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Vision for Medical Affairs 2030 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #874 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #874 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Mikael Blomkvist Credit: Mikael Blomkvist Credit: Olia Danilevich I had mentioned in my last post a recent article by McKinsey, published in October 2023. The link appears at the end. The article develops a vision for Medical Affairs till 2023 and sets five priorities for greater patient impact. I shall quote those points from the article which are more relevant to our scenario. It is known that innovation in digital technology and biological sciences has been exploding at an exponential rate, and that both fields are integrating well to deliver unprecedented result...

Driven by Data – Last Part – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #663 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #663 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. This blog series is based on a report from McKinsey Digital, link of which appears at the end. Continued from Previous…… Point #4 – Data operating model treats data like a product Presently, the data is stored by individual departments and functions and protected as their property disregarding whether it is confidential or not. In this way, the data is split in so many ways that an overall sense cannot be made of it. There is a lot of duplication also which happens due to silos already present in most organizations. The IT department neither has control over data nor has acce...

Digital Communication Challenges III – Blog Post #457 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #457. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Continued from Previous…… Before the emails and WhatsApp messages rob us of our sanity, we urgently need to consider the following steps. WhatsApp Forwards Should be Stopped Please do not forward any message even if it says you will burn in hell if you do not send it to ten people. Hold your ground. Do not let WhatsApp take control of your life. Only messages with a public safety alert may be shared; all others should preferably be discarded and deleted right after seeing. WhatsApp messages are an invasion of privacy. No one has the right to keep sending unwanted bulk of messages, no matte...

Digital Communication Challenges II – Blog Post #456 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #456. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Continued from Previous…… Challenge #3 – English Language People of the former English colonies have inherent complex about English language. True, that the English ruled us for over two hundred years and our ‘freedom period’ is only about seventy years. Does this mean that we have to wait for another hundred years to get complex-free? Not really. The way things are going, we are becoming more complexed and more English-oriented with every passing day. I have seen similar phenomenon in former French colonies. English language in Pakistan is a recipe for success for some and a matter of hear...

Digital Communication Challenges I – Blog Post #455 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #455. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. It is not just about Work from Home, or working across continents, or working from one city to another, or even working from one location to another within the same city; the text communication has become the most frequent mode of communication. The inboxes of everyone who is anyone is flooded with emails, most of which are copies and are of no consequence. The other common mode is text messages through WhatsApp. Both emails and WhatsApp messages cost nothing apparently and are therefore used to the hilt. Short text messages are less popular individually, but more popular commercially. The d...