Archive for October, 2009

Multitasking Game

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

Much has been written about the evils of multitasking. If you think multitasking isn’t a big deal, if you don’t see how it affects you, try this multitasking game, similar to the Confetti Factory discussed in the book. This kind of productivity improvement is at the heart of the Billion Dollar Solution. The game hasn’t been tested on all browser types, so let me know how it works on yours. Note: the approach (click-unclick-drag rather than click-drag) is a little odd, do to how Firefox works, but hopefully not too much trouble.

I’d love to expand this into a complete diatribe about multitasking, incorporating also the Mancala Game (see BDS). Maybe one day…

Impact of Critical Chain on Drug Development at Eli Lilly

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

It is rare to get portfolio level data on the impact of Critical Chain. Steven Paul, PhD, President of Lilly Reseach Laboratories, outlines in an Interview with PharmExec the three pillars of Lilly’s business strategy. The first one is the global of adoption of Critical Chain on all Lilly’s R&D projects. He says, ”One hundred percent of the projects using critical chain methodology are on track, either at or ahead of their milestones, as compared to about 60 percent of our traditional development projects.” He also mentioned that Lilly is planning to have all projects under Critical Chain by the end of 2009. Lilly had presented early results of their Critical Chain rollout in two presentations at ProChain’s 9th annual user conference back in 2008.

Here you can find the entire interview.

If you would like to read up on this, then you might find these links helpful. Enjoy!

Indiana Economic Digest on Lilly’s new stragey

BioPharma Today on Lilly’s new strategy

The Point on Critical Chain in the Life Science Industry

The Point on the recent wave of mergers in pharma

The Point on rapid & reliable project delivery