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Program Management

Creating a new drug takes more than just 10 years and $2.6 Billion.

It takes thousands of actions and decisions of hundreds of people working and learning together, sharing knowledge and collaborating with one other across several teams and locations to achieve a single unified outcome. 

This is why coordinating actions and communicating decisions of researchers in academia, principal investigators, and clinical sites, with multiple internal departments and external partners - contract research and manufacturing organizations, agencies, and consultants, throughout the life of the program — is an extraordinary challenge for most companies.

Breaking information silos, so that the right info reaches the right person at the right time, can give your teams that extra edge for achieving their program's desired objectives.

Challenges

Although technologies from yesteryears, like the Gantt Chart (c.1917) and MS Project (c.1984) have served teams well in managing project timelines so far, it is not surprising that program leaders today are finding them to be inadequate for keeping up with the current dynamics of decentralized and fast-paced drug development environment.

Beyond the challenge of achieving their program’s objectives, antiquated technologies burden today’s leaders with additional workflow challenges that act as a barrier to their success. 

Such as - 

  • With information scattered across documents, folders, and drives, teams waste precious time every day searching for relevant information needed for making daily decisions

  • The dependence on static slides for sharing progress updates and knowledge exchange creates artificial information lags that hinder timely issue identification and resolution

  • Teams need to spend an inordinate amount of time in status update meetings. Missing the opportunity to use their time together to brainstorm ideas and anticipate problems

  • Over-reliance on spreadsheets discourages teams to adequately prepare for unforeseen project circumstances, and effectively respond to the constant flux in their environment

  • Exclusive focus on formal documents due to required effort means that leaders miss out on collating their team's tacit knowledge causing organizational memory loss over time

  • The absence of any technology that facilitates learning from the challenges or successes of similar past projects, stunts the speed of knowledge work, which is crucial to innovation

Solutions

Enlighten has been designed to assist program leaders in tackling these workflow challenges and for overcoming technology barriers that may hinder them from achieving their objectives.