Competitive Intelligence
Competitive Intelligence It is pardonable to be defeated, but never to be surprised. –Frederick the Great True competitive intelligence affects nothing less than the sheer survival and prosperity of the…
Personnel and Staffing Issues
Personnel and Staffing Issues I am wondering what would have happened to me if some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me…
Enhancing Communication
Enhancing Communication Having served on various committees, I have drawn up a list of rules: Never arrive on time; this stamps you as a beginner. Don’t say anything until the…
Reducing Pharmaceutical Risk
Reducing Pharmaceutical Risk The major non-technical reasons for discontinuations (of drugs in development) are marketing re-assessments or management discontent. Most occur before sufficient data are available to make informed judgments….
Corporate Management
Corporate Management The key element in developing a shared purpose is mutual trust. Without trust, people will engage in all kinds of self-centered behavior to assert their own identities and…
Organization at the Corporate Level
Organization at the Corporate Level A staff of four hundred represents the critical number in a firm taken over. It is the number which separates the personal boss from the…
Models of International Operations
Models of International Operations A method developed on one continent has difficulty being accepted on another. –Fritz Beller The term international operations is used in this chapter to describe how…
Future Environments for Drug Discovery and Development
Future Environments for Drug Discovery and Development The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. Indeed, I…
Stimulating Innovation and Increasing Efficiency with the Right Questions, People, Milieu, and Approaches
Stimulating Innovation and Increasing Efficiency with the Right Questions, People, Milieu, and Approaches The first intimations of a new idea may be too nebulous to be captured and arranged for…
A New Paradigm of Drug Development
A New Paradigm of Drug Development However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. –Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister. This chapter presents a 25,000 foot view of…
