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Regular access to such discussion forums has, potentially, great impact across the international organization by achieving shared learning and rapid uptake of best practice. An IT-supported home page can support the above including performance management documentation, planning and problem solving tools, a staffing database and their own project work files. The information contained within the home page greatly facilitates the handover process, as projects move through the R&D life cycle, by minimizing the loss of value. |
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For the project manager to remain focused on the objective and ensure that it is met requires effective handling in each area of project management: |
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Project planning and tracking. As a result of team empowerment and the availability of project information to each member of the project team, creating, executing, and monitoring a milestone-based project plan can become the collective responsibility of the project team, not solely of a project manager. Once established, updating of the project plan can be enabled by an integrated infrastructure feeding in relevant information. |
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Business case management. A clearly defined business case showing justification for proceeding with a drug development project must be created, and more importantly, reviewed and updated regularly. Integration and improved communication infrastructures will aid this process, providing timely information and facilitating easier tracking of key drivers. This will enable making important decisions earlier and with greater confidence rather than relying solely on gut feelings. Moreover, the availability of information to all members of the project team means that development opportunities can be assessed from many perspectives by a multiskilled team. This should include greater marketing input and scientific assessment to ensure that products are developed with the correct indications and that priorities between projects are correctly set. |
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Technology can also help with reuse by collecting and synthesizing historical information to provide benchmarking for future projects. Even external factors can be assessed more effectively by tracking them with such a framework. Improved business case management can reduce cost and lead time significantly by weeding out marginal products. |
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Resource management/capacity planning. Greater internal visibility of information through integration allows improved assessment of |
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