Flexibility and balance are needed in every aspect of life, and the same goes for companies and managers allowing both in person and remote work. Both methods of working have benefits, and too much of...

There are many things to do in order to ensure that proper communication takes place in the workplace. Although the following step may seem to be counterintuitive, it is extremely important and effect...

Although I myself have not worked as a project manager, my work experience has allowed me to be extremely familiar with the work of a project manager. I worked with some project managers over the cour...

From my work experience, project management is an essential part of any successful working experience. Project management skills of cooperation, team work, conflict resolution, and being approachable ...

I believe leadership qualities are a combination of innate characteristics and learned characteristics. However, the greater portion belongs to learned behavior. If we are speaking with regards to chi...

There are several differences and similarities between medical devices and pharmaceutical drugs. Now, whether a pharmaceutical product is a medical device (drug delivery systems) is a separate convers...

Based on my experience working in the field, I prefer to work in small teams. This allows for everyone to get to know each other quickly and easily, while recognizing different strengths and weaknesse...

From my experience of working in the biomedical industry, conflicts between team members can be the reason a team becomes stronger or weaker. For example, if a team overcomes an internal conflict, the...

It is clear that the main priority of the stakeholders is profit and reaching finance goals, while the customers value product safety and affordability. While there are some times where the values of ...

There are several obvious things that companies would agree to keep confidential with a consulting firm. These include parts pertaining to intellectual property, client information, financial data, an...

Verbal contracts seem like a tricky part of the legal processes. There are several ways to ensure that verbal agreements are kept, though it may be difficult. There can be witnesses present at the ini...

It seems absolutely necessary to have arrangements for how operations if something unfortunate were to happen to me as the owner or CEO of the company. Unless there is a company policy, prior agreemen...

Unfortunately, in this organizational structure, there seems to be several issues. From the favoritism to the lack of concern for quality and regulatory needs, there needs to be a re evaluation of how...

Upper management and middle management often fall into the blame game when it comes to the state of a company, especially a biomedical device company. As other posts have mentioned, upper management i...

The original post in this thread raises an important point, but I believe there is a simple answer. While assembling a project team, it is important to have people with a variety of skills, strong kno...