet of Things (IoT) and the wider freedom and accessibility of information. In some instances we can see individuals using ‘devices’ from fitness & blood pressure monitors to blood analysis kits and onwards to start taking their healthcare into their own hands. But extensive and extended medical self-diagnosis is of course not necessarily a good idea.

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