
Martyn Williams, managing director of COPA-DATA UK discusses digitalisation of pharma and what’s holding firms back.
If you’re working in the office today, look around. Peer over your laptop. How many of your colleagues are still clinging to paper-based processes? Clutching SOPs, annotating batch records, copying notes by hand?
It’s not a dig. It’s a reflection of where the pharmaceutical industry still finds itself in 2025.
According to a 2025 survey by the Pistoia Alliance, more than half of life sciences professionals say internal resistance to change is the number one…