(81f) Innovation in Challenging Times
AIChE Annual Meeting
2020
2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting
Pharmaceutical Discovery, Development and Manufacturing Forum
PD2M Plenary Session Part 1, Expecting the Unexpected: Responses to Business Disruption in the Pharmaceutical Industry (Invited Talks)
Thursday, November 19, 2020 - 9:50am to 10:00am
Innovation is uniquely dependent on supply chains as new vendors and new components need to be designed, built, prototyped, sourced. Impacts can come at us in unexpected ways ranging from government mandated staff reductions that affect productivity, communication hurdles, and challenges when multiple disciplines need to work together on-site but staff limitations preclude collaborative work environments.
Flight reductions can result in limited cargo capacity leading to schedule delays and cost escalation. Vendors may no-longer be allowed on site, or if they do require extensive, complex planning to get approval to be on-site to accomplish a previously simple 4 hr service call. Internally the team responsible for implementation innovations can become fractured in their communications, their perception of priorities and goals.
Overcoming these challenges become drivers for yet other innovations in how we accomplish work.