Digital transformation is about more than technology

Applying Life Sciences best practices for business success

Today, competitive life sciences companies are looking to transform their everyday operational processes. Through strategic use of modern technology, their goal and absolute requirement to stay competitive is to manage workloads more efficiently and consistently for better business outcomes. In these complex businesses, it’s critical to approach this transformation from both the technology perspective as well as the holistic business perspective. This holistic view can make a profound difference to project outcomes, delivering the most business impact and ROI on technology investments.

Twelve years of experience working with clients on exactly this potential has provided fme consultants with a unique ability to help here. We understand the business processes and know first-hand how all the technology fits together to provide optimal workflows and solutions. Our experience goes beyond immediate critical areas like Regulatory Affairs, and extends across different business units to amplify the value of complex data, documents, and information.

Here’s a brief overview of one of our typical engagements. Read the information below and contact us for more details, and to discuss your current challenges.

Long term relationships for long term success

We first connected with one of our long-term clients over a decade ago. As a successful international pharmaceutical firm, they had many divisions and business units integrated through a complex network of systems, servers and silos that shared, shuffled and sorted a plethora of data and documents around the globe. The scope of our initial technical engagement was to maintain servers and associated processes, which we were able to provide quite well.

As we worked together on this first engagement, the fme team was able to get a deeper understanding of the content, tasks, goals, and strategies that were being used across different business units. Our goal wasn’t myopically focused on deploying systems, or even the larger task of integrating them and migrating data from legacy environments. Based on our extensive industry experience, we took a holistic view, discerning how those systems could be used more efficiently. We saw how their information was being applied throughout the company, and presented a range of opportunities to streamline and simplify the way those tasks were being completed day to day. Our client was overwhelmed with our initiative, and opened up several more projects. In one instance, we were able to reconfigure a system so users around the world can log onto a controlled environment and fill out the relevant training information in just a few minutes, without any to-ing and fro-ing of queries. Processes that once took 30 minutes or more per request can now be completed via self-service in a fraction of that time.

With successes like these, our relationship quickly expanded and evolved with many additional business units. We’ve been able to improve in areas ranging from the generation of reports and overviews, and the digitalization of manual processes, to the reinvention of training and associated administration, and much more. In another recent project, we analyzed business processes and assessed the scope for digital transformation using the Microsoft Power Platform, including the central recording of data around business documentation and training. Our peak projects there have seen us field 15-20 technical consultants globally, plus two on the business side, providing a seamless interface between the business departments and the technical teams.

Today, we continue to be a prominent digital partner, continuing to help streamline daily activities as well as plan and execute larger long-term initiatives.

fme is the company you love to work with

The reason clients like this love to work with fme is our unique experience and insights from successful digital transformations in a wide range of companies and industries. In addition, the rapport we build with our clients is pivotal. We’re open, approachable, and visible to the business and technical teams we work with, and they feel comfortable talking to us. The client team knows that if they are under-resourced/have particular knowledge gaps, we’re ready to step in. Where required, we can take over as a project lead or manager too, overseeing the interconnections between different processes and the scope for higher-level thinking.

We have a broad spectrum of knowledge, and can always find the answer to a challenge even if that resolution if outside of the current project. We’re specialists not just in system implementation and content migration, but also in how to transport legacy processes to a new digital set-up, where workloads can be refined and optimized. Our engagements span quality management, standard operating procedure (SOP) management, regulated/submissions documents, clinical trial administration, and training SOPs, and more.

If you’re struggling to progress your own digital transformation ambitions, why not have a coffee with us and we can talk through the various ways we might be able to help?

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