Welcome to QBA
QBA exists to educate and develop Quality professionals on a journey to becoming Quality Business Leaders. We seek to develop the Quality function as a core business competency that leads to improvements every pharmaceutical company desires: increased profitability, enhanced reputation, and reliable, quality product supply to patients.
Our ambition is to champion a new way of thinking about the Quality role. One that is more proactive. One that creates and leads change. This will benefit companies financially, increase employee engagement, and serve patients through supply of quality medicines without disruptions.
QBA applies a practical approach to education and a mindset that includes:
- unlearning old habits that are holding back Quality leaders in a reactive, problem-solving role
- learning new skills that characterizes great Quality business leaders
Quality Business Administration’s (QBA) mission is to develop the Quality Function as a fully integrated business competency
that protects patient health and wellbeing by ensuring reliable quality product supply, helps meet company ESG* ambitions, and enhances profitability and company reputation
by advanced education and development of leaders in Quality and other key functions to become Quality Business Leaders
Quality Business Leadership Manifesto
Reimagining Quality Management in Pharma: A Call to Action
The pharmaceutical landscape is constantly evolving with medical breakthroughs and technological advancements. Yet, our quality management systems often struggle to keep pace, particularly in the face of concerning global medicines shortages.
Beyond Compliance: A New Definition of Success
Simply meeting cGMP regulations is no longer sufficient. We envision a future where quality management transcends regulatory requirements, becoming a strategic cornerstone for business growth.
Introducing the Quality Business Leader
This vision demands a new kind of leader: the Quality Business Leader. These leaders possess a deep understanding of both quality and financial principles, championing:
- Patient-Centric Focus: Every decision prioritizes patient safety and well-being. Rigorous benefit-risk analysis ensures patients have consistent access to safe, high-quality medications.
- Leadership by Ownership and Partnership: Quality becomes a shared mindset, nurtured at all levels across the organization. Leaders foster collaboration and a sense of ownership for quality excellence.
- Regulatory Collaboration: We advocate for a streamlined, global regulatory framework that encourages continuous improvement and innovation, including the implementation of new ideas and technologies.
- Streamlining for Efficiency: Quality systems and processes are simplified for enhanced effectiveness. Every step in the supply chain is optimized for the highest quality outcomes.
- Financial Advantage Through Quality: We achieve sustainable financial success while upholding the highest quality standards. Quality management becomes a driver of business prosperity.
The Quality Business Leader ensures not just sustainable product quality and supply, but also sustainable company financial performance.
A Call to Action
We are driven to disrupt the current state and forge a new path. The time for action is now! Achieving this vision demands unwavering commitment from everyone involved. Remember, every revolution begins as a vision, an idea taking shape in our minds before becoming reality. This is where it starts.
Let’s unleash the power of quality – are you in?
Anders Vinther
Anders Vinther, founder of Quality Business Administration, is a well-known and respected quality leader in the pharmaceutical industry. He has founded, grown, and merged companies, led company culture, financial and compliance turnarounds, and helped many people developing their career.
Anders founded QBA to educate and develop experts and leaders in the pharmaceutical industry to become better Quality Business Leaders and for the Quality Function to become a core business competency. He is currently collaborating with the University of Dublin to realize his dream of a Quality Business Leader Certification Program.
Anders is a Danish and USA citizen and has worked with and in many cultures. He has held many global senior leadership roles in large and small companies including Sanofi, Genentech, Roche, Novo Nordisk, AGC Biologics, Intarcia, Kronos Bio. For more than 25 years Anders has also been active in developing the Quality function as a more active stakeholder in public health activities.
Anders is a multi-passionate entrepreneur. He is founder of CMC Biologics (now AGC Biologics), Quality Business Administration, and Flying Suitcase Wines, an award-winning winery where he is the winemaker.
Why QBA
The role of Quality professionals is traditionally seen as ensuring cGMP compliance. Often a significant part of the job is spent fixing issues. The reactive role relegates Quality to being a support function rather than a proactive, fully integrated and leading operations function.
A fully integrated Quality function led by Quality Business Leaders can improve company quality and financial performance. This will also benefit patients, employees and enhance career opportunities for Quality professionals.
Making the transition to Quality Business Leadership is neither simple nor intuitive as it is fundamentally different from how the traditional role is practiced. It requires unlearning some old habits and learning 6 new specific traits.
Developing these 6 traits is what QBA uniquely offers through advanced education, mentoring, and coaching of Quality professionals. The education includes a 10 weeks certification program accredited by TU Dublin, Ireland.
Your organization’s success is at stake
Pharma companies can no longer continue with business as usual where quality leadership is concerned. It’s time to unlearn traditional ways of performing the Quality role and learn a new approach.
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