The Laszlo Letter

The Changing Role of CIOs

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you have no doubt noticed that I have not posted anything since the 8th of April. Please accept my apologies for this with the explanation that both business and personal commitments have severly limited the time available for "extra-curricular" writing. This post will be no different since I'm not going to write an original post.

However, I am pleased to report that I was given a fair amount of space in the latest issue of Pharmaceutical Executive Europe. I took that opportunity to focus on two topics:

1. the changing and ever more important role of the CIO in our industry, and
2. three key challenges that CIOs must focus on over the next few years

So, if you click on the "space" hyperlink above, you will get a pretty large dose of my opinions. As always, I will welcome your comments on them either here or the Pharmaceutical Executive Europe web site.

Software for Clinical Development

Having recently particiapted in two DIA meetings, I thought it would be useful to pull together a spreadsheet of vendors offering software used in clinical development. This can serve as the basis for a more comprehensive list built and maintained by reader input.

For now, the list is kept in an Excel spreadsheet:

Download ClinDevSoftwareVendors-April2008.xls

Please note that I consider this spreadsheet as the intellectual property of The Laszlo Letter. In other words, it is copyrighted. You may use it as a reference document but not benefit from it in any financial manner or reproduce it without my permission.

To contribute new items or update those that already exist, just use the comment function of the blog. I will take it from there and post new versions of the spreadsheet as necessary.

Thanks in advance for your help.