This playbook explores how clinical trial sponsors can modernize collaboration from site selection through activation and ongoing site engagement. The clinical trial industry has long recognized the problems in sponsor-site collaboration. The next phase for faster trials is execution, and the many challenges sponsors face are rooted in manual processes for site engagement or reliance on clinical systems that were adopted for the wrong reasons. Forward-looking organizations are beginning to treat sponsor-site collaboration as a strategic operating capability. This playbook explores how sponsors can modernize collaboration from site selection through activation and ongoing site engagement, while building a more coordinated operating model for faster, more reliable trials. Innovative tools and processes can make it easier for sponsors and sites to work together. Highlights include: The risks behind manual trial workflows and solutions that provide the best opportunity to reduce site burden. The friction points and collaboration workflow impacts that create startup delays. A five part roadmap for modern sponsor-site collaboration.
