- ...reimagine the organization in long term.
what are the skills and capabilities
that we in the organization need to be built
to be successful in long term?
Soft Music
- You're leading a large digital transformation.
When you boil it down to three
to five success factors, what would those be?
- The first one is commitment from the leadership.
I think of a clear strategy and communicate the strategy
and implication of change
for the organization is critical.
The second one is really, reimagine the
organization long term.
What are the skills and capabilities
that we in the organization need to be built
to be successful long term?
And this is where I think we need also to imagine where
to insource or re-insource
these capabilities across basically
the entire organization.
And the third one is really helping the organization in the
change, understanding why
and how to change
and actually bring everybody, right, along
with you in this journey,
- Starting with R&D
and clinical trials,
what are the biggest opportunities you see
and you're driving forward?
- The development side actually of R&D is a critical area for us.
For the first time in Takeda,
we have six assets in phase three,
and that offers us incredible opportunities.
But the environment is very challenging.
Recruiting patients for clinical trials is complicated
and more expensive.
So this is where actually we are really doubling down our
investment on digital.
-When you think of your supply chain
and digital analytics in that space, what are the one
or two things that excite you most?
- Our supply chain is completely AI-driven,
and this is about optimizing the network to really bring
therapies to our patients as fast as possible,
and at the same time is also generating efficiