Manufacturers are facing a knowledge crisis. Baby boomer talent is retiring - and walking out the door with them are decades of knowledge crucial to company operations. Capturing knowledge that took years to develop and refine is difficult, time consuming and inefficient – but it does not need to be. Modern software and digital technologies can overcome many of the difficulties with traditional ways of capturing knowledge, easily preserving it for the future.
Enterprises around the world have been generating data at enormous rates, but they rarely use it to its fullest potential. Analytics for multi-million dollar business insights, successful artificial intelligence projects and compliance to high-risk federal regulations all hang from a common thread: high-quality data.
In March 2020, the Pharmaceuticals industry faced one of its most public-facing and time-pressing challenges to date: develop, manufacture, and distribute a vaccine for COVID-19 globally as quickly and safely as possible. While sheer human perseverance played a pivotal role in driving the notable speed to market for the vaccine, this approach is not sustainable nor practical for commercial drug products. Digital methods and tools should be leveraged to achieve similar results in a sustainable, efficient, and profitable way. Pharmaceutical manufacturers now face the need to confront these challenges head-on and embrace connectivity across the value chain, starting with laying the digital foundation for innovation in the form of Digital Knowledge Management and Pharma 4.0.
This year’s Field Service Medical conference reflected our new normal and the challenges organizations continue to face while navigating the circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. In a virtual setting, over 200 field service, customer success, IT and product management professionals from life sciences companies across the world gathered to share learnings and experiences. The discussions, both in conference sessions and during networking, focused on the impact of the pandemic and the path forward.
Organizational Change Management (OCM) is one of the most important – yet often overlooked – aspects of any digital transformation initiative. Here's how to put OCM at the heart of the change to make sure the organization is prepared and properly brought along on each step of the journey.
Out of sheer necessity, many apparel and footwear brands have transformed over the last year. Now is the time to build on this momentum to grow and scale that transformation – and not slip back to old ways of working.
For companies that manufacture complex capital equipment that sits in a hospital, manufacturing plant or other industrial setting for years, optimizing the way those products are serviced, updated and upgraded can be a competitive differentiator.
With innovation and the digital thread, Earth Day can be every day. Here's how to meet product design and manufacturing sustainability goals with the digital thread.
The pharma industry’s product development processes is complex and lengthy, but digital technologies can help. Here are the top AI use cases.
In January 2021, First Insight and Kalypso hosted a webinar on the growing importance of Voice-of-Customer (VoC) Analytics in the retail landscape. Here are some key insights.