Life Science Case Studies

Guiding Corporate Reorganization
The new leadership team of a biopharmaceutical company with several in-market products and many development products found the company with low morale, high turnover, and an unaligned and underperforming organization that threatened the company’s long-term viability. The company engaged Applied Strategies to help develop the company’s optimal organizational design. Working closely with the Executive Committee and employees at every level of the company, we helped to:

• Reorganize by therapeutic area to enable synergy, consistency, and improved alignment in product planning
• Clearly define roles and responsibilities throughout the organization to improve decision-making, efficiency, and productivity
• Strengthen the team through internal promotion and recruitment
• Improve morale and motivation through employee participation, improved communications, better understanding of vision and strategy, and the pushing of decision-making lower in the organization
• As a result of the reorganization, the company is now aligned in its strategy, people, products, and processes and it is well positioned for long-term success

As part of the post-reorganization implementation, Applied Strategies helped the company establish a Strategic Planning and Analysis Group, led and staffed its Project Management Department until full-time staff could be hired, and facilitated a decimated Medical Affairs Department through a department strategy and planning process to determine how best to rebuild under the new organizational structure and corporate strategy. In addition, Applied Strategies periodically facilitates Executive Committee off-sites to assess progress against goals and organizational and management team behavior and performance.

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