Vanguard Knee….how much longer?

[anonymous]

At some point we need to ditch it if we are going to pull our dress up for Medtronic, right?

So, how much longer do we sell against ourselves?

does Hansen even know we still carry two total knee lines?

 

[anonymous]

Pretty funny that you think we only sell 2 knee lines! Says everything

 

[anonymous]

At some point we need to ditch it if we are going to pull our dress up for Medtronic, right?

So, how much longer do we sell against ourselves?

does Hansen even know we still carry two total knee lines?

the people that matter speak in market share

 

[anonymous]

Pretty funny that you think we only sell 2 knee lines! Says everything

I think it’s pretty fucking stupid that we sell more than 1, but hey….we told our design surgeons on Persona that Vanguard would be unavailable by 2017.

:checks calendar:

 

[anonymous]

Worst ever mistake in medtech history....Zimmer buying Biomet. Ask anyone with a normal or even slightly below normal IQ. And here we are still.....cleaning shit up. 7 years later trying to get our mojo back.

 

[anonymous]

the people that matter speak in market share

And we are LOSING.

 

[anonymous]

2024 is the dead date. At least that was what I heard at AAOS.

It’s honestly about 5 years past due. Absurd that we are still spending resources on vanguard

 

[anonymous]

Why are you so worried about getting rid of vanguard. It’s a great knee. Triathlon is about as old but Stryker keeps growing with it. Doctors that use the vanguard love it. What’s wrong with two knee systems. The company is big enough to offer two. We offer what 10 different femoral stems.

 

[anonymous]

Why are you so worried about getting rid of vanguard. It’s a great knee. Triathlon is about as old but Stryker keeps growing with it. Doctors that use the vanguard love it. What’s wrong with two knee systems. The company is big enough to offer two. We offer what 10 different femoral stems.

we definitely need a low cost option that we can give away to low cost centers. Vanguard is perfect for that. One knee make us too vulnerable to discounting. At least this way we can point to a low cost knee.

 

[anonymous]

There's four knees still and on the revision there's still persona, luck, 360, and ssk.

Something has to get cut just for inventory purposes. NKII should have been gone when they said it was going to be gone years ago, but they messed up with backorders and dug their own grave with that.

 

[anonymous]

Low cost facilities. Lol. Why would any reps with a brain still be working these facilities? I learned years ago that working 4 times as much for same amount of money is pointless. Find yourself some facilities where you can charge out the ass and keep it simple.

 

[anonymous]

It's June 10, 2022.

Who's charging out the for a knee? That shipped sailed years ago.

 

[anonymous]

It's June 10, 2022.

Who's charging out the for a knee? That shipped sailed years ago.

If your selling skills are as good as writing skills, it should surprise no on that you can’t sell shit.

 

[anonymous]

If your selling skills are as good as writing skills, it should surprise no on that you can’t sell shit.

Really you want to talk about spelling?

 

[anonymous]

Worst ever mistake in medtech history....Zimmer buying Biomet. Ask anyone with a normal or even slightly below normal IQ. And here we are still.....cleaning shit up. 7 years later trying to get our mojo back.

spot on! Zimmer bought Biomet to stop the bleeding and screwed it up so bad they actually increased the bleeding. Hilarious to watch.