Even though Non-Disclosure Agreement could have a perpetual time limit and should be theoretically protective to the commercial secrets between the two parties or within the company or institute. However, this is not powerful as a patent since it is…   Read more»

I think most of these regulations mentioned regarding gift giving to physician are reasonable. The first topic I do feel a little bit rigid because it is not consistent with basic courtesy, which in normal situation, people would at least…   Read more»

I think there are some significant differences between Verbal Agreement & Oral Agreement. Let’s firstly suppose we take the form of verbal agreement, then we need to consider how the two parties should make the verbal statement on agreement in…   Read more»

Even though I haven’t involved in any types of organizations mentioned in this week’s course, I have a preference to choose project-based organization as my ideal type of company to work for in the future. Here are my reasons. First…   Read more»

In terms of forming a project team, I think it’s important to always find people who are qualified enough to participate their roles in the project, and meanwhile, have a good sense of collaboration and moderate subordination. It’s always all…   Read more»

To start with the question: would it be more challenging to work as a project manager in either Matrix or Project-based organization? I think it will be so, based on more documents needed to practice the project management. For example,…   Read more»

To identify and prioritize the risks for a project, you need to start with looking up in the design history files for other similar projects for reference. This will cost less time when you hold meetings to have every member…   Read more»

These are very common causes for risk management mistakes. But in essence, these mistakes are due to lack of comprehensive knowledge of risk management. Here I wanna add one more mistake that could occur in risk management, which is the…   Read more»

To run a risk management meeting, always follow the cycle of assess-evaluate-manage-measure. First thing you should do is to have quality member gather all members in the project team, because it is important to make everyone get the information of…   Read more»

Design review meetings are very necessary for ensuring that the present design meets the project objectives, because without doing so, nobody would attentively look for a possible deviations that could have occurred within the design part. Besides, these meetings are…   Read more»

If the deviation happens, firstly we need to locate which one or multiple parts could possibly contribute to the failure of verification. This is very important and may be highly related to small decisions such as design dimensions, wrong analytical…   Read more»

For Design Development Plan (DDP), I think the two most important parts are quality management plan and scope management plan. Because the quality management plan will tell you how to evaluate the difference between the actual outcome and the desired…   Read more»

Verification is one of the most important steps in the design control, that it not only can address the questions of whether this is effective enough to do what potential customers want it to be, but also confirms that to…   Read more»

The minutes in the meetings are very important because of they often specify how the team members are assigned their works and the deadlines, so that the responsibilities will be clear for the members to bear in mind. For instance,…   Read more»

Design Control is a broad definition of illustrating how you monitor the design process before it goes to the FDA for auditing. There are overall 9 files that should be accomplished: Planning, Input, Output, Review, Verification, Validation, Transfer, Design Changes,…   Read more»

I think placebo group is the only scientific way to prove a drug is actually working on the human body. Since it is no longer a mystery that a psychological effect called “placebo effect” is proved to be statistically effective…   Read more»

It is very important to make sure that every pharmaceutical drugs should go through the clinical trials multiple multiple times with sampling subjects more and more extensively before they are put into the market. This is because every drugs has…   Read more»

It’s not that confusing actually, it will be easier to understand this rule when you think of this as a clinical researcher. One of the most important reasons is that there is always an overall objective you wish to confirm…   Read more»

When designing the brand for a food company or a franchise, the color red is most commonly used because according to some researches, the color red does interact with customer’s decision by evoking more impulsive emotions and demands. Of course,…   Read more»

With respect to clever uses of participation that used as a marketing strategy by some companies, I did witnessed some successful tricks that actually works for finding potential customers, and even driving them to ask for the product actively. For…   Read more»