Change Management and Merit Solutions: Perspectives and Practices
You’ve been called to a meeting to kick off an ERP implementation. Executives are present, along with divisional leaders and a handful of the company’s brightest employees. The discussion kicks off with an executive who states: “Over the next 6 to...
The Microsoft Cloud for Biotech and Pharma Manufacturers Just Got Better
Merit for Life Science just became more powerful because Microsoft today announced a new level of integration coming between Dynamics 365 (D365) and Teams. This includes Teams integration with Dynamics 365 sales, marketing, customer service,...
Why ERP Implementations Fail
Many of the biotech or pharma companies we work with start the relationship by asking why there is so much information out there on the high failure rate of ERP implementations? Why do we believe ERP implementation success rates are so low?...
For Incident Management, Pick Your Course and Complete It
Distance runners know that the first objective of a race is to complete it, and the second is to respect the integrity of the course. Then they work backward from those two objectives to prepare for pace, considering variables such as weather,...
Low Code/No Code: In Life Sciences, Extend Carefully
The old joke is that you can do anything with software if you have enough money. With an army of programmers, it was basically true. But now there is a new way to develop software quickly and with much lower investment: low code/no code...
Is Your Data Estate Maximizing its Property Value?
When I hear biotech and pharma executives talk about their company’s “data estate,” I know the Microsoft and Amazon people have been meeting with them. I also think of the little British man who ran the estate on Magnum PI. His shtick was to be...