Convergent Informatics

The Virtual CIO

Putting together People, Processes, Technology

Clinical Domain Expertise

Preclinical Global Clinical Development Medical Affairs Global Commerical Operations

Pre Clinical Expertise

Licensing

  • Implemented a single IT functional support model for the Licensing Operations team eliminating multiple touch points with the IT supply chain for the Prospectors, Scientists and Analysts. The new solution provided the Licensing stakeholders with greater decision making capability in helping to evaluate prospects and monitor existing deals.

Scientific Outreach

  • Deployed a Web based reporting tool to collect data from multiple source systems that provided visibility to Finance, Corporate Development and Licensing stakeholders into total expenditures for scientific grants. The solution helped integrate Key Opinion Leader and scientific research community information, eliminating redundant communications and duplication of grants processing.

Global Clinical Development Expertise

Document management

documents
  • Implemented a non-regulated Document Management solution for 5 Therapeutic Area divisions and 40 plus Product Strategy Teams. This involved a migration from several legacy systems and established a new document management practice for Commercialization stakeholders resulting in substantial time savings in document collaboration.
  • Implemented a fully compliant Document Management Solution to manage Clinical Trial information generated in China and the United States

Mobile Workforce Capability

  • Transitioned the Clinical Field Operations team from a headquarters-based to a Home-Office based solution. Deployed hardware, software and connectivity solutions resulting in significant cost savings.

Medical Affairs Expertise

Publication Planning

  • Deployed Publication Planning system to support Medical Affairs preparation and approval of documentation for the medical community. Solution was adopted by the Public Affairs department to track preparation and approval of documentation for release to the news media and investors.

Call CenterMedical Call Center

  • Deployed Call Center platform to support a large biopharmaceutical company's Medical Call Center which enabled the business to understand the pattern of information requests from medical professionals. Capability helped streamline the Medical Q&A process and to determine the necessary Medical Education required.

Global Sales and Marketing Expertise

Customer Master and Field Alignment

  • Lead effort to create a single customer master data management and field alignment system which was a first for a large BioPharmaceutical company. Expanded capability to enable a 360 degree view of the customer at enterprise level, capturing all interactions from research to sales, while meeting all regulatory standards.

Customer Relationship Management/ and Sales Force Automation

  • Lead selection and deployment of CRM solution to 500 field sales people for initial release. Subsequent release expanded to 1,200 field staff and implemented a standard selling model. CRM Capability supported a five-fold increase in company sales.

Government Affairs Government Affairs

  • Deployed PAC (Political Action Committee) recruitment, management, gift matching and government reporting system that resulted in a ten fold increase in PAC contributions.
  • Deployed a Lobbying Relationship Tracking system and Government Reporting system to leverage Lobbyist's time and to simplify the mandatory reporting process.

Competitive Intelligence

  • Implementated a Global Competitive Intelligence (CI) platform across Sales, Marketing, Research and Development at a large BioTech. Replaced the fragmented processes and tools that were in place. The new capability enabled the firm to better understand the CI landscape and change business strategies appropriately.
  • Implementated a USA focused Competitive Intelligence (CI) gathering system for a mid size BioTech company utilizing rapid development methodologies. The system was oriented to gathering information at congresses.

Contracts Medicaid Reporting

  • Implemented system to streamline the reporting of contract prices to multiple government entities. Enabled firm to meet expanded, government mandatory reporting requirements without an increase in staff.

Government Pricing

  • Implemented solution to calculate new regulations on reporting Average Selling Price (ASP) and other related pricing information to government. Enabled firm to meet expanded, government mandatory reporting requirements without an increase in staff.

Sales Reporting and Business Intelligence

  • Implemented capability to automate the acquisition and reporting of all syndicated data from multiple third party vendors resulting in significant cost savings to the company, as many in house business units were duplicating the expense.
  • Deployed a single reporting platform that replaced multiple legacy reporting tools. Prior to delivery, no single version of the reporting truth existed. Resulting implementation won the Computer World Best Practice Business Intelligence Infrastructure award in 2005.

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