Digitalize Processes

Digitalize Information and Project Processes and Optimize Your Project Management

Major technology groups such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, IBM, and Apple enter the pharmaceutical and health market. This puts the pharmaceutical sector under pressure for change. The digitalization of processes must be pushed forward. This concerns not only production processes but information and decision processes in particular.

Numerous pharmaceutical companies are still at the beginning of their digitalization process and still rely on Excel or on unlinked PM tools which cause respective effort in adjustment and reconciliation of the use of resources. Reluctant investment in professional PM software can also be observed in other sectors: Different studies prove that especially in the field of small and medium-sized businesses more than half of the companies do not use project management software. However, the benefit of such software for business success has been proven for a long time now.

Other companies have already done their duty and have moved on to the optional enhancement of their PM processes by combining different project management methods: e.g. agile, traditional, and hybrid. This way you can optimize the use of tools for the respective project type.

Interview with Hermes Arzneimittel on the use of agile software

In the interview, Dr. Torsten Eckardt, Hermes Arzneimittel GmbH speaks to the editorial department of DIGITAL PROCESS INDUSTRIE about how the use of the agile planning and collaboration tool in PLANTA Project can contribute to the planning of development projects and to the optimization of decision processes – also beyond the current Corona crisis – when project team members work at different locations.

Here you can read the article with the complete interview, in which risks of implementation are discussed as well as benefits of the new planning tool: more transparent project processes and better communication in the project teams. The article also points out the requirements posed for employees and company management for a successful implementation of the new planning method.