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Sales and the 'Talent Magnet'
A lot is written about being a ‘Talent Magnet’, either as a company, or as President. It’s all good practice – listen, mentor, reward, provide clear goals and career maps. Good practice for the employer, but what about the employee?26 May 2011
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In Pharmaceuticals - Quality Matters
The great era of total quality management (TQM) emerged in the 1980’s and bloomed during the next decade, pervading all things, products, processes and people. In pharmaceutical manufacturing it defined the industry as increasingly rigorous controls were introduced for manufacturing processes and ever stricter scrutiny exercised by regulatory authorities. Certainly this was rightly so and the industry as well as regulators have learned their lessons from the past through the grave consequences of thalidomide and subsequent scandals. Clearly, the trusting patient wants to be healed and not harmed when in the hands of healthcare professionals. The trusting practitioner wants to feel secure in prescribing drugs and not have to mistrust the major instruments of his profession.
Deciphering the Burgess Shale of single-use bioreactors
One of the most famous of the Beatitudes, “The meek shall inherit the earth” (Matthew 5:5), has been likened by Darwinists to the ascendance of little furry mammals after a meteorite hit the Earth, initiated the Ice Age, and damned the almighty dinosaurs.
Small is beautiful – the future of SMEs in pharmaceutical development
In the ever-changing landscape that is pharmaceuticals, small truly is beautiful.
Increasing inventory turns – the role of Lean in the Micro QC Lab
Staying competitive in this challenging economic climate is on top of the priority list for most CEO’s and top business leadership. They no longer accept large inventories to compensate for manufacturing inefficiencies and are looking at every aspect of the production process to drive out waste. To address the inventory issue, most manufacturers have embraced the concepts of lean manufacturing made famous by Toyota and the auto industry in the 1980s. Manufacturers across industries have squeezed almost every penny possible from their manufacturing process to ensure little to no waste in materials or manpower. The results have been significant.
Beneath the surface
Surface technologies, with Lester Mills of Bachem Holding AG and Jeffrey L Mooney of Corning Life Sciences.
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