We're all making decisions to optimize our studies. Optimizing project plans across different studies presents further challenges. But how to increase the overall portfolio of a company given its limitations leads yet another set of challenges. Knowing how decisions are taken at this top level helps to understand the bigger picture and why this sometimes implies sub-optimal decisions on a study or compound level.

Another big learning from these complex interactions are the influencing skills needed to work with senior and diverse teams.

Only a few statisticians in the industry work in these areas and Andreas Sashegyi is of these.