Digital Transformation in Life Sciences

IoT initiatives offer enormous opportunities for companies to adapt and remain resilient in a rapidly evolving operating environment, like the one we are currently experiencing. However, many IoT initiatives are trapped in the innovation basement, while it should really be an enterprise matter. Learn more in this whitepaper.

Even before the pandemic, work in all its forms was poised to change. Now, the future-forward script for businesses has crystallized: flexible, dataintensive and digitally oriented ways of working will be indispensable. Learn more in a new survey.

The ongoing pandemic has created a global shortage of life-saving drugs and supplies, just as social distancing has hampered the life sciences supply chain. Meanwhile, the postponement of nonessential procedures has reduced demand for products such as those used for vaccinations and ophthalmology. How should life sciences companies respond?

Cognizant has been named a leader in business process services (BPS) for life sciences companies by consulting and research firm Everest Group.

Learn how 19 businesses have increased efficiency, realized cost savings and prepared for growth by applying digital technologies to their supply chains.

Five technology trends – AI and automation, human augmentation, edge analytics/ processing, data ownership and protection, and the intermingling of products and services – are currently changing the life sciences industry.

Today, life sciences organizations (LSOs) are increasingly working with global partners and service providers in extended networks. How does this affect regulatory compliance?

How do you engage with new competence and capacity outside company walls, without risking your own business? Learn how LEO Pharma successfully opened up parts of its research for external collaboration to pave the way for drug innovation at speed. The secret? Trust, respect and engagement, with no strings attached; you simply can’t push a “big brother attitude” on true collaborations.

As a life sciences company wanted to automate a highly manual process that was becoming a quality-control risk and a regulatory burden, Cognizant helped them build a robotic process automation (RPA) solution that addresses the immediate issues – and that will now also be leveraged in other parts of the organization.

WHO believes that 80% of all visual impairment caused by Diabetic Retinopathy can be cured with regular screening and early detection. Follow our journey in developing an AI-based diagnostic tool to speed up DR identification.

Cognizant has been named one of the top providers of digital services for life sciences organizations in a new PEAK Matrix™ report by consulting and research firm Everest Group.

CFO need-to-know in a digital world:

At this time of year, many CFOs are putting the finishing touches to the budget for the next financial year. This often involves a lot of work. And it is even more difficult if they don't have the right tools, nor are able to provide the business with the right tools for planning, control and follow-up.

CFO need-to-know in a digital world:

Digitalisation affects all organisations, in all industry sectors, in several different ways. These days everyone realises that rapid change is necessary in order to be able to make maximum use of all new opportunities that are on offer. The question is how prepared your organisation is and where you should embark on the process of change?

Every New Year's Eve, we promise ourselves and our immediate circle of people how to become better persons. In your role as CFO you can also help make your organization better. To do that you have to ask yourself a number of tough questions.

As the CFO you possess information that nobody ever asks for, and if they do, it is difficult to give a quick answer. But the CFO sits on a gold mine that is seldom utilised: data, the very key to an ever more important role for the finance department.

CFO need-to-know in a digital world:

How can the finance department use analysis to promote and drive business development? It is all about utilising the goldmine that is data in a smarter way. Key performance indicators play a decisive role in realising analysis that creates more value.