July 26, 2010
Robots
It’s time to dust off your copy of I, Robot by Isaac Asimov.
July 13, 2010
World (Cup) Cultures
In spite of the many differences among world cultures, there are at least two similarities.
July 8, 2010
Life’s Too Short
“The demand that I make of my reader,” James Joyce said, “is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works.”
July 1, 2010
A Drug Is Not a Jet Plane, or Is It?
The innovations of model-based drug development must be implemented with full attention paid to its effects on the upstream and downstream components of the larger enterprise.
June 9, 2010
Sense and Sensibilities of Science
If you want to understand process formalization, read Jane Austen.
April 28, 2010
Mesmerizing Machine
As you study the blue ball machine, it is easy to see how you can be mesmerized by a process that doesn’t actually do anything.
April 28, 2010
Disambiguation
Disambiguation means to remove ambiguity. It seems to me that the smarter the people and the more complex the topic, the more disambiguation is necessary.
March 23, 2010
Origins of Pharma of the Future℠
The pharma industry has a critical need to establish model-based drug development. The Pharma of the Future℠ (PoF) program is a research initiative to support this important enterprise transformation. In this blog entry, we tell the story of the program that inspired PoF.
February 19, 2010
Lean Production
“Lean” thinking changes the focus to optimizing the flow of products and services through entire value streams that flow horizontally across technologies, assets, and departments to customers.
January 20, 2010
Intro to Pharma of the Future℠
The pharma industry has a critical need to establish model-based drug development. The Pharma of the Future℠ (PoF) program is a research initiative to support this important enterprise transformation.
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