Category Archives: Platform Vision

Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash Scaling a biotech platform requires getting a group of people from different backgrounds and perspectives to understand a common vision and plan. But it can sometime be difficult to recognize where the differences and gaps are. So, how can you make sure you’re communicating all the things that youContinue reading “Structuring communication with stories”

Photo by Ashkan Forouzani on Unsplash Scaling a biotech research platform requires a data platform that enables a wide range of project and functional teams to efficiently and effectively coordinate and share data. Over the last few months, I’ve been writing about different aspects of this, circling around a mental model for making decisions aboutContinue reading “Scaling Biotech: A Framework”

Image by Gerhard G. from Pixabay Scaling a biotech research program requires coordinating the flow of data between teams, functions and scientific fields, from the people that generate it to the ones that use it. You may think of data as objective and universal. But in fact, its interpretation depends on the context in whichContinue reading “Making Data Travel”

Photo by Oliver Roos on Unsplash Scaling a Biotech research program means managing and optimizing sequences of closely interrelated experiments, i.e. the Experiment Factory. A lot has been written about the value of creating short, inexpensive experiments to explore an idea. But is there ever value in making an experiment slower and more expensive? (MyContinue reading “The Experiment Cost Inflection Point”

Image by Lou Blazquez from Pixabay For a biotech organization to scale its research program, it must balance the flexibility needed to explore a variety of biological hypotheses against the consistency needed to make a collection of observations into more than the sum of its parts. The balance between these opposing forces will shift overContinue reading “The Experiment Factory”

Photo by Miguel Orós on Unsplash For a biotech organization to effectively scale its research program, its data platform must enable all users to leverage as much data as possible within their decision making context – the levers that allow them to make decisions and take action. This is easier said than done, and oneContinue reading “The Operational-Analytical Data Cycle”

Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay One of the key roles of a software team at a Biotech organization is to enable the research program to scale without sacrificing flexibility and innovation. I’ll write more about this in upcoming posts, but today I want to explore how my understanding of the scope of this workContinue reading “Designing a Chimera Data Platform”