How to Communicate the Value of Digital Validation to Your Business

Critical to the success of implementing a digital validation solution, is the ability to communicate its business and financial benefits, in order to gain get executive buy-in.

Projections suggest that 2023 will be the busiest year yet for validation activity. According to the 2022 State of Validation report—a validation industry survey and study that sheds light on the practices, trends, and pitfalls of the global validation industry—both workloads and budgets are forecast to increase this year.

The majority of survey respondents also stated that implementing a digital validation system would provide the biggest opportunity for improvement of validation at their organization.?

How to Engage Senior Management

?Senior stakeholders in Quality Assurance (QA), IT, and Finance act as both key decision-makers and budgetary controllers for digital validation projects. As such, it is critical to gain the understanding and support of this wider group when seeking to implement a new digital validation system.

The key to engaging senior management and gaining buy-in is explaining the benefit in terms of the key interests of the function you are engaging. For Validation the key benefit may be about cycle-time reduction, for Quality it may be about data integrity controls and audit trails, for Finance it may be about the return on investment and so on.

Some key interests of common stakeholders to digital validation projects, and things they need to know are listed below.

... to continue reading, head over to the?full article?on our?Kneat blog.

?