Gary Pisano proves that process innovation-not just product innovation-can be the key to competitive advantage. In a multi-year study of pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms, he shows that developing distinctive and superior process technologies can lower costs, improve quality, and increase flexibility. The Development Factory will help companies unlock the potential of process development and create and implement new capabilities.
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Gary P. Pisano is the Harry E. Figgle Jr. Professor of Business Administration and Head of the Technology and Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School.
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In the final course in my graduate program, this was required reading to complete the program. With a background in medical and electronics instrumentation, I was not thrilled. Secondly, I was puzzled that anyone at Harvard would spend over a year to write a book with a fairly narrow audience--the right way to develop new products for the pharmaceutical industry. I wasn't disappointed. The development of new products in this sector is a different landscape from typical product development and manufacturing--a strategic chess game where timing, investment, weighing uncertainty and gutsy decision making are everything in the successful development on new products going through clinical trials. Pisano insights are good advice. If you an exec or manager, this would not be one of those popular business books. If you are in the medical sector, this should be part of your outside reading to avoid the potholes of new product development. Highly recommended.
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first pilot batch, process development capabilities, commercial manufacturing site, biotechnology sample, process research chemists, manufacturing startup, process research phase, lead time performance, commercial manufacturing plant, process development scientists, process development performance, process development group, process research group, process design quality, process development projects, kilo lab, rapid process development, hidden leverage, established pharmaceutical firms, process development cycle, process development strategy, chemical projects, biotechnology projects, process development strategies, process development activities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eli Lilly, United States, Boston Consulting Group, North Carolina, Hours Expended Prior, Process Pilot Tech, Research Development Mfg, Unit Proc, Year Source, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Publications Ltd New!
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- Operations Management: A Systems Approach Through Text and Cases by Charles John Constable in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Human Problem Solving by Allen Newell in Back Matter
- Product Design and Development by Karl Ulrich in Back Matter
- Inside the Black Box: Technology and Economics by Nathan Rosenberg in Back Matter
- Behavioral Theory of the Firm by Richard M. Cyert in Back Matter
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- Pharmaceutical Process Scale-Up (Drugs and the Pharmaceutical Sciences) by Michael Levin on page 77, and page 93
- Running the Successful Hi-Tech Project Office (Artech House Technology Management Library) by Eduardo Miranda on page 15, and page 169
- Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms: Disperse Systems, Volume 3 by Herbert Lieberman on page 378, and page 393
- Pharmaceutical Process Scale-Up, Second Edition (Drugs and the Pharmaceutical Sciences) by Michael Levin on page 111, and page 527
- Investitionen in chemische Produkte und Prozesse: Umgang mit Risiken bei der unternehmungswert- und ökologieorientierten Beurteilung innovativer Projekte (German Edition) by Gerald Bode in Back Matter
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