Life Science Digital & Transformation Consulting
People first: The success of any digital strategy or transformation is dependent upon a team that demonstrates confidence, assertiveness, transparency, and active engagement.
Our services are designed with your teams as a central focus, ensuring that our approach aligns closely with your objectives
About us
Third Road Consulting: Human-Centered, Pragmatic Support
With over 30 years of expertise in strategic consulting, information solutions leadership, and digital transformation, Third Road Consulting provides comprehensive guidance throughout your organization’s transformation journey. Our mission is to support you in overcoming challenges, capitalizing on opportunities, and achieving your objectives.
Thomas ROLLAND is the founder of Third Road Consulting and a manufacturing engineer with substantial expertise in the consulting sector, as well as the pharmaceutical and biotechnology fields. He has held leadership positions spanning quality, manufacturing, IT, and digital domains. Throughout his career, Thomas prioritized team development and leadership, consistently placing people at the center of business operations.
We will work together to develop customized solutions that address your specific requirements, while promoting active team involvement and maintaining alignment with your organizational culture
Reasons for Selecting Third Road Consulting
Integrity
Respect
Humility
Transparency
Listening
Trust
30+ years of expertise
Innovation driven by passion
Flexibility
Pragmatism
Life Science
Biotechnology
Our Expertise
Experience-Driven Know-How
We offer custom solutions that align with your strategic, digital, and managerial needs.
Strategy
Site acquisition, digital transformation / Industry 4.0, or deployment strategy.
What matters is making the right choice, building the most suitable roadmap to stand out and keep your competitive advantage.
Digital Governance & Execution
Project portfolio prioritization, tailored project methodologies, value realization, quality, and digital performance: There is no successful strategy without strong governance and controlled execution.
Culture & Organization
New ambition, organizational adjustments, new leadership position, change management, and mentoring.
A high-performing team is self-confident and excel in a calm and supportive environment.
Our services
Services designed to transform your business
We help you design tailored solutions that address your strategic, governance, and implementation needs, with your teams at the heart of the journey.
Strategy
Establish a well-defined vision supported by a tailored digital strategy: your own
DOING THE RIGHT THING: Seeking to develop a practical and results-driven digital strategy tailored to your specific challenges, designed to deliver measurable improvements in revenue and productivity?
Here are strategic questions we can help you to explore:
Which digital strategy effectively drives value and establishes a sustainable competitive advantage?
We assist in developing an Information Systems strategy that is closely integrated with your broader business strategy.
It aligns with your business objectives and addresses fundamental questions such as « Why? » and « What? ».
We facilitate the translation of strategic directions into actionable operational objectives across all business functions, addressing both technological challenges and skill requirements. In collaboration, we establish the value ambition and delineate the anticipated benefits for each segment of your organization.
Witch IT strategy in mergers and acquisitions or divestitures?
During the M&A process, prompt and comprehensive evaluation of the circumstances is crucial. Timely analysis enables effective decision-making and ensures strategic outcomes.
We provide expert guidance in developing tailored IT strategies for mergers and divestitures.
We support the due diligence process by identifying critical IT concerns within your target.
Next, we jointly develop an integration roadmap that aims to deliver value efficiently, reduce operational interruptions, and facilitate a seamless transition.
How can technology improve my factory’s productivity and compliance?
In an unstable, volatile world, where demand is constantly changing, productivity, resilience and agility of factories are, along with quality, key factors for success.
Digitalization allows you to meet these challenges.
Using a field-based method to gather problems, encouraging team mobilization, and advancing digital integration, we help you identify the right data and solutions. This strategy allows you (for example) to reduce deviations, boost yields, and speed up production cycles.
What benefits could my department gain from incorporating Artificial Intelligence?
Your facilities produce substantial volumes of unused or underutilized data, including process control, quality monitoring, environmental, and quality assurance information. Concurrently, your teams encounter increasingly complex challenges, often within the constraints of limited time and resources. By adopting a systematic and measured approach, you can implement AI solutions that are compliant and genuinely enhance your operational effectiveness.
Digital Governance & Execution
Take control of your strategy’s evolution and implementation.
DOING THE THING RIGHT: Integrating new technologies can be a powerful performance driver, but implementing them successfully is often complex.
A well-managed portfolio and a tailored execution approach are key to ensuring smooth rollouts and effective operational use.
From financial management to risk control and performance monitoring: how can governance create real value?
IT departments are too often seen as cost centers, essential for operations, but with no real added value. We help you shift that perception.
By building business-aligned governance that is transparent and strong on its fundamentals (finance, technology, security, quality) and delivers measurable value, you contribute directly to business growth.
