Our Mission:

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Focus on the your core business needs
Offer the most practical solutions for the best value
Tailor our solutions to fit your needs
Deliver top quality in all products and services
Build solutions that actually change behavior and deliver results

Development Solutions

Development solutions, assists companies in the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology industries to successful set themselves up to deliver. The assistance provided ranges from the selection of contract service providers, to the design and implementation of robust business processes, to the development of internal staff in the delivery process.

Julie Baird

Principal

Principal Julie Baird has greater than 20 years of experience. With a background as a production director in the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry she has seen the hard realities of continuing to deliver during major changes. With over 20 years experience in organizational change and people development, Julie is a firm advocate of using a structured process to ensure success. During the last 15 years as a Development Consultant Julie has worked with many types of organizations in varied situations. Clients have ranged from small service groups with large expansion plans to large corporate organizations restructuring and downsizing.With a background as a production director in the pharmaceutical

Iain Baird

Senior Consultant

Senior Consultant Iain Baird has spent 20 years in operational management in the Pharmaceutical industry. He has directly managed API manufacturing operations for Astra Zeneca’s own products and has been involved in running contract manufacturing operations in Biologics and in DNA medicines. During the last 5 years he has managed a manufacturing and supply organization developing 3 products from preclinical through process validation while outsourcing all of the operational activities.

APPROACHES USED:

CMO SELECTION

Works with small Biotech or Pharma companies assisting them in the selection of the right contract development or manufacturing provider, designing their process development and scale up approach and assisting with the management of the contract service provider.

MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY, CHANGE AND ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT

Works with leaders within the organization, identifying the value adding parts of your business and ensuring that the organizational structure and business processes are designed to add maximum value. Will facilitate the implementation process to make the changes as effective as possible.

EXECUTIVE COACH

Works with individuals in critical leadership positions who are seeking to make a step change in their contribution. Work side by side with the individual over a series of days or intermittently over a number of weeks to instil the right habits for success.

DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS

Tailors offerings to the specific organiz,ation’s needs and uses interactive workshop formats to introduce new concepts and allow a safe environment to practice. Follow up coaching proves valuable to ensure behavioural changes are embedded long term.

FACILITATION OF COMPLEX PROBLEMS, ORGANIZATIONAL OR TECHNICAL

Leads internal teams through a variety of problem solving processes allowing them to focus their creativity on exploring the problem, rather than administering the methodology to solve it.

SUPPORTING LEADERS OF CHANGE:

Utilizes a toolkit of change management techniques to assist change leaders within organizations at any level, through critical changes. Ensures that change is approached in such a way that it becomes embedded into the organization. This approach focuses on taking the right steps at the right time, on taking others with you and on anticipating and managing the natural low in the implementation cycle of any change.

ACCREDITATIONS

EUROPEAN FOUNDATION FOR QUALITY MANAGEMENT EFQM

Internal Assessor 1997 Business excellence assessment.

DEVELOPMENT DIMENSIONS INTERNATIONAL

Certified Tutor 1996 Interpersonal skills training e.g. Performance Mgmt, Team building, Core Skills for Building Commitment,

WORK STRUCTURING LTD

Associate Consultant 1995 Work structuring & job design according to Schumacher principles.

Specialist Education in: Design of Training Courses, Kepner Tregoe Decision Making & Problem Solving, Management of Change, Business Modelling,

Clients include ICI Ltd, Torcan Chemicals, Avecia, AstraZeneca, Syngenta, Kenfine, ABI Inc, Pharmathene Inc, Back to Business, Northeastern University.