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➤ management system across its orthopaedic medical education operations, but we are also working with other R&D areas of its business.’
From med devices to animal nutrition Te medical device industry has been a major client sector for GoInformatics. ‘Tere is a $16 billion medical device industry in our home region of Indiana, and the R&D labs of companies including Zimmer, Medtronic and Stryker represent major opportunities for us,’ Medina points out. GoInformatics has also built strong links with customers in the agricultural sciences, biofuels and animal nutrition sectors, as well as with the contract research industry. ‘Agricultural science companies also have a need for more advanced data and knowledge management tools to centralise unstructured discovery research, method development, protocol and assay review, etc. Our scientific cloud platform is a perfect fit for these areas. Te pharmaceutical sector is already fairly crowded with informatics providers, and so we are focusing our expertise in other industry segments, rather than encroaching on an already well-served industry.’
Focus on project management Te GoInformatics platform is built around a project management concept that enables companies to manage their R&D on a project- by-project basis. Tis project management focus is something that the firm is keen to stress and forms the foundation for all new client engagement discussions. ‘Te project management functionality that we build into our system, which now includes resource management and reservations, differentiates us from other informatics providers,’ comments Lianne Wojnarowicz Mink, director for global client services. ‘We are not just a scientific cloud platform that you purchase and start using with the flip of a switch. We first work with each client to discover their requirements. Tis will typically involve a discovery workshop with the client, which will tell us what we need to know to implement a plan and optimise our platform for their needs.’
Having access to real time data optimises collaboration and reduces operational cost
Aligning processes and policies ‘Te ultimate goal is to make sure that everyone who will be using our solutions has a clear understanding of how to derive the maximum benefit from its functionality,’ Wojnarowicz Mink indicates. Tis oſten means that the customer will need to standardise or align certain policies and procedures across departments. ‘Tus allowing the efficient derivation and exploitation of metrics on factors such as project milestones, tasks, costs and delays, to further optimise and streamline processes, and inform decision making. Tis alignment may include the scientists, project and
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laboratory managers, as well as accounting and legal departments. Te alignment of business processes becomes particularly important for the standardisation and optimisation of R&D tax audits, FDA audits, and IP filings’. Te discovery workshops effectively help to identify key departments as well as individual personnel, to derive cohesive policies and procedures. ‘We can then revisit and refine these requirements every six to 12 months, and make any new suggestions to the company, based on our experience and expertise, so that they always get the most out of our platform.’
Knowledge management leads to better business decisions, says GoInformatics
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Informed decision making Te emphasis is heavily focused on people and processes, rather than the technology, comments Chad Gregory, GoInformatics CEO.
‘Our solutions facilitate identifying each piece of the puzzle and deriving the optimum amount of information from those pieces to drive the project forward. Our solutions were created 100 per cent in the cloud to stay at the forefront of technology and provide the utmost flexibility. We started with a project management ELN, and then added a sophisticated inventory tracking and reservation system. What we have achieved, with our major medical device partnerships, was to make each part of the process more transparent. Now you know who is doing what, when, which resources are available, and how those resources are utilised. Te client can then collect and analyse all of the data to drive informed decisions.’
Anticipating the future needs of customers ‘Trough constant communication with customers and cloud industry leaders, it is clear that focused data collection, secure data management, and analytics will be key drivers of innovation’, claims Gregory. He maintains that establishing a centralised knowledge management infrastructure has allowed many of GoInformatics’ clients to accelerate their R&D projects through collaboration and greater data visibility. ‘Trough our tools they are now able to see links and patterns they could not see before,’ he states. ‘Tis enables our customers to take products and services to market faster than their competition. We are only scratching the surface of what we can do with our cloud technology infrastructure.’ Looking ahead, GoInformatics will focus on
expanding predictive metrics, data visualisation options and analytics to provide greater insight into R&D operations and beyond.l
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