Episode 8: Digital Integration Between Sponsors and Contract Organizations—Advice from David Wallace
Episode notes
Pharmaceutical sponsors and their contract organizations, such as contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMOs), need to share a lot of information. But typical data sharing processes are highly manual, during both extraction and ingestion, and thus inefficient and error-prone. So how can partner organizations begin to integrate their digital systems, to create more efficiency?
David Wallace, a Senior Global Change Facilitator at BioPhorum, has spent a lot of time exploring this question. And through the curiously named DISCO program (Digital Integration of Sponsor and Contract Organizations), David facilitates collaboration among leading biopharmaceutical manufacturers, contract organizations, and IT solution providers to identify solutions.
In this interview, David shares what the group has been learning about how partnering organizations can achieve digital maturity in their collaborative operations. We discussed:
- The current state of affairs for data transfer between pharma sponsors and CDMOs (hint: It’s not that advanced)
- Who benefits most from digital integration, and how
- The challenge of seeking digital integration between organizations with different levels of digital plant maturity
- How to establish processes when you have 80 or 100 different partners—as most organizations do
- AI as both a driver for digital data sharing and a potential tool to solve the problem
- How your organization, and your partners, can advance toward greater digital integration
Listen in as David shares useful advice gleaned from real-word practitioners at biopharma sponsors and contract organizations.
Learn more & connect!
- Visit brandwidthsolutions.com for more information about our services.
- Learn more about the BioPhorum DISCO program
- Connect with our guest, David Wallace: LinkedIn
- Connect with our podcast host, Laura Bush: LinkedIn