Pfizer and Wyeth re-organization

According to RTT News, drug manufacturing company, Pfizer, recently bought out Wyeth, another pharmaceutical manufacturer. Pfizer is one of the major pharmaceutical manufacturers in the world. The headquarters are located in New York City with their research headquarters based in Connecticut. Pfizer is responsible for producing several of the most popular prescription drugs on the market today including, Lipitor, Lyrica, Diflucan, and Zithromax, just to name a few.

Company Structure: GM

Each business and company is organized in a specific way in order to gain the maximum success possible. The specific company discussed in this article is Opel, the GM subsidiary located in Germany. Gm has many structural divisions of their company and Opel is only one of many. When there are divisions of global business organization “Leading corporations enhance their performance by building organizations that respond flexibly to market change and reflect the company’s strategic shifts”.

“How Fiat found its sweet spot”

Back in January of this year, Italian automaker Fiat announced a deal of investment within American automaker Chrysler of between 20 – 55%. Although this deal has not yet taken place, this article explains how the current CEO of Fiat, Sergio Marchionne, has restructured the company and hints that Fiat’s successful organization might influence Chrysler’s future. By the early 1990’s the Fiat Company was over diversified and failing from a burdensome management structure.

“Smart Management for Tough Times”

Successfully managing companies through difficult times can present obstacles not dealt with in everyday managing. Managers must be prepared with strategic plans and smart alternatives in order to correctly respond to current business atmospheres. Especially during times of economic downfall, such as our current situation, managers are forced to get creative with solutions to keep their businesses afloat. CEO of Cisco Systems John Chambers experienced this in 2001 when after a substantially successful year at Cisco, the networks stock dropped 86% and thousands of employees were laid off.

International Company: Fidelity

Fidelity is a large group of international companies. FIL Limited, or FIL is a privately owned investment management company belonging in the Fidelity group. It is the ultimate holding company of the Fidelity Group and its structure will be discussed in this blog.
FIL Limited operates in twenty-three countries throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia. It manages its work from these twenty-three different offices, and employs over four thousand people.

Pfizer Unveils Organization Structure and Leadership Plan for Post- Wyeth Merger

Tuesday CFO of Pharmaceutical behemoth Pfizer announced plans of organization and further business plans during the upcoming months in preparation for the merger with Wyeth a smaller but still vital acquisition in the market. This merger was necessary for Pfizer to assure assets which would be lost due to the financial crunch, by acquiring 3 key product patents which Wyeth owns Pfizer will lose less or even post a gain in the coming quarters.

Takeda to Create Global Centers of Excellence

Takeda is a pharmaceutical company that is recently reorganizing their corporate structure in order to become a global pharmaceutical company with highly integrated global operations.
The company is streamlining executive reporting relationships to the president, Hasegawa, by creating corporate-level center of excellence, commercial and administrative functions. The new structure looks forward to continuing the history of creating and marketing novel pharmaceutical products that meets the needs of their patients.

Management style and competitive advantages

In an article published on October 7, 2008, a writer for BusinessWeek publishes an editorial that argues the importance, or lack of importance of competitive advantage in today’s global economy. The argument Dov Seidman proposes is that in the 21st century, our world is so over-connected that it is impossible to stand out from the competition by trying to be different.