Risk management is a concern for all pharma companies, and the increasing rate of adoption of new approaches, such as risk-based monitoring, will keep it a concern for years to come. Of course with any new approach comes the resistance to change from employees and managers who don’t trust the new approach, feel it will make their jobs more difficult, or even worse, eliminate their jobs altogether. Change management can be one of the most difficult tasks for pharma executives to oversee. Consultant Angie Maurer’s job is to help them manage it more effectively. “It seems to take executives and personnel in the pharma industry a long time to accept, adapt, and deal with change within their organizations,” she says. “Everyone knows the pharma industry tends to be rather conservative, and that is as true today as it has always been.”
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