Beyond just these fledgling biotechs, bigger Pharma companies can benefit from having an external SAB aimed at bringing much-needed open market, objective input into the quality and robustness of internal programs.

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So, early last year we decided to put our community at the forefront of our business -integrating them into the product development and marketing workflow with the view of creating even better quality products for which our audience had tangible input.

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He said that Deming was more focused on the statistical analysis of quality whereas he, Juran, was more concerned about the human input, teaching people how to introduce what he called CWQM (company-wide quality management).

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