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decision making, and risk and opportunity assessment. It includes day-today management and motivation of international project teams and management of joint ventures. It covers operational planning, which requires an understanding of the basic principles of networking, scheduling, and critical path analysis. It includes an understanding of intelligent resource management in the face of the high rates of project attrition and conversancy with techniques of steady-state portfolio analysis. Integration of planning for individual projects with the management of the total development resource pool presents particular challenges to most organizations. Some companies have made significant progress in recent years to harness the improved technology in information and planning systems to provide a multiuser distributed planning capability better able to support the project demand and resource supply interface. |
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Pharmaceutical Project Management highlights a number of topics of key importance to the successful management of contemporary drug development. The contributing authors bring a wealth of development experience drawn from a broad variety of companies to capture the diversity of approaches to project management. The scope of the book includes strategic and operational aspects of the drug development management at both project and portfolio levels. Basic concepts and the practical application of computerized planning techniques are considered. Issues and approaches to successful management of international project teams and for joint ventures are explored. Specific consideration is given to decision making in drug development in the context of management structures that vary significantly between companies. The application of project management to particular development areas is described for clinical trials and manufacturing groups. Also, development work is increasingly contracted out by the pharmaceutical industry, bringing with it specific issues to contractor and contractee. The issues and solutions of both parties are considered. |
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The audience for this book will most likely include those in drug development and project management, as well as pharmaceutical industry consultants and project managers in other industries, e.g., chemical and food. |
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Looking to the future, the impact of the dramatic pace of change in information technology on project management is considered. Last but not least, the future role of the professional project manager is discussed, including a review of candidate profile and training needs. |
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TONY KENNEDY |
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