Every company you work for teaches you lessons. Early on in my career, I worked for a global oil & gas company. Agility isn’t typically a word one normally associates with global companies, but this was different. This was agility on a global scale.
There are often cases where you need to analyze a large amount of data in a short amount of time in order to make a critical business decision. One advantage that global companies have is the ability to create “Follow The Sun” projects that leverage the global nature of companies, and the 24 hours in a day.
A typical project might start in The Hague, and 8 hours later transition to a team in Houston; and 8 hours after that to a team in Kuala Lumpur. In those days, only large international companies had the pipes and data centers needed to support that kind of work. But the advent of cloud computing created a level playing field that now allows any company to work with partners anywhere in the world.
At Aspen Biosciences, we’ve applied the lessons around “Follow The Sun” projects and used them to help deliver projects to customers. By partnering with companies in Nepal and India we’re able to scale up to tackle large, time-sensitive projects.
But we’re not alone in this regard. In the drug discovery industry, startups are able to leverage partners in China and Europe to advance their projects quickly using services like Scientist.com and ScienceExchange to identify the resources they need.
In addition to using the “Follow The Sun” approach, we also cloud-based tools like Pipeline to make it easier for global companies to work with partners regardless of their location. Contact us to learn more.