McKinsey Execs On Expanding Pharma’s Digital Push, Lessons From Amazon

Two McKinsey & Company executives share their views on pharma’s digital trajectory, including the role of manufacturing ‘lighthouses’ and opportunities to deploy digital and analytical tools across the entire value chain for both innovator and generic firms. They see Amazon’s playbook on leveraging digital technology as holding some interesting lessons for pharma.

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Pharma appears increasingly keen to embrace data science and digital technologies to drive operational and cost efficiencies across the enterprise.

There’s momentum in industry’s efforts to create manufacturing "lighthouses" - facilities that have successfully applied Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies to drive financial and operational impact - and a range of

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