ProductLife Group and Gens & Associates Alliance Drives Innovation into Life Science Information Management & Compliance

Life sciences outsourcing and consulting services specialist ProductLife Group (PLG) has announced a strategic partnership with management consultancy Gens & Associates. The move is part of PLG’s plan to develop a comprehensive ecosystem of best-of-breed service providers which, together, can transform the efficiency, competitiveness and compliance of life sciences organisations in an increasingly complex and challenging market.

PLG specialises in helping pharmaceutical and cosmetics companies with their regulatory, safety, medical evaluation and monitoring and GxP quality challenges across Europe. Gens & Associates helps companies shape their information management and organisational strategies and is a leading independent advisory practice for the life sciences industry. It has been conducting incisive industry research for the past 8 years and is the primary source of regulatory information management benchmarking data.

Explaining the joint agenda, Adam Sherlock, chief of strategic development at PLG, says: “The challenges facing life sciences companies today are so intense and so wide-reaching that it is no longer plausible that a single service provider can meet all of the requirements, or do this well. The alliance with Gens & Associates marks the coming together of two thought leaders to drive real change and innovation within the industry.”

Gens & Associates’ expertise complements ProductLife’s own consultancy and advisory practice, in the areas of process optimisation, information management, organisational design, and particularly regulatory information management (RegIM) and enterprise content management (ECM). The partnership will give PLG clients access to a broad and deep international network of consultants with complementary skills. “It will extend our reach and the range of services we can provide to clients,” Adam explains. “It also gives our clients access to respected benchmarking surveys and industry insight.”

Clients of Gens & Associates, meanwhile, will benefit from PLG’s deep relationships with organisations across Europe. Of the partnership founder Steve Gens says: “Our combined client base now has double the skill base and range of services to draw on, and the comfort of knowing the partnership will last and can take their information management and compliance initiatives to the next level.”

“The timing of this partnership is significant,” PLG’s Adam adds. “Most organisations are either in the process of implementing RegIM systems, processes and infrastructure or are re-evaluating frameworks they have put in place over the past 5 years. The underlying technology has reached a level of maturity and capability now which the industry has been demanding for some time, so that there is now a real possibility that RegIM can deliver the productivity and efficiency gains it has always promised. Working together, ProductLife Group and Gens & Associates are in a position to add tangible and timely value for our combined client base in this and all of the related information compliance areas.”