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Roche internal patient community won Reuters Pharma Award Europe 2020

Christian Velten — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 08:40:00 +0000

I am proudly sharing that “CareRing“, the Roche internal community for employees who are patients or caregivers, has won the 2020 Reuters Pharma Awards Europe in the category ‘Most promising MVP/pilot’. The CareRing platform is homed in the Medical Customer Experience department I am heading. But I cannot claim too much contribution myself. I just [...]

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Agility – aspiration and reality

Christian Velten — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 16:22:23 +0000

‘Agility’, is without doubt a key enabler for digital transformation. Most organizations request their teams applying agile approaches to business . You might now that the agility idea originates from a revolution in IT software & tools development, where lean, flexible and iterative project management methods replaced the old way of doing projects with a [...]

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The first 5 actions for making your pharma business more digital

Christian Velten — Sun, 30 Jun 2019 15:25:51 +0000

Digital Pharma is a hot topic those days. There currently is a virtual Tsunami of articles, blog posts, guidance, opinions, etc. on how to make our business more digital. But with all the things you will read and hear, there is an obvious question. Where to start, which measures to take first? Here I am [...]

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Why digital transformation of pharma is behind other industries … and how to overcome

Christian Velten — Sun, 27 Jan 2019 18:28:33 +0000

Yes, pharma is behind most other industries in terms of digital transformation, e.g. of customer engagement and solutions. As a permanent repetition of the evident, multiple studies (example), journal articles and blog posts are frequently reporting about pharma’s digital retardation. But that is not a fair comparison. Also being part of the truth, markets for [...]

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Stay at home!

Christian Velten — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 22:10:04 +0000

A few questions to the colleague who is coming to office with a severe cold or even flu. Do you really think that coming to office sneezing and coughing would be an achievement, a sign of commitment, or in any way productive? No, sorry, to my opinion this is just an explicit mindless, inconsiderate and irresponsible [...]

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A real-life system migration from user perspective

Christian Velten — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 21:12:10 +0000

We are currently facing a system migration. From Google tools (with Gmail and Google calendar) to Office365 (with Outlook in the cloud). Allow me to publicly share my very personal user perspective on how it goes.

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Being Dave

Christian Velten — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 16:25:26 +0000

Last week I had the opportunity hearing a superb and inspiring talk by Mark Gallagher, a former Formula 1 manager. If you ever have the opportunity listening to Mark, I strongly recommend to not miss it! Mark is fantastic in showing the importance of integrated teams and their impact on motivation, quality, if not championship [...]

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The courage to talk

Christian Velten — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 11:45:55 +0000

Recently, an esteemed colleague was thanking me for “courageous openness” with a previous email by me. I have been very happy about this feedback. But I was also asking myself: is it really courageous to address important issues by mail … if there also had been opportunities to speak? Honestly spoken, talking would have been [...]

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The smart “no”

Christian Velten — Sun, 24 Apr 2016 05:31:30 +0000

You need to cancel something on someone but you do not know how? Well, there are for example the … 8 ways of saying “no” (by Darius Götsch in the German Movo magazine, issue 1 2016) The smart “no” To my personal opinion, the best way in any case is being open, transparent and honest and letting people not wait [...]

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Just the good students turn away

Christian Velten — Thu, 26 May 2011 18:06:00 +0000

In his today’s newspaper column Sebastian Turner 1, initiator of the Falling Walls Conference 2 (“leading thinkers at the intellectual frontier” ), writes about the lack of qualified professionals in Germany. As part of that he mentions studies done by Manfred Prenzel 3 from the Munich Technical University, that are worth to also be shared [...]

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