KNOWLEDGE CENTRE
Med Tec 2018- “Speaking the same language- How to co-innovate and collaborate when Med Tech meets Pharma”
Alan Maloney from Avellana spoke on Wednesday, 18 April 2018, at the Med Tec Europe Start-Up & Innovation Forum in Stuttgart, Germany. Alan talked about the challenges that teams face in solving complex problems when Pharma and Med Tech companies...
Lean Laboratory- The secret to success.
My Son, I’ve been told, has a brilliant mind. When he’s “in the zone” he could baffle you with brilliance and make you wonder where all the knowledge comes from. However, far too often, he seems not to be in that zone, unmotivated, uninterested and unable to...
Why Med Tech Product Development should avoid becoming “Agile”
In recent years, there has been a surge in interest, and generally quite a buzz, around the concept of Agile, more specifically in the use of Agile Scrum, as a project management method in new product development. All industries seem to be succumbing to the allure and...
Regulatory Outsourcing- No alarms and no surprises please!
Outsourcing of regulatory support has been on the rise over the last decade and it is now a common practice. The Annual RIM Whitepaper 2016 by GENS & Associates stated that “ Since 2014 outsourcing has been considered a common practice with many qualified...
New Product Development- The Predictability Paradox
Predictability, and the pursuit thereof, is a common theme we encounter when working with large company clients and their Product Development teams. The concept is understandable, as big business must have some mechanism of predicting future performance and...
Lean Academic Innovation- Spend your time better by finding your hidden hypotheses.
You did a great job forming your original hypothesis. It was reasonable, testable, and you secured the funding and approval you needed to embark on a journey of innovation, maybe seed commercial success, maybe take a leap forward in human knowledge. So why does it...
Escaping the assumption trap: Make an ally of uncertainty to accelerate innovation.
Uncertainty makes us uncomfortable. When we are leading innovation, and our world is by its nature laced with unknowns, we naturally want to minimise uncertainty and we tend to tackle it with planning. When we write business cases, project justifications,...
Short interval control is the key to fast reaction
Short Interval Control is the Key to Fast Reaction Teams that use visual boards are several steps ahead of those that don't when it comes to short interval control. A daily stand-up huddle meeting, focused on a visual board that clearly reflects what is happening,...
Ticking the boxes is not enough for quality in creative processes
Quality is hard to define, hard to pin down, but we know it when we see it. In a painting. A wood carving. A well written article. The achievements of a committed team. But when we chase quality, it can be like trying to swim after a beachball; however much...
If your metrics don’t fight each other, you are not being honest with your measures.
The problem with asking for something, is that you often get what you ask for. When you're writing to Santa Claus, that's good. But if you're managing a mission critical process and you're the one who has to figure out the key performance metrics that will...