Aaron Johnson, Vice President of Marketing and Customer Strategy, Accumold02.03.21
MPO reached out to members of industry to address the following question:
What do you expect will be one significant change within medtech development and/or manufacturing as a result of the pandemic?
In response, Aaron Johnson, vice president of marketing and customer strategy at Accumold, said:
We think the dynamics of collaboration will change. The world has gained a skill that post-pandemic will not go away. We are no longer afraid of seeing ourselves on video, or setting up a ZOOM, or the many other collaboration tools that have only strengthened over the last 12-months. These tools have existed for years but had only scratched the surface when it comes to utilization. We think this familiarity with online meetings, video, screen sharing, etc., in such a ubiquitous way, will translate into richer and stronger supply chain partnerships.
For example, we have been doing virtual tours for customers since about May. While we look forward to having them back in our building, we gave tours to multiple divisions, from multiple global locations, for teams or leaders who would probably never get to our facilities otherwise, but can jump on a Teams call for an hour. Customers do not typically send 15 engineers to our facility, but they can all be online with us for a time. More actual people have seen our building with virtual tours than we would usually see in a couple of years with one-at-a-time type visits. We do not have to give up these new skills and strategies just because life is back to “normal.” We just need incorporate the best of what we learned in lockdown in our post-pandemic world.
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What do you expect will be one significant change within medtech development and/or manufacturing as a result of the pandemic?
In response, Aaron Johnson, vice president of marketing and customer strategy at Accumold, said:
We think the dynamics of collaboration will change. The world has gained a skill that post-pandemic will not go away. We are no longer afraid of seeing ourselves on video, or setting up a ZOOM, or the many other collaboration tools that have only strengthened over the last 12-months. These tools have existed for years but had only scratched the surface when it comes to utilization. We think this familiarity with online meetings, video, screen sharing, etc., in such a ubiquitous way, will translate into richer and stronger supply chain partnerships.
For example, we have been doing virtual tours for customers since about May. While we look forward to having them back in our building, we gave tours to multiple divisions, from multiple global locations, for teams or leaders who would probably never get to our facilities otherwise, but can jump on a Teams call for an hour. Customers do not typically send 15 engineers to our facility, but they can all be online with us for a time. More actual people have seen our building with virtual tours than we would usually see in a couple of years with one-at-a-time type visits. We do not have to give up these new skills and strategies just because life is back to “normal.” We just need incorporate the best of what we learned in lockdown in our post-pandemic world.
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