Business evolves, needs change, how do you maintain a portfolio a relevant, aligned portfolio with your internal partners?
Establishing trust, promoting regular communication, active listening, proximity, and a deep understanding of business processes, combined with fostering an Agile mindset, are all levers we help you activate to stay aligned with internal partners.
How do you stay compliant during my digital transformation?
Technology is evolving at breakneck speed. Digital transformation or Industry 4.0 or even 5.0, the explosion of Data and Artificial Intelligence, the interconnectivity of systems, equipment and people, Agile or Lean startup approaches are shaking up the established practices of the pharmaceutical industry.
Thanks to our experience and deep knowledge of digital transformation, regulatory compliance, and industry standards, we help you integrate these innovations into your core processes.
Yes, an Agile product can be validated and fully compliant with regulations!
How can I support my employees/team in digitalization?
Digital transformation is not just a technical endeavor, it’s a human journey that must be treated as such.
Through active listening, digital acculturation, education and certification cycles, but above all the successful implementation of digital solutions, your employees will be able to fully experience this transformation. The evolution of management methods towards greater trust and empowerment of teams is also essential.
Culture & Organization
Transform your culture and optimize your organization for stronger performance.
Whether you need guidance yourself, or support for your managers and team leads in their daily challenges.
Trust-based leadership, team cohesion and development, multicultural environments… Let’s break down barriers step by step.
How do you successfully step into a new IT or Digital leadership role?
The first weeks are critical. They set the tone and establish your leadership style.
Understanding your team’s challenges, crafting a compelling vision, identifying strengths and areas for improvement, and building trust within the team: we share our experience and guidance to support you through this pivotal phase.
You remain the decision-maker, and together we define your roadmap.
Your organization needs to evolve, but you don’t know where to start?
Organizational evolution never happens by accident.
Youn want to energize your teams, integrate a new activity, reduce hierarchy layers, or shift your services’ direction? We help you take a step back and benchmark effectively. From defining the guiding principles of your future organization to managing the transition, we put your employees at the center of the process.
Together, we address key topics like role assignments, training, motivation, engagement, management, and leadership to ensure your future organization is both operational and high performing.
Supporting a project manager or manager? How could mentoring help you?
Training is one thing. Practice is another.
Through regular mentoring, with guided questioning, behavioral recommendations, and action proposals tailored to the project’s progress and real-life events, we help your manager build his confidence step by step.
Frequent feedback and real-world examples from similar situations help reinforce their skills and improve performance in line with objectives.
Your team members are in the U.S.A., China, India, or Latin America — and you’re struggling to build your team?
An international context adds complexity to any managerial role.
Understanding each culture’s biases, adapting your behavior accordingly, and building a unified team culture based on shared vision, these are the essential steps we help you take.
Our Consulting Approach
Vision, Mission & Priorities: A human-centered approach for lasting results
Third Road Consulting supports you with personalized solutions designed to turn your challenges into success stories.
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Context & Situation
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Expectations & Needs
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Observation & Dialogue
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Business Understanding
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Solution Building
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Progressive Approach
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Organizational Maturity
Do you like our approach?
Partnership
Third Road Consulting is a member of the Humanim Life Sciences network
Humanim brings together complementary experiences and expertise to better address the complex, multi-dimensional challenges you face.
On certain projects, and with your agreement, we may collaborate with HMN or its partner organizations.
Thanks to the Humanim collective, we offer the agility of an independent structure combined with the strength of a trusted network.
Thomas Rolland
30 years of experience serving your business
A career shaped by successful collaborations, driven by innovation and passion.
1995
CVO-CyberConseil
Senior Consultant → Account Manager → Technical Director
Assignments in over 80 pharmaceutical and biotech laboratories in France and abroad, including:
Audits and diagnostics, consulting and technical coaching, training as a lead expert in IT Validation, project management for validation, implementation of software solutions…
2001
Sanofi
Quality Lead for IT Systems → Deputy Director IT Quality → Head of Unit Office → Program Director → Head of Industrial Digital
Responsibilities included validation, security and compliance of IT systems (GxP, SOX, GDPR) across industrial and R&D environments;
Comprehensive IT management (strategy, budget, projects, applications, methodologies, risk, sourcing, architecture);
Departmental transformation (3000+ users);
Leading the digital transformation strategy and execution (Industry 4.0) of the global Vaccines industrial network (12 sites)…
2023
Third Road Consulting
Founder & Senior Consultant
Strategic transformation, digitalization, and team support.
Contact Third Road Consulting
Let’s transform your business together
At Third Road Consulting, we’re here to support your projects and meet your specific needs.
Don’t hesitate to reach out, we’d love to discuss how we can support you.