Required: New Ways to Organize Research

At some point (soon), medical research will have to invent new types of organizations because the existing ones are just overwhelmed. Read the whole article for lots of detail about what will be required.

Bio-IT World: Accelerating Intuition, 2008-May-7, by Catherine Varmazis

John Reynders, VP and CIO at Johnson & Johnson (J&J), said the “absolutely insane” amount of data being generated in the life sciences, and the heterogeneity of that data, require new ways of working and connecting with people. Specialists in all fields need to work in the “white space” between fields, and to collaborate more with colleagues within, and partners beyond, their organizations. “The company that thinks it’s sufficient to connect great minds behind its walls – well, it won’t be a great company for very long,” Reynders said.