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title: data science in the biotech research organization
tags: [odsc-east-2024]

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# data science in the biotech research organization

## mission

Why does your team exist? What is your team's north star? What are example team charter statements that you have? 

> "The {{ team name }} team exists to {{ mission goes here }}."

<!-- DSAI: "We are here to make discovery science run at the speed of thought and to quantify the previously unquantified." -->

- Profitability
- Not always direct cost savings or revenue, but along narratives: AI enables two hospitals to talk to one another, manufacturing for aerospace: inclusion of AI (scrap rates), AI enables a feature in service that our clients ask for as table stakes. Narrative that links to business  



## problem classes

What problem class(es) does your team solve? What problems does the team not work on? What are the core methodologies? What are possible frameworks by which you can organize your work? Is there an MxN matrix that you can fill out for your organization?

Tell the story of one project, hypothetical or real, that starts with a problem statement and ends with the solution built.

- Indications -- how do we decide?
- Commercial: three data science teams have challenges -- there are more than one team working on a particular thing.
    - How to delineate: point of handoff.
- Relational aspect: expectations of internal/external clients can also shape the delineation of scope.

## value

What valuable problems does your team solve within the company? How do you estimate the return on investment for working on that problem?

- Frameworks for ROI: 
    - Anna, medidata. Life sciences.
    - Build models on historical trials, deliver insights to clients to inform trial design or run models on own data.
    - ROI is the clients contract!
- What about for internal?

## challenges

What are factors that can get in the way of your team's ability to execute on its mission? Here are possible angles to consider:

- Research processes: stable or not?
- The skills that your team needs to be equipped with: are they easy to find? Do you need to compromise? Or do you need to adjust your expectations?
- What is the time horizon to demonstrating value?
- How to demonstrate value in a revenue-consuming organization?

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There will be a blog post coming: 

https://ericmjl.github.io/blog