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EDITOR'S NOTE LSL LIFESCIENCELEADER.COM THE CMO LEADERSHIP AWARDS 2016 4 an Outsourcing Pharma Conference during the year, the CEO of a CMO said, "I've been astonished at the use of the word 'partner' more recently; sponsors actually mean it." Another CEO put it this way: "We're reaching an interesting point where the service- provider industry needs to make a decision: Are we going to lead?" Moving to this year's CMO Leadership Awards, and this supplement to Life Science Leader , we've listened carefully to both sides of the sponsor-provider dialogue. For the first time, we've partnered with Industry Standard Research (ISR) to home in on the specific attributes the bio and pharma indus- tries value in their CMOs: quality, reliability, capabilities, expertise, and compatibility. We've also taken into account that while all sponsors look for these qualities in some manner and degree, your needs and approach vary more than ever. To capture this, we've broken down the awards into the sponsor categories of: Big Pharma, Small Pharma, or Overall (combined Big and Small Pharma). There's more. We've also made an adjust- ment from perception-based metrics to experiential data, ensuring our results are truly aligned with direct sponsor experience. This year, award recipients can see more clearly reflected in their crystalline awards words like "partner" and "leader." Is there an overriding focus in outsourcing in 2016? If I had to pick one, I'd go back to a fundamental activity: project management. More outsourcing , more complicated products and processes, wider global and multivendor partnerships, and extended supply chains all call for elevated and enlightened project management. One of our articles in this issue (p. 28) dives into this subject. (Spoiler alert: we draw an unexpected conclusion.) I hope you'll enjoy all the articles within, as well as reading the lists of who's the best of the best in our industry. I'd also like to send out a special thank-you to Janssen's Remo Colarusso for working with me on the feature article. l hat do biotechnology and pharmaceutical sponsors want most from their contract development and manufacturing ser vice providers? Today that answer might be summed up as: "White- and Blue-Collar Leadership." Allow me to explain. During last year's CMO Leadership Awards ceremony, I thought the following: "Despite the vast industry experience and brainpower of the scientists, engineers, managers, and executives in this ballroom, the service providers gathered here represent the real blue-collar workforce of the biopharma industry " — blue collar in every positive connotation of the term. As I explained in a subsequent article, these are the hard-working men and women, often unbeknownst and unacclaimed, who wake up each day around the globe to keep projects and materials flowing and provide the services and solutions the rest of the industry – and patients ultimately – count on. Along with the great men and women at their sponsors' facilities, these are the people who help put the "make" in "making drugs." As the year progressed, though, we increas- ingly heard biotech and pharma sponsors talk about obtaining a higher level of strategic leadership from their service providers and suppliers. CMOs should now feel confident, sponsors are saying, and add "white-collar" leadership to overall relationships, as well as guidance for specific projects. In fact, at LIFE SCIENCE LEADER 5340 Fryling Rd., Suite 300 / Erie, PA 16510-4672 Telephone: 814 897 7700 / Fax: 814 899 4648 WWW.LIFESCIENCELEADER.COM SVP OF PUBLISHING/PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT Jon Howland / Ext. 203 jon.howland@lifescienceconnect.com VP OF CONTENT Ed Hess ed.hess@lifescienceconnect.com EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Dan Schell / Ext. 284 dan.schell@lifescienceleader.com CHIEF EDITOR Rob Wright / Ext. 140 rob.wright@lifescienceconnect.com EXECUTIVE EDITORS Wayne Koberstein wayne.koberstein@lifescienceleader.com Louis Garguilo louis.garguilo@lifescienceconnect.com Ed Miseta ed.miseta@lifescienceconnect.com Trisha Gladd trisha.gladd@lifescienceconnect.com SENIOR DIRECTOR OF PUBLISHING Perry Rearick perry.rearick@lifescienceconnect.com VP OF AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT Michael Bennett michael.bennett@lifescienceconnect.com PRODUCT DIRECTOR Jenell Skemp jenell.skemp@lifescienceconnect.com PROJECT MANAGER Megan Rainbow megan.rainbow@lifescienceconnect.com DIRECTOR, LIFE SCIENCE TRAINING INSTITUTE Bill Beyer bill.beyer@lifescienceconnect.com PUBLISHER, CLINICAL & CONTRACT RESEARCH Sean Hoffman / 724 940 7557 / Ext. 165 sean.hoffman@lifescienceconnect.com PUBLISHER/BIOPHARM & LAB Shannon Primavere / Ext. 279 shannon.primavere@lifescienceconnect.com PUBLISHER/OUTSOURCING Cory Coleman / Ext. 108 cory.coleman@lifescienceconnect.com ENGAGEMENT MANAGER Kevin Morey kevin.morey@lifescienceconnect.com GROUP PUBLISHER/OUTSOURCING Ray Sherman / Ext. 335 ray.sherman@lifescienceconnect.com BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Mike Barbalaci / Ext. 218 mike.barbalaci@lifescienceconnect.com SR. ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Scott Moren / Ext. 118 scott.moren@lifescienceconnect.com PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Lynn Netkowicz / Ext. 205 lynn.netkowicz@jamesonpublishing.com MANAGE SUBSCRIPTIONS 814 897 9000 / Ext. 315 subscriptions@jamesonpublishing.com @ Louis_Garguilo linkedin.com/in/louisgarguilo facebook.com/LifeScienceLeader White- And Blue-Collar Leadership In Pharma Outsourcing M A R CH 2 01 6 CM O S U PPLE M E NT L O U I S G A R G U I L O Executive Editor W

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