After highly successful growth in the ‘90s, the life sciences industry faces multiple hurdles in its attempt to return to the glory days Though these are challenging times, for companies willing to make the commitment, the opportunities are abundant—aging population, unmet medical needs, and emerging markets, to name a few. To be successful, there are multiple critical success factors that must be met, including deployment of industrialized business processes, institutional decision-making and ownership. Risk management and compliance strategy, strategic sourcing, and creation of an enterprisewide data strategy all need to be met head on.

Our position is simple—we help your organization by making it better at what it does well. For example, core capabilities in scientific functions are often best handled by our clients. But our experience and track record across the value chain, spanning from early development through registration and post commercialization, enable us to support you by providing complementary skills and capabilities. And given that we can reach out to the larger Cognizant organization for technology capabilities, we have a distinct advantage of being able to provide end-to-end services.

Services and Solutions

Customer Impact

• For a top five global pharmaceutical company, we ran a program management office that ensured coordination with integration teams to achieve a 20%+ efficiency over three years.
• For a major European pharmaceutical company, we facilitated the development of a new vision for the clinical operations organization that led to a comprehensive IT roadmap and service catalog for the company.
• We developed a data strategy for a global pharmaceutical company’s sales and marketing organization and successfully linked it to the client’s business strategy.