
RBQM implementations fail not because the software is wrong — but because the human environment surrounding it was never engineered.

Fred Blais, RBQM Lead at CluePoints, has spent the last 13 years of his 19-year clinical trial career inside Central Statistical Monitoring and Risk-Based Quality Management. His experience has led him to a conclusion – RBQM implementation failure is caused by a lack of understanding of human behavior – not faults in the software. He discusses how design decisions based on behavioral science mirror ICH E6(R3) and what is needed to produce extraordinary outcomes.