“Accelerating R&D” Key Initiatives for Life Science Manufacturers 2016

Before each calendar year begins, we put a lot of effort into outlining areas of research and how these areas align with strategic key initiatives (KIs).  The life science-related  KIs for CIOs and IT leaders have been broken into several disciplined areas:

1. Commercial (i.e. How to more effectively market optimal therapies and services to different customers (patients, payers, providers, etc.)
2. Accelerating innovation. (i.e. How to get a new innovation – drug, service, technology or product – to market faster?)
3. Supply Chain (SC) (i.e. How to intelligently manufacture high quality products with compliance?)

For R&D-related KI details, read:  Accelerating R&D and New Product Innovation in Life Sciences Primer for 2016 26 January 2016  G00292958

Commercial is covered by Stephen Davies.  Supply Chain quality, manufacturing and serialization, etc is covered by a host of other SC analysts.  I’m the lead for the R&D KI.  This year, I’m planning on breaking up the R&D-related research (research notes, surveys, executive briefing decks, workshops, presentations etc.)  into the topics below. While these will mostly be contextualized for life science (pharma, biotech, medical device, CROs, etc.), a lot of this material translates reasonably well into other scientific-domain manufacturing environments (crop science, materials, cosmetics, food and beverage, etc.)

R&D Tech Trends and Cool stuff:

• Hype Cycle for Life Sciences, 2016
• Cool Vendors in Life Sciences, 2016
• Life Science Business Drivers
• Top 10 Technology Opportunities for Pharma

R&D IT productivity:

• Life Science CIO R&D IT Blueprint
• Digital Strategy Development and Best Practices
• Analytics and BI Maturity in Life Science
• Embracing “Shadow IT” as Partners, Not Adversaries

Laboratory IT:

• Laboratory of the Future
• ELN/LIMS Maturity Model & Best Practices
• Laboratory Informatics Market Guide for ELN/LIMS
• Mind the Laboratory IT Service Gap

Clinical Development:

• E-Clinical Systems Evolution
• Patient Engagement and Mobile Apps in Clinical Trials
• What’s Your Reality for Real-World Evidence (RWE)?
• Identification of Medicinal Product (IDMP)…which was just published.

R&D while meeting regulatory compliance:

• Regulated vs Non Regulated ECM Tug of War
• Clinical Trial Data Transparency Readiness
• RIMS Vendors Overview
• eTMF Maturity

Of course, we’ll also contribute in special reports (IoT, 3D Printing, Digital Business, Industry Fluidity), manage tech profiles going into a bunch of related hype cycles (e.g. Healthcare, 3D Printing, PLM, Supply Chain), and stay on top of “first takes” for events and vendor M&A activities.

Yikes!   Time is flying. We are already burned through 1/12 of 2016.  Back to the research….