Challenge
A pharmaceutical R&D organization with 500+ resources was struggled to allocate resources to their pipeline and understand which teams were not be efficiently utilized. They had no standardized data infrastructure in place resulting in manual, cumbersome reporting and stakeholder confusion when comparing plans across teams.
Approach
Scimitar collaborated with R&D leadership to define standard work taxonomies, organizational taxonomies and standard work and resource meta data with definitions across the portfolio of archetype work that functional teams manage. This enabled the development of a resource management and reporting capability.
Impact
The R&D leadership team was able to efficiently understand the work teams are performing, their utilization, and how they align to strategic priorities. Bottlenecks could be forecasted and work readjusted to meet priority timelines.
