Monday September 14 - Back Bay
A small table of clinical trial leaders.
The evening is designed around one idea: the best conversations in this industry happen off the record, over a good meal, with the right people in the room.
Trial risk is a human‑performance signal before it becomes a data signal.
Most programs catch execution risk after it surfaces. There's an earlier signal. Most operating models aren't built to read it.
The Reframe
RBQM looks back. Readiness looks ahead.
By the time deviations and delays surface in monitoring data, the underlying cause has been building since site initiation. The window to act has already closed. Readiness signals appear earlier, during startup and at the SIV, when there is still time to intervene.
Leading Indicator
Confidence and comprehension gaps are measurable before first patient in, when corrective action is still possible.
Lagging Indicator
Protocol deviations, query rates, and enrollment delays surface downstream, after the cause has compounded.
The Method
Readiness is an early signal of execution risk.
Clinical trials generate enormous amounts of data once execution begins. Enrollment rates, deviations, queries, monitoring findings and quality events all reveal where a study is struggling.
The problem is timing. By the time those signals appear, sites are already enrolling patients and the study may already be absorbing the consequences.
Readiness provides an earlier signal.
By measuring not only whether study teams completed training, but whether they actually understand the protocol-critical concepts required for their role, sponsors can identify where knowledge is strong, where uncertainty remains and where confidence may exceed competence.
Those signals become actionable during startup, before operational performance reveals the same risks downstream.
What that produces: an early, role-level view of readiness across sites and regions that allows study teams to identify risk sooner, target intervention where it is needed and make more informed decisions before enrollment begins.
The Ready Platform
Bring a pre-enrollment human readiness signal into RBQM.
Ready combines role-specific study training with behavioral measurement to surface readiness before enrollment begins.
Confidence-Based Assessment measures more than whether someone answered correctly. Each response is paired with a confidence measure, distinguishing correct and confident mastery from correct answers accompanied by uncertainty and incorrect answers held with high confidence.
That distinction matters. Completion tells you whether training happened. Readiness data shows you where understanding is strong and where human execution risk may still exist.
The same training activity therefore does two jobs: it better prepares teams to execute the protocol while giving sponsors an earlier signal of where targeted intervention may be warranted.
That is the opportunity for RBQM: identify a source of execution risk before operational performance data begins revealing the consequences.
"This training platform helps you actually know if staff absorbed the material and allows individuals to learn at their own pace. Then when you conduct the tailored SIV you feel confident that everyone has trained and can focus the SIV on issues of confusion to answer all of the questions and interact as much as possible."VP Clinical Operations · Rare Disease Biotech
Evidence
A decade of data. 300,000+ users. A consistent pattern.
Across studies, the same pattern emerges: Sponsors and sites value the Ready platform and study execution improves.
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222% average increase in mastery, defined as correct and confident responses
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80% of sites complete training and activation in under two weeks; 90% within three
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96% of site personnel report Ready better prepared them to screen and enroll patients sooner
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100% of sponsors and CROs who deploy Ready expand its use across additional teams and studies
Latest Research Article
The Earliest Warning Sign: Measuring Risk in Clinical Trials by McGowan & Ritch - Applied Clinical Trials
Let's Connect During DPHARM
We'll walk through your program and show you where the readiness signal appears, and what you can act on before first patient in.
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