Advisory Role

Customer-centric companies develop a holistic view of each customer s life-cycle needs (perceived benefits as well as the cost of providing it) as shown in Table 2.1. 

Customer orientation Transactions Work with customer to solve both short and long term issues 

Solutions Multiple use of products off Bundles that combine product, service, and 

Customer interface Focus on product economics Focus on customCT ecrmomics 

Value creation Product features, new applications Customizing for total solution 

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Compromises have to be struck between the different requirements and the restrictions implied. A deep knowledge of the actual task is essential, and for this reason it not possible to provide prescriptive prevention measures such measures have to be worked out by those involved in the actual processes of a task. The security person appointed can only act in an advisory role, although it is likely to be his responsibility to initiate the preliminary risk evaluation. 

The reports constitute a complete set of recommendations for the ultracentrifugation problem posed to SpinPro. Thus, SpinPro performs the advisory role of an ultracentrifugation expert interviewing the investigator for the problem description, offering expert advice on the most appropriate centrifugation procedure, and finally, comparing alternative procedures. 

We would like to thank our Lilly colleagues Kenneth E. Kramer Albert J. Clinton, Dr. Alvin Melliere, Dr. Robert van Lier, and Steven Spaulding for their many contributions to the development of bromethalin. We would also like to recognize the important advisory role played by Dr. William B. Jackson (Bowling Green State University). 

The medical department is usually headed by a senior pharmaceutical physician (the medical director), who is supported by a team consisting of other physicians, graduates and administrative staff. The non-medical graduates are normally pharmacists or life scientists and, in addition to providing informed scientific input, may look after some administrative areas. In some companies they, rather than the physicians, may be responsible for staff management, thus allowing the physicians to concentrate on their advisory roles. 

For many physicians and non-clinical scientists working in industry, particularly in early clinical development, their involvement with marketing will be peripheral to their roles. For those in medical advisory roles it will be central. My comments below are addressed more to those in an advisory role. 

Extrapolations of therapeutic index and toxicity data from animals to humans are reasonably predictive for many but not for all toxicities. Seeking an improved process, a Predictive Safety Testing Consortium of five of America s largest pharmaceutical companies with an advisory role by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been formed to share internally developed laboratory methods to predict the safety of new treatments before they are tested in humans. In 2007, this group presented to the FDA a set of biomarkers for early kidney damage. 

On this occasion, it is particularly appropriate to consider Gordon s contributions to scholarship and scientific publishing. He has served in an editorial or advisory role to every key journal concerned with our science. With E. W. Abel and G. Wilkinson, he conceived of and coedited the preeminent and essential reference works in our field, Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry, editions 1 and 2. 

Functioning in governance and advisory roles local board or committee member. Service Area Health Professional Liaison, National Nursing Committee, national Board of Governors (American Red Cross, 2007c)... 

Complementary Medicines Evaluation Committee (CMEC). The CMEC was established in 1997 a Traditional Medicines Evaluation Committee (TMEC) had been established by the Minister to provide expertise for the evaluation of non-prescription traditional medicines and advice on their registration. Whereas ADEC and MEC had a long history prior to the enactment of the Therapeutic Goods Act, 1989, there was no committee to handle traditional and alternative medicines which came under regulation for the first time with this Act. Although the TMEC was not a statutory committee, its role was to advise on quality and manufacture of traditional and alternative medicines, their pharmacognosy and toxicology and their clinical use. In practice, the committee formed a broad advisory role rather than a substance-by-substance evaluation role. 

The Central Medical Pharmaceutical Committee (CMPC) has an advisory role which consists of drawing up and monitoring a list of nonregistered indications and medicines that satisfy these conditions. Besides the above-mentioned criterion, the Committee is also of the opinion that the medicine to be evaluated must be reasonably assumed not to qualify for registration for economic reasons, for instance, because it is no longer protected by a patent. If the product can be prepared by a pharmacist, the insurance fund is advised to reimburse only this product. Table 5 presents the medicines and indications reviewed by the CMPC. 

The advisory role of the CHMP in the EU is similar to the advisory role of the Committee on the Safety of Medicines in the UK. 

To encourage high and uniform standards of education in pharmacy throughout Canada by assuming an advisory role for development of policies and standards used for the accreditation of programs of pharmaceutical education. 

Sunilarities are also evident in the role of national research institutes for health and safety, which sqipear to play a strong, independent, advisory role in the setting and adoption of OELs in most countries. 

Prominent in the Inspectorate s official policy is a movement away fimn its former advisory role, whether at a shop floor level or system level, The new actors in the field of OHS-regulation - the OHS services - are supposed to take over this role. With the introduction of an administrative fine as an instrument of enforcement, the Inspectorate is considered to have confined itself even further to the role of OHS police . 

Generally, the safety practitioner is in a better position to positively influence the organization if a purely advisory role is maintained. It permits him or her to help line managers perform a better job by becoming part of their team and also helps avoid conflicts. This approach squarely places the responsibility for safety on the shoulders of line management. If an unsafe condition occurs, the line manager cannot reasonably state that he is unaware of the condition. It s his job to be aware of unsafe conditions and have them corrected. 

We want women who take time off for childbirth to come back to work in any capacity they can, says Trinka Burdick. Many work part-time. However, it may not be practical to manage a project on a part-time basis, so their responsibilities may need to change. Some women take on a more technical or advisory role, for instance. ... 

The EU is a complex organisation which contains a number of salient institutions with various executive and advisory roles. 

Many organisations employ specialists to assist them in meeting their healtii and safety responsibilities. These specialists may be employees or consultants brought in to help the organisation meet its safety obligations. It is important that their advisory role is imderstood and that they are not used as a check on line management. Those in control must always be accoxmtable for safety in their area of responsibility. As specialists, they should have no executive authority and their role should be seen as providing a 3A service - Advice, Assistance, and Assessment. 

In the case of laws and legal regulations the situation is in fact more complex. It is the Ministry and its legal experts who formulate the rules and the parliament or Minister who approve them. The inspectorate has formally only an advisory role. In practice, however, it is the inspectorate which determines the content of the legal rules. This is certainly the perception in the field, and this shorthand will be used in most of this chapter. 

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