Collaborative Platforms Key To Future Pharma Success

Regulatory developments and technological innovation are opening up new opportunities for companies to use life cycle collaborative management to bring together parts of the value chain that have traditionally been relatively distant from each other. Collaboration will become increasingly important across the R&D/manufacturing interface and across the pharma/patient interface.

Until now, these interfaces have traditionally been points of disconnection rather than connection. For example, as a product moves from the development stage to the production stage, it is more likely to be ‘thrown over the wall’ between R&D and manufacturing rather than be part of an ongoing process where knowledge gained by the scientists has already been shared collaboratively with the engineers.