Balancing Innovation with Solid Common Sense to Deliver Innovative Medicines

In this podcast, first presented at the 9th annual DPharm: Disruptive Innovations conference, Merck's Mark Travers presents a cornerstone discussion on Balancing Innovation with Solid Common Sense to Deliver Innovative Medicines.

Merck is walking the walk in disrupting how to restore best practices for people, products, and productivity. With a clear vision on output, their remarkable team mapped a plan to an enterprise to change operational delivery. In this R&D Leadership session hear the story on how they are delivering what they promise:

• How to plan upfront once and do it properly
• Getting the basics right and what do you need to disrupt to get there
• Significant changes on greatly improving monitoring
• The use of iPad technology to monetize CRA visits
• How monitoring reports got reduced from 8 to 2
• Building a stable workforce with strong employee engagement
• Behavior, structure, systems and tools
• Scaling it

Speaker: 

Mark Travers, PhD, MBA, VP, Head of GCTO Regions, Monitoring Excellence, Global Operations, Merck & Co.

The 10th Annual DPharm: Disruptive Innovations conference is scheduled for September 22-23, 2020. Learn more here.