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Organizational Strategy in Practice

By Sue Iannone A struggling L&D organization can exhibit a range of characteristics. Maybe its staff feel overworked and under-resourced. Perhaps it operates […]

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Taking the Pain Out of the Medical, Legal, & Regulatory Review…Maybe

By Sue Iannone “It’s like pulling teeth.” “I’d rather stick a needle in my eye.” “About as much fun as a box of […]

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Avoiding POA Chaos, Part II: Planning Best Practices

By Sue Iannone Famous general and former President, Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is […]

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Avoiding POA Chaos, Part I

By Sue Iannone According to Dictionary.com, “chaos” is defined as “a state of utter confusion or disorder; a total lack of organization or […]

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Are You a Performance Consultant…or an Order Taker?

By Sue Iannone Imagine this: You are a training manager in the L&D Department of a biotech company, supporting the leading brand. The […]

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Proving Your Worth: Training Business Reviews

By Sue Iannone In life sciences, business reviews are conducted frequently in the commercial areas, especially sales, marketing, and market access. During these […]

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When Business Objectives Trump Learning Objectives

By Nathan Pienkowski Should a Learning and Development (L&D) organization deliver above and beyond the call of duty, going “all in” to apply […]

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Get What You Need: How to Build a Business Case

By Sue Iannone We all…well, maybe some of us…remember the chorus lyrics from a famous Rolling Stones song: You can't always get what […]

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How to Do Less with Less

By Sue Iannone Let’s start this article by establishing one fact up front: That old cliché about how we all should “do more […]

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Getting Out of Today and Into the Future

By Sue Iannone and Garry O'Grady Part One in a Series The biopharmaceutical industry is not known for dull stability. Think about it… […]

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Bull City Blue is an end-to-end learning agency created to address the needs of training and development organizations within the life sciences industry. Bull City Blue is headquartered in Durham, N.C. and is a subsidiary of BCL, a full-service learning development and consulting agency.