by Val Swisher | Jun 13, 2022
There are many reasons why a component structured content management (SCM) system is superior to using a Microsoft Word document for managing your Company Core Data Sheet (CDS or CCDS). We touched upon some of the reasons in our previous blog post, The CDS is Dead!...
by Val Swisher | May 16, 2022
Raise your hand if you think content silos are ever going away. Yah. I didn’t raise mine either. After decades (literally) of talking about silos, calmly and not so calmly explaining to people why they are problematic, and advocating for their demise, I have come to...
by Regina Lynn Preciado | Apr 25, 2022
We talk a lot about the goal of enterprise content strategy for pharma: to help speed up the process of making safe, effective medicines. One part of achieving that goal is to get content through regulatory approval faster. To speed up review and approval, pharma...
by Regina Lynn Preciado | Apr 11, 2022
“We cannot change the authoring experience.” This, more than anything else, is the message we used to be told (and still hear often) when we suggest a component-based structured authoring environment for medical writers at pharmaceutical companies. The authoring...
by Regina Lynn Preciado | Mar 28, 2022
The pharma industry is no stranger to standards. Pharmaceutical companies have entire teams devoted to ensuring that all data and content is collected, created, managed, retained, and retired according to regulatory requirements. Many of those legal requirements have...
by Val Swisher | Mar 14, 2022
Vigilante content is all the content created (and often distributed) by people who are not tasked with creating content. It’s the content that someone thinks up and then writes. And then publishes or emails or prints to hand out at a conference. In essence, it is...