traditional approach used for organizing development projects at Eli Lilly? This consists of two issues. First‚ is an evaluation of the changes taking place in the pharmaceutical industry and what it is that caused Lilly to feel compelled to try the heavyweight development approach on two of its drug development projects? Second‚ is understanding the essence of the heavyweight team approach‚ particularly as it has been used by Lilly? A Heavyweight team structure is a project management organizational
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Eli Lilly Eli Lilly’s approach to supply chain management is somewhat unique due in large part to their type of industry‚ pharmaceuticals. While many firms would traditionally focus on things such as just in time inventory or inventory reductions‚ Eli Lilly does not because an inventory shortage in their industry is unacceptable as often times‚ people health or even their lives are at stake. Eli Lilly has adapted their supply chain management to meet the needs of their industry by ensuring the
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manager of strategic facilities and planning at Eli Lilly‚ about the type of manufacturing facility to construct for the three new pharmaceutical products that the company plans to launch in 1996. A number of growing industry and company specific conditions have made this decision particularly relevant and have sparked debate with management and throughout the company. In response to these conditions‚ Lilly management decided to establish a set of company-wide goals that focused on improving time to
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Case# 6 - Eli Lilly: The Elvista Project 1. What is a "heavyweight project team" and how does it differ from the traditional approach used for organizing projects at Eli Lilly? Their traditional approach was much less organized and personal. Heavy weight teams at Eli Lilly were setup so that specialized individuals would work on one project (as opposed to several) led by a project manager. The project manager would then designate individual jobs and make sure that they were completed. Five key
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heavyweight team at Lilly. • First‚ the teams were each given a very clear business charter “to focus exclusively on the development of a single compound.” • Second‚ each team was collocated and cross functional. • Third‚ the teams were each led by a “heavyweight” project manager. • Fourth‚ each team took responsibility for the sub-stance of the work‚ how the work was accomplished‚ and the ensuing results. • Fifth‚ each team had two executive sponsors‚ one from LRL (Lilly Research Laboratories)
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Analysis Methods Porter’s Five Force in relation to Eli Lilly Threat of New Entrants Threat of new entrants is relatively high. Companies forming alliances are potential rivals. Even if earlier such company was not considered to be a threat‚ after merging with some research and development company or forming alliance with another pharmaceutical company it would become a rival to Eli Lilly. The threat is however weakened by significant research and development costs necessary to successfully
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Competing through Strategy Case: Eli Lilly in India: Rethinking the Joint Ventures Strategy I. Brief Summary Global pharmaceuticals had presence in India since early 80’s and it was not until 1993 that Eli Lilly International decided to establish a Joint Venture with India’s second largest laboratory and exporter‚ Ranbaxy. This move happened in a very challenging context as both companies have very different profiles and backgrounds. The main differential characteristic was the nature
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Report Eli Lilly and Company and Insulin Business Eli Lilly‚ the global research-based pharmaceutical company which was found in 1876‚ now enters its 130th year of business. From a starting up company that was like dozens‚ maybe hundreds of other drug companies making and selling sugar-coated pills‚ fluid extracts‚ syrups and with hand work constituting the primary method of production to one of the major pharmaceutical company that dominated the industry in the world‚ Eli Lilly and Company has witnessed
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role of corporate venture capital? Corporations with corporate venture capital (CVC) programs invest monies in start-up companies in exchange for an equity stake in the business. By doing so‚ they may gain access to new ideas and technologies or possibly support for their own business objectives. In some instances‚ the result is symbiotic; producing something neither company could on their own. Other times‚ the corporation’s interest in the start-up may be more for fact-finding than financial gain
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Eli Lilly and Company Organizational Structure Eli Lilly and Company has been in the pharmaceutical business for a long time and has undergone a variety of changes and re-organizations in its management style. This had to happen for the company to grow and expand from a small company in Indiana‚ to the global Fortune 500 Company it is today! Starting out‚ Eli Lilly was clearly a bureaucracy‚ being a small company and not having many employees. As it grew‚ its management had to change. In the
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