Remy Evard, CIO of the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR)

Summary: In this interview, Remy Evard discusses three principles of World Class IT with Metis Strategy. Some of the topics discussed include The unique role of an IT division that supports research scientists whose mission is discovery, as opposed to an IT division that supports a business division more responsible for revenues and costs How technology can enable global research and foster innovation by leveraging the scale of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research The way in which Remy, as a new CIO, went about gaining credibility with the business and scientists through “quick wins,” and the natural progression that the IT department followed once that credibility was established NIBR’s data initiative to manage decades of legacy information and how to ensure sound knowledge management The challenges of governance and managing a budget in a non-traditional IT environment, which requires flexibility in order to accommodate research projects The potential of new technologies, such as Web 2.0, mobile devices, and deep sequencing, to change the way in which scientific research is conducted