title: Innovation and the workplace.
abstract: With the increasing pressures on the pharmaceutical industry to meet the challenges of producing more drugs, in less time and at lower costs, all aspects of streamlining the process of discovery and development need to be addressed. The author discusses how a design process that focuses on process change, on key workplace characteristics and on setting clear performance targets will create the right framework for delivering innovative solutions to workplace design for drug discovery. He explains how, in an industry where time means more money than one likes to think about, such solutions will help the pharmaceutical community optimize performance and reduce costs.