In the Life Science industry, it is well known that time is money and a wrong decision can be extremely costly. Therefore, hiring an expert for a shorter or longer period of time is a well known concept. Below are some examples of how an expert, or a team of experts, can be used. The…
Did you build the structure for expansion creating a platform for growth, or was it just what came first to mind that controlled the process. It is never too late to build platforms for growth. Platforms are the basis for company expansion; they free up resources to focus on the company’s goals. It is a…
Many companies are busy with new products and spend big budgets to develop and test them. What they often neglect is to spend a few hours more securing freedom to operate by filing the right applications for their inventions. The technology today allows you to handle the protection process right from your office desk or…
Many experts use their time preparing documents instead of developing and testing new products This is a double edged sword. The company will need to hire more experts, difficult to find locally or even on the international scene. The experts, on the other hand, do not feel challenged in their job and will consider leaving…
The pharmaceutical industry is constantly challenged to comply with new regulatory requirements. Well established companies have grown their document portfolio from a very simple structure of few specifications to now more than 100 different document types. The industry is now facing databases of high complexity with low visibility controlling their documents. The problem for most…
The globe is getting smaller every day; we can now reach nearly every corner of our world in one day, but at the same time we also become more and more busy. Questions as mentioned below become more and more frequent on the corporate agenda; How close are you to your supplier? Do you know…
What Toyota did is by no means magic. Many of us have been reading of “The Toyota Way”, famous for introducing a bulk of systems. However, what Toyota, and many other giant companies really succeeded in, was to understand and work with their suppliers. Toyota knew that component quality comes down to the process around producing…
What are the factors that make or break a timely market debut? The project plan is laid out and everyone knows that the target day will not be met – the project faces delay. How do you get the product to reach market on time? Many companies have grown so big that it is impossible to…
Subject Matter Experts are of high value to your project team securing the right decisions; The project might need a Subject Matter Expert for a shorter period of time. Often companies see the expert as a full time resource on location But a subject matter expert is commonly only needed on site for part time or…
When the working day get too busy for you to reflect upon time consuming activities, it is time to get a time/activity analysis. Pharmaceutical companies have a tendency to oversee the places where resources can be used better and more accurate, hence, many working processes are in circular instead of directed at the end goal. We…
Tasks are often limited by a scope of time. Hence, the resources to perform the tasks are compromised as they are not available within scope. This is due to the time consumed in finding, hiring or moving the right resources. By having flexible resources, the task can be performed in time by an expert in…