Infosys Lodestone: Delivering Excellence with Profitable Business Strategy

The life sciences industry is going through a turbulent phase of change derived from increased regulation, lower margins and new technology trends. Infosys Lodestone, a global management consultancy embarks upon these growing problems through their concept of Value Integration™—in order to help transform the supply chain, reduce time and cost for research and development with latest technologies and better deployment of enterprise applications.

Founded by Ronald Hafner, Jürgen Bauer and Peter Ödman, ‘Lodestone’ embodies the original compass stone used for navigation during Galileo’s time, symbolizing the company for navigating the ‘unfamiliar’ while keeping a direction and achieving a balance between objectives. Serving clients across more than 30 countries, Infosys Lodestone delivers business value through consultations on the strategies and process optimization along with IT transformations.

The company offers services including business transformation excellence—enabling organizations to deliver maximum benefits by modifying their business processes and tools; and IT excellence—assisting clients coalesce IT value to their business needs. For the life sciences and pharma sector, the company’s expertise addresses the key aspects across the core value chain from strategy through technology.

Infosys Lodestone’s assistance is enhanced upon several stages of R&D, operations, distribution, marketing and sales and services. The end to end services help address the pharma industries’ challenges to bring in personalized medicines, generics and bio-similars while maintaining regulatory barriers under real cost pressure.

The firm is committed to provide consultations on digital health excellence, big data analytics, supply chain transformation, R&D productivity and enterprise applications, to let industry overcome the emerging challenges.

Specializing in systems integration and IT strategy, and having more than 2 decades of experience in management consulting, Jürgen Bauer, Partner and Global Head of Life Sciences Consulting says, “We pioneer in breaking down the barriers between strategy and execution, delivering the clients superior business value through guidance on the profitable strategy with respect to IT-enabled alterations.” The company achieves this by combining excellent process with SAP skills and in-depth experience of business transformational changes.