Thrilled to announce our new Head of Technology – Dave Mills
We are thrilled to welcome Dave Mills into the IE Team as our new Head of Technology. Dave joins us with an impressive 35+ years of cross-sector technology experience.
Why ‘culture-fit’ candidates are the key to team success
It makes our day when clients say they view us as ‘one of the team’, so we thought we would return the favour and switch the focus to one of our supplier partners.
How to optimise your launch readiness reviews
Andrew, an Associate in our Launch Excellence Partner team, shares his top tips on how to optimise your launch readiness reviews.
What motivates our star employees?
Jess and Joe, our two latest star employees, share their thoughts on why they enjoy working for IE.
Launch lessons learned
Avi Leaf, an Associate in our Launch Excellence Partner team, is a whizz at providing launch team support. Here, he shares his top tip about the importance of the after-action review meeting.
Meet Andrew: His passion for launch, family and exercise
We are delighted to welcome Andrew Mooney into the IE fold. Andrew joins our Associate team with a wealth of pharma launch excellence experience.
Musings of an MD: The kindness connection
Our MD David, shares his latest thoughts in our ‘Musings of an MD’ blog series. Why the people we work with are so important.
Meet Mownika:’I am here now because IE believed in me’
Mownika is our latest winner of our Employee of the Quarter competition. Here, she explains what inspires her.
Happy New Year from Team IE! (and Topper the Romanian Rescue Pup)
Dogs have a magical effect on mental health and we encourage all our employees to look after their emotional wellbeing during these covid restricted times.
Festive Greetings from IE
As I reflect on 2020, I realise what a special year it has been. This beautiful, festive picture of IE’s Oast House office, is a timely reminder of the positive, progressive change in our working lives.
Launch Excellence Forum
In our first Inspiring Leaders in Launch Excellence Forum, some of our clients, including BMS, Leo Pharma, Sanofi Genzyme and Vifor Pharma shared their stories. We listened with eager ears.
Shining a light through disability in the workplace
To honour this year’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we had a chat with our colleague Jamie, who kindly shared some of his story.
A warm welcome to our latest new recruit – Martin!
We know it’s not easy to join a company during a lockdown. However, Martin Lambert has already impressed us with his industry knowledge, positive team spirit and inspired ideas.
How to course-correct your launch project plan when it strays off-piste
We highlight the common ‘watch-outs’ and factors that typically trigger changes to launch project plans. We also share our recommended ‘Launch Plan SOS’ strategies.
Carolyn: “Everything we do in IT is teamwork”
We are very proud to announce that Carolyn has won our latest ‘Employee of the Quarter’ – as voted for by her IE teammates:
Launch Tracking – Why it’s important to address the elephant in the room
You rush into your cross-functional launch team meeting; everyone highlights which of their activities are on-track, but how do you address those tricky overdue or at risk activities?
Happy 16th Birthday Team IE!
When Steve Marsh started IE 16 years ago, he had a gut feeling that ‘launch was the place to be’, but what he didn’t foresee was the influential impact he would have on the IE team…
Musings of an MD: Why am I here?
Why am I here? It seems like a lifetime ago…my 700-mile commute to Zurich on a Monday morning, back to Buckinghamshire on a Friday, and now my office is a mere 10m stroll.
Steve Marsh: ‘My gut feeling that launch was the place to be’
Sixteen years on from IE’s inception, the pharma launch landscape has become increasingly specialist and complex. ‘Getting launch right’ has never been more important.
IE attracts new talent as company growth accelerates in 2020
2020 is proving to be IE’s best year yet for company growth. In order to support our exciting expansion, we have recently welcomed a flurry of talented team members into the IE fold.
Six stepping stones to pharma launch project management success
Being efficient with launch project management has never been more important. If you take the right steps from the start, it can transform your whole launch.
Inspired passion: where we work
It’s the little things we miss the most. The impromptu chats by the coffee machine, the ‘go on then’ piece of cake in a team meeting, or a stroll around the apple orchards during our lunch break.
Our top 5 tips for running a virtual launch initiation and project planning workshop
Ground rules are especially important for launch initiation and project planning workshops as they include multiple key stakeholders.
IE virtual quiz fundraiser
We raised £300 for our local Hospice in the Weald. Not many people know that as hospices are not part of the NHS, they have to generate their own funds. Every little helps!
Community spirit
‘Going the extra mile’ comes naturally to our colleague Vanessa. A keen sewer, she created 35 face masks and 50 uniform bags which she donated to her local hospital.
How can technology optimise your drug launch?
Technology sits at the core of pharma launch. It empowers teams to connect across multiple workstreams, whilst aligning launch activities against the wider launch ambition.
A Smashing 2019 and A Happy New 2020
2019 has been our most successful year EVER! We’ve secured a significant number of new clients and continued to build exciting new offerings to enhance client launches.
Employee of the Month — Well done Hans!
It is no surprise that Hans has been voted Employee of the Month after some fantastic feedback following the latest release of Ignite™, our leading Launch Management Platform.
Employee of the Month — Congrats Steve!
Steve founded IE over 14 years ago and has grown it from strength to strength. He leads by example and is always there to help and support any team member no matter how busy he is.
Employee of the Month — Well done Jamie!
Clients know Jamie for his fantastic support with Ignite™ queries. He loads precious launch project plans into Ignite™ so launch teams across the world can get to work on delivering them.