Melissa Rones of Ropes & Gray masterfully moderated the panel on Investment Themes that Will Shape Life Sciences Dealmaking Strategies in 2023 and Beyond on Sunday afternoon. These in-person From the Boardroom events have become one of the highlights of my JPM week events. The diverse, esteemed, and brilliant panel…

A local biotech company has an opening for an Executive Director of IT Quality and Compliance and after a quick inquiry with a friend who works at the company, I learned it reports up into the CFO. This is a good thing. Not the best thing. …

Life sciences companies, especially biotech and small pharma, have lagged behind other industries in their adoption of technology to optimize business performance and get to market more quickly. …

I’ve received a few inquiries lately from SaaS vendors interested in selling into life sciences. They see the big dollars in the sector and want a piece of it. I don’t blame them. The calls I received were for validation services. They wanted me to come in and ‘validate’ their…

Welcome Back My World Class Passengers: Oh the places we will go. Life is full of important milestones and decisions. Sometimes they are own, and sometimes they are for the people we love.

When you’ve expended resources selecting, defining, implementing, and testing an enterprise system, surely you’d want to make sure users are using it in the manner in which it was designed. This ensures consistency of use, data integrity, and increases the reliability of the system and associated data. How do you…

Documentation has saved me on so many occasions that I’ve lost count at this point, and the most powerful project document for use in ongoing operations, when done correctly, is the Configuration Document. Sometimes these are called Design Specifications. Regardless of the title, the purpose of the document is to…

Prior to system selection, it’s generally a best practice to generate a user requirements document to define what is required and desired in a new system. Requirements include technology stacks and platforms, user functionality, integration requirements, and security / control. …

Similar to the Data Migration Plan and Testing Plan, in preparing the Project Document and the Detailed Project Plan, a few other planning documents are created including the Training Plan. There are generally multiple levels of training provided during a project beginning with project team training. During the project, there…