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Roche: We’ve Abandoned Budgets And It’s Liberated Employees

 
• By Andrew McConaghie

Bill Anderson says Roche has scrapped budgets and improved productivity and re-energized teams. But is it too good to be true?

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Roche pursues an unconventional productivity drive

Big pharma is constantly looking for new ways to control its multi-billion dollar budgets and speed up processes across R&D and commercial divisions. How tightly managers have been able to manage these targets has been a key internal metric. But what if one of these huge corporations were to abandon that core competency of controlling costs, and simply did away with budgets altogether?

This is exactly the radical approach Roche has taken in its commercial division, and three years in, the company...

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