Embracing change management in pharmaceutical sales: Ensuring smooth transitions amidst industry evolution

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Embracing change management in pharmaceutical sales has become an essential competency for sales leaders. As a sales performance consultant who has worked with pharmaceutical and life sciences companies for over two decades, I’ve seen firsthand how the pace and frequency of change within pharma organizations has rapidly accelerated, making adaptation a constant requirement. Pharmaceutical sales reps now operate in an environment of perpetual fluctuation, with frequent concurrent changes across products, regulations, technologies, processes, and competition. They’re looking to their sales leaders to help them through the confusion and complexity so they can perform at the levels they are being held accountable for.

Change management: An essential competency for sales leaders

The ongoing reality of constant change within the pharma industry means sales leaders can no longer view change man…

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Staying on the compliant side of change control regulations

Proper change control is essential to ensure the quality and safety of medical devices. [Photo courtesy of MasterControl]

Medical device change control regulations have a lot of boxes to check.

By Matt Lowe, MasterControl

Given the dynamic nature of medical device development, changes are inevitable.

Change control focuses on managing changes throughout a product’s life cycle as a part of current good manufacturing practices (cGMP). Extensive regulations ensure that changes don’t put the safety, reliability and performance of products at risk. Therefore, it’s critical that medical device manufacturers adhere to all of the regulatory change control guidelines.

This article provides four tips for effectively managing change control to remain compliant with cGMP regulations.

1. Know that regulatory changes are coming

The FDA is close to aligning the current cGMP requirements of its Quality…

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