Barbara Rhoden, PhD
The Adoption Diagnosis™

You are about to spend more. Do you know which adoption problem you are funding?

Before launch, the assumption gets built into the plan. After launch, it becomes the recovery strategy. Across a portfolio, it decides which company receives the next dollar.

Before Launch After Launch Portfolio
One question, at two moments. Find yours.
Before Launch

You are about to commit the launch budget, and cannot yet see whether adoption will follow.

The launch budget is finite, and commercial choices are already taking shape. The diagnosis shows what is most likely to block adoption while the plan can still change and before the spend is locked.

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What teams are seeing

Familiar patterns, easy to misread.

The market is aware, but evaluation does not convert.
Pilots begin, but expansion does not follow.
The product is installed, but sustained use falls away.
Sales, marketing, product, and clinical each name a different cause.
The next budget request repeats the same untested assumption.
Portfolio companies describe different adoption problems in the same words.

If one of these is happening, the explanation you are funding may be wrong.

The barriers

Adoption risk shows up in three places.

Adoption is sustained, intentional, on-label use by its intended users.

Awareness.

They do not enter the funnel, because they do not know the solution or when it applies.

Usability.

They try it or install it, but it does not fit how care is actually delivered.

Trust.

They evaluate, but do not believe enough to change what they do.

The diagnosis tells you what to address first, what not to fund yet, and what evidence must change before you invest again.

The misallocation

The expensive mistake is acting on the barrier you assumed.

Barrier actually in the way
What you fund Awareness Usability Trust
Marketing and visibility Aligned Scales a broken experience Amplifies doubt
Product and workflow Better product, empty room Aligned Easier to use, still untrusted
Evidence and credibility Evidence nobody sees True, but irrelevant Aligned

Marketing and visibility

Awareness Aligned
Usability Scales a broken experience
Trust Amplifies doubt

Product and workflow

Awareness Better product, empty room
Usability Aligned
Trust Easier to use, still untrusted

Evidence and credibility

Awareness Evidence nobody sees
Usability True, but irrelevant
Trust Aligned

And funding the same remedy across a portfolio scales the wrong diagnosis.

The wrong diagnosis does not just delay growth. It directs capital toward an intervention that cannot solve the problem.

What makes this a diagnosis

A measured read, not an opinion.

The Adoption Diagnosis™ goes beyond naming Awareness, Trust or Usability. It uses a structured diagnostic instrument to test where adoption is actually breaking, drawing on stakeholder evidence, commercial behavior and real-world use. The result names what is actually blocking adoption, shows the evidence behind it, states what has been ruled out, and makes clear what should and should not be funded next.

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Why this holds

Built from launches, not slides.

Twenty years commercializing more than twenty FDA-cleared technologies across medical device, diagnostics, and digital health, from first launch through stalled adoption, commercial recovery, and portfolio decisions.

In one case, visibility rose dramatically and adoption still did not follow. The apparent success had not solved adoption. It had exposed the next barrier.

What you can get

The work, by where you are.

Each situation starts somewhere different. The Fit Check confirms which one fits.

Before Launch
Value Proposition Diagnostic

Tests whether your value story will land, before you spend the launch budget. You get a straight answer on whether you are ready, and the obstacle most likely waiting for you.

Adoption Sprint

Includes the diagnostic above, then goes further: names what will most likely stop adoption, and sets where the launch budget should go.

After Launch
Adoption Read

Finds what is actually blocking adoption, on evidence rather than internal opinion.

Adoption Sprint

Goes further. Names the single constraint on the business, and redirects the budget behind fixing it.

Portfolio
Adoption Read

The same read, run across your companies. Shows where adoption risk concentrates, and which asset warrants deeper investigation first.

The Sprint is worked alongside the leadership team, not handed over as a report at the end.

Not sure which fits? That is what the Fit Check is for. Each of these ends in a decision you can defend: see what you receive.

Start with a Fit Check.

You leave knowing whether there is enough evidence to run the diagnosis, what is still missing, and the right next step.

A short, free conversation, including whether now is the right time to run it.

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