Top trends and priorities focus on digital acceleration and optimizing operations
We met with 36 life sciences executives to understand their top priorities and how they plan to navigate industry shifts. Life sciences executives cited growth acceleration as the top industry trend and optimizing today’s operations as their number one business priority. Technology and digital acceleration is the number one macro trend influencing their business.
Discover executives’ top trends, priorities and more.
Business models require greater agility
16% say business models are highly agile for digitization
Holistic data strategies are needed
33% cite having holistic data strategies
More can include ecosystem in cyber strategies
37% extend their cyber strategy to their ecosystem
Opportunities for closer alignment
45% cite business and IT operations as highly aligned to support strategy
Growing focus on AI
60% are investigating AI or at proof-of-concept stage
With 34% of executives producing results from their digital strategies, life sciences exceed the all-industries average of 30%. Notably, the number of executives who say their organization is producing results has almost tripled since 2022. When comparing insights from the 34% producing results (digital leaders) to those building or launching digital strategies (digital aspirants), common attributes emerge.
Digital leaders in life sciences have fewer technology challenges stemming from legacy systems and/or incompatibility.
Experience fewer
challenges from
legacy systems
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Digital leaders 9% |
Digital aspirants 33% |
Use open standards
technology stack to
facilitate compatibility
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Digital leaders 50% |
Digital aspirants 17% |
Holistically manage across
the organization’s multiple
cloud solutions
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Digital leaders 40% |
Digital aspirants 17% |
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Prepare your business for agility and growth |
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Increase data business value |
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Continue to protect your assets against cyber threats |
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Closely align business and IT strategy and priorities |
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5
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Invest in data science and AI |
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At CGI, we help life sciences organizations navigate the rapidly transforming sector by leveraging our industry expertise, advanced technology solution and our commitment to innovation. |
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