By Elisabeth Goodman It’s been an honour, whilst also slightly intimidating, to have a chapter included in this latest project management publication edited by Dennis Lock and Lindsay Scott: the Gower Handbook of People in Project Management1. Project teams may want to get to “high performance” more rapidly than operational teams As I say in the …
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for my blogs. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog (Recognising reactions to change, and responding to them) had 14,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 3 Film Festivals These were …
John Riddell and Elisabeth Goodman are writing a book on “Knowledge Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Enhancing Research, Development and Manufacturing Performance”. Whilst the book will be focused on the Pharmaceutical Industry, our aim is to discuss and demonstrate how Knowledge Management can be applied in a variety of environments. We hope that existing and …
Contributors sought for new book on Knowledge Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry Read More »
By Elisabeth Goodman(1) As a member of One Nucleus, I had the opportunity to join about 200 delegates from a mixture of Biotech, CRO, Biopharm, Technology, IT, Government, Academic and Business Consulting organisations at an open evening at GlaxoSmithKline’s Stevenage site on Wednesday 8th June, 2011 After an opening address by One Nucleus’s CEO, Harriet …
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Business Process Excellence for Pharmaceuticals, Biotech and Medical Devices, The Brewery, London, April 2011 (2 of 2) John Riddell and Elisabeth Goodman, RiverRhee Consulting1 For part 1 of this blog see: 2nd Business Process Excellence for Pharmaceuticals, Biotech and Medical Devices (1 of 2) http://wp.me/pAUbH-40 Application to ‘other’ environments (1): biotech Simon Orchard, Vice President Biotech Operations …
Business Process Excellence for Pharmaceuticals, Biotech and Medical Devices, The Brewery, London, April 2011 (1 of 2) John Riddell and Elisabeth Goodman, RiverRhee Consulting1 This was the second of IQPC’s specialist conferences on this theme, and as last time2, many of those questioned by the authors were finding it of real value for learning about …
Reflections from IQPC’s 6th Annual Smartlab Exchange, Berlin, February 2011 ELNs, LIMS, and LESs IQPC kindly invited me to speak on Operational Excellence and Knowledge Management at this year’s Smartlab Exchange conference in Berlin. Although I have been responsible for Biological Data Management and Laboratory Notebooks in an R&D environment during the course of my …
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I’ve just finished reading Michael George’s “Lean and Six Sigma for Service”1, a very useful refresher on many of the key concepts of Lean and Six Sigma, as well as a useful perspective on the challenges and opportunities for applying the tools and methodologies in non-manufacturing environments. Learning from books like these is always helpful …
Lean and Six Sigma in R&D and Service Delivery – opportunities and challenges Read More »
An integrated approach to Strategy, People, Process, Content and Technology is central to the success of business process improvement. Elisabeth Goodman, Owner and Principal Consultant, RiverRhee Consulting, opened the conference with the importance of these themes in achieving Business Process Excellence (BPE). She also came back to them in a later presentation (http://slidesha.re/aVhZso) describing the role …
