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Introducing A Model And A Framework To Unify The Pharmaceutical Quality System Enablers Quality Risk Management & Knowledge Management, Martin J. Lipa, Kevin O'Donnell, Anne Greene

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An organization that effectively manages knowledge should be able to recognize and proactively apply new learnings to better anticipate risks. This is particularly important in the manufacture of medicinal products. Since the publication of ICH Q10 in 2010, Quality Risk Management (QRM) and Knowledge Management (KM) have been positioned as co-enablers to the Pharmaceutical Quality System. The authors of this paper present a Knowledge Management process model to foster greater practical understanding of the practice of knowledge management. This model when joined with the familiar ICH Q9 process model for QRM, should enable a company to better manage their knowledge …