INTERVIEW: Regulatory agility is as critical as scientific innovation

Highlight speaker interview

This written interview was conducted with one of our highlight speakers in the run-up to Pharma CIMI.CON 2025.

Keytopics

Beyond Google & AI: why CI requires robust methodology, neutrality, and process discipline

Building credibility: delivering the right level of intelligence for top management vs. portfolio teams

From dispersed teams to a central hub: creating a unified CI capability to support corporate strategy

Future of CI: balancing AI-driven tools with human curiosity, critical sense, and primary intelligence

Neutral, unbiased insights as the key to credibility and lasting influence

Interview with

Guillaume Rouland

Head of Competitive Intelligence and Knowledge Management

The Company

Servier

Founded to serve health 70 years ago, Servier is a global pharmaceutical group governed by a non-profit Foundation that aspires to make a meaningful social impact for patients and for a sustainable world. The Group’s unique governance model preserves its independence and means it can fully serve its vocation of being committed to therapeutic progress to serve patient needs while adopting a long-term vision. Its employees are fully committed to this shared vocation, which serves as a source of inspiration every day. A world leader in cardiometabolism and venous diseases, Servier has made a major shift into oncology, which represents a new pillar of strategic growth. The Group devotes close to 70% of its R&D budget to this field, with the ambition of becoming a focused and innovative player in the development of treatments targeting rare cancers. Neurology will constitute a future growth driver. Servier is focusing on a limited number of diseases in this area where accurate patient profiling makes it possible to offer a targeted therapeutic response through precision medicine. To promote widespread access to quality care at a lower cost, the Group also offers a range of quality generic drugs covering most pathologies, leveraging well-known brands in France, Eastern Europe and Brazil. In all these areas, the Group takes patient considerations into account at every stage of the medicine life cycle.