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InnovationWell launches Drug Safety Knowledge Management program

Drug Safety Spring Meetings Announcement:

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The new InnovationWell site is now open at innovationwell.net The community, site and activities of this community of practice have stemmed from a program which has been focused for the past 18 months around knowledge management issues and approaches in the life science and pharmaceutical industries. InnovationWell is a member-based community for those with interests in integrated knowledge-based innovation and best practices in the pharmaceutical and life sciences industry.

A new Drug Safety program is now open on InnovationWell which focuses around discussion of strategic knowledge issues and best practices in Drug Safety and building a Drug Safety Body of Knowledge. The program will be following our InterAction meeting format where presentations, discussions and networking occur in executive face-to-face meetings (25-26 April in Philadelphia, USA, and 30-31 May in Basel, Switzerland) and additionally in the InnovationWell collaborative environment, before, during and after the meetings. A more extensive announcement is included here in the attached pdf to this post.

Our existing programs in knowledge management in pharma R&D and knowledge integration across the life science product life cycle will continue in 2005 supported by the InnovationWell collaborative environment and additionally in InterAction meetings running in the Autumn. Further program announcements on the Autumn meeting will be posted in this blog and through the InnovationWell Web site.

Barry Hardy

Douglas Connect

KM Institute now offering knowledge management training & learning support in Switzerland

Despite its small size, Switzerland is a significant contributor to global economic output, and particularly so in knowledge-intensive industries such as pharmaceuticals, precision engineering and financial services where it has global leading companies. KM Institute (TM) Switzerland has been established to provide these industries world-leading certified knowledge management training and learning support combined with competency-based and on-the-job performance-support.

Douglas Connect, a Swiss business located in the vicinity of Basel, now acts as local training program & service provider for the International Knowledge Management Institute (TM) and will be launching the certified KM management training of the Institute in Basel later this Spring. "The combination of the unrivalled comprehensive breadth & high quality of the KM Institute’s knowledge-based learning programs convinced us of the value offered to local Swiss knowledge managers", said Barry Hardy, coordinator of Douglas Connect’s KM activities, "the first KM training running with Douglas Weidner in Basel in early June promises to be a unique experience; Weidner’s materials and stimulating approach combined with the input of participants to workshop discussion topics should provide for a great learning experience for all involved!"