Articles
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The biotechnology industry operates at the nexus of cutting-edge science, intricate regulatory frameworks, and rapidly shifting market dynamics. While innovation is the lifeblood of biotech, a company's success—whether it’s a startup developing a groundbreaking therapy or a large firm streamlining its operations—hinges on strategic decision-making.
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Proper accounting and robust business processes are at least as critical, and perhaps even more critical for biotech startups and small biotech companies than for Fortune 500s.
Read why in this brief article!
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Imagine a world where the delicate balance between medical innovation and public trust hangs by a thread. Now, place Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the helm of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), where his leadership could have profound consequences, either guiding the US health system toward potentially better, but uncharted, waters or exacerbating existing and harmful divisions.
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The BIOSECURE Act, passed by the US House in late 2024, has yet to be considered by the Senate. This leaves the bill's future uncertain and raises questions about its potential impact on the US pharmaceutical industry, particularly for startup, small, and emerging biotech companies.
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Risk identification only works if everyone is truly engaged--not just participating, but engaged fully as if an owner of the activity.
Read how one healthcare expert managed to bring together a wide range of diverse, talented groups to quickly achieve a potentially complicated end goal.
As project managers we are often asked to attend “urgent” meetings on short notice. More times than not, these meetings are poorly run, inadequately attended, stray off topic and include too many topics to manage in the period allotted. Life does not have to be this way.
As our series continues to help you alleviate meeting madness, we talk about the various types of meetings we attend and how the agenda format should take the meeting purpose into account--and how nearly all meetings can be grouped into one of four categories.
For any meeting--such as those using method or adaptive agendas that require steps, materials or supplies to be used--a process agenda is critical to your success. The process agenda provides the “how” of a meeting, whereby the meeting agenda itself defines the “what”. Get some help in the concluding installment of our three-part series.
PMOs frequently find themselves in front of an audience--sometimes as a meeting facilitator, sometimes as a presenter and sometimes as a motivational speaker. It is critical that as a PMO you have “presence” if you are to be the most effective leader you can be--and why would you want anything else?
Webinars
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The Right PMO for You!
This webinar is from the 2019 PMI PMO Expo/Summit but still gets feedback and views daily. With over 70,000 views after the summit, and 4.6/5 stars, it makes it the most liked webinar from this summit that included over 37,000 attendees. Between the summit and the views afterwards, over 100,000 people have appreciated the somewhat unorthovalue in this presentation regarding setting up a PMO in your organization.
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Healthcare Project Management
This webinar was presented at PMI's Healthcare Community of Practice. Although published in 2013, the insights are still relevant today as you will discover how the tools and techniques of project management are relevant in the healthcare provider settings.
Co-presented with best selling author Dr. Kathy Schwalbe, co-author of Healthcare Project Management and bes.
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Selected Blogs
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Ensuring you have a bullpen, staff who are ready to step into new roles with new responsibilities, is paramount to any successful organization.
This brief post discusses the need to have staff in your bullpen to ensure business and project continuity.
Many less couldn't care less about project management, and yet they are then surprised when communication breaks down, deadlines are missed, and objectives are not met. And, that project management is not about just checking off boxes.
This brief post discusses the dangers of of "not caring" about project management.
There is often an inpatience to things in our lives, from waiting in line to get your food to kicking off a project at work.
This brief post discusses the importance of taking your time to improve project success.
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