Expertise and Approach

Our consultants are seasoned specialists with deep content expertise. We have worked with companies as varied as Merck, Kimberly-Clark and Affymetrix in diverse environments and cultures, running projects in Asia, Europe, Middle East, New Zealand, South Africa and South America. Shepherd Payne provides highly effective solutions without the expense of a large consulting staff that force-fits consultants to perform unnecessary work. Further, we are not constrained by project size or duration, and truly design our engagements to fit our clients' needs.

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Key Shepherd Payne focus areas include:

• Operational strategy
• Global business process transformation
• Product development & commercialization
• Innovation management
• High-throughput clinical development
• Commercial operations and launch readiness
• Clinical operations (study, supply, metrics, data)
• Clinical trial strategy
• Non-interventional (observational) studies
• Manufacturing process development & optimization
• Quantitative / statistical / analytical support
• Taguchi Design of Experiments (DoE)

• Commercial and clinical supply chain
• Lean, Six Sigma and Operational Excellence

• Quality systems and regulatory requirements
• R&D operations, technology transfer and scale-up
• Research and technology management
• Organizational design and role aligned governance models
• Enterprise and regional based portfolio and life-cycle management
• Program, resource, portfolio and talent management
• Change management, leadership and decision making models
• Product development and innovation management
• Quality by Design (QbD), Design for Six Sigma (QFSS)