Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2018

It’s a sure sign that the products or services that you are offering are quality and that you are providing customer satisfaction. When your operational and back office processes are aligned you work efficiently and productively. Here are 5 signs that you are ready to expand: 1. You have a loyal customer base. You identify gaps.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

Since 1999, three years after OxyContin was unveiled by Purdue Pharmaceuticals, the rate of drug overdoses in the U.S. Meanwhile, the amount of prescription opioids sold by pharmaceutical companies has quadrupled, despite no proliferation in the amount of reported pain. And what can we learn from it? Commercial.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In this article, I’d like to share the insights we’ve gleaned from the model’s first full year of operation, which hopefully organizations in health care and many other industries will find useful. It ensures alignment of goals, resources, and people. Continuous improvement is a constant quest.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

PL and CM: Coherent companies – those that possess a capabilities system that aligns their strategy with their product/service portfolio – generate superior performance over time, which is what we call the coherence premium. SD : What is the ‘coherence premium?’. SD : What does it mean to have a ‘right to win?’.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

That’s why pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies need to define their relevance in this new health care ecosystem, and soon. When predefined treatment goals are attained, both parties contractually benefit. They’re also sharing risk. The new business model has yet to solidify, and the leaders have yet to emerge.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

For example, it increased both the number and status of safety personnel, and it strengthened safety operating procedures. We then tested the model using quantitative data about the incidence of safety-related errors in the context of pharmaceutical drugs. But learning waned as avoiding launch delays became increasingly important.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

We invest billions of dollars each year in medicines, new technologies, doctors, and hospitals—all with the goal of improving health, arguably our most prized commodity. health care system, ranging from expensive imaging for benign medical conditions to routine pre-operative testing before low-risk surgeries like cataract surgery.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare. It still doesn't seem necessary to be a COO in order to take over as CEO, though.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. It’s not just products.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. It’s clear why pain in the domestic supplier base matters from a policy perspective.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

The most common source of joint value is economies of scale , which allow for a reduction in the costs of either production or back-office operations. Economies of scale in production are often limited to the factory level; that is, they come from larger factories, not necessarily from larger firms.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

True collaboration always has open-ended elements — ranging from precisely how new innovations will be implemented, to how products will fare in the market, and even to what priorities partners will pursue in the face of changes in the environment. Recognizing this, Sun began to work more closely with Fujitsu and Texas Instruments.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

Looking ahead, we will continue to drive productivity, and we plan to conduct a deep dive into the details of our cost structure and allocation of capital to ensure we deliver appropriate returns for shareholders.” Injuries and catastrophic events, in addition to being tragic, are evidence that production is not being managed correctly.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

By forcing organizations to clearly articulate their goals and then to rigorously judge their decisions by those metrics, experimental tests can help managers avoid costly mistakes and can open up the consideration of other possible solutions. Take the issue of productivity. Change management Human resources Operations'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Innovation demands new behaviors from leaders and employees that are often antithetical to corporate cultures, which are historically focused on operational excellence and efficiency. Prasad, CEO of Dr. Reddy’s, a 33-year-old global pharmaceutical company headquartered in India that produces affordable generic medication.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

The private sector spends three times that , mostly on translational research intended to transform basic discoveries into new products. There is a wide chasm that separates an initial discovery and a viable product idea. “But here, we can operate within the time frame of the next coffee break.” Killing Ideas Faster.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

” Your goal, therefore, is “ to make sure the interviewers don’t shy away from you.” “I told the hiring manager that I had a very firm grasp of those products,” she says. ” One day he interviewed for a marketing support job at a pharmaceutical company. Check your attitude.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Take Citrus Lane CEO Mauria Finley, whose company was experiencing some growing pains, appropriately enough; the startup sends monthly packages of great baby products to moms. Even more tricky, they had to learn to articulate something that had been tacit: a shared understanding of goals, culture, and what it takes to succeed at Citrus Lane.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 19, 2011

We operate by the mantra of “use it or you lose it.” As a young Brand Manager, I pounced on consumer insecurities, pumping products that solved bad breath, armpit odor, yellow teeth and bad skin. They know we can well afford their products. So do pharmaceutical giants Eli Lilly and Pfizer. Sure, we have our insecurities.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Plus, as a result of a lack of cross-organizational coordination and cooperation, Nokia wasn’t able to improve its proprietary operating system, Symbian, which would have allowed it to support a more sophisticated smartphone. Shared goals and clearly defined roles provide the foundation upon which cooperation and coordination can be built.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Yet there’s compelling evidence that bureaucracy creates a significant drag on productivity and organizational resilience and innovation. Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. The facility is more than twice as productive as its sister plants in GE Aviation. The goal, of course, isn’t to put 21.4

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

After that, each time shoppers with the app enter a beacon-enabled store, they can receive promotional messages or deals on their device about products in the aisles they are browsing. For example, feedback from a single customer about wait times may not be sufficient to generalize the operational efficiency of the staff.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

The negotiators achieved their goal and closed a clever and profitable deal. Microsoft and Intel, as is well known, have long sought alternatives to their being fused at the hip — Microsoft seeking alternative chip platforms for its software, and Intel supporting additional operating systems. It can work, but it's rare.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

This is the challenge for all kinds of disruptors, whether in the auto industry, pharmaceuticals, service industries, or healthcare. We often observe a wide-ranging set of initiatives and investments operating independently, and in some cases, even competitively. and shifts its local focus to engineering and testing.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Increase the number of products that ship from a certain warehouse? A history of maximizing pageviews is not itself a compelling reason to set a renewed goal of maximizing pageviews. ” Insight Center. Scaling Your Team’s Data Skills. Sponsored by Splunk. Help your employees be more data-savvy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2015

Mark, a ten-year veteran of the pharmaceutical R&D world with a Ph.D. By the time a coach was brought in, there was an alarming downward trajectory of morale and productivity. Adaptive managers evoke commitment through common values and aspirational goals, not structure. The answer was simple: Mark was bossy.

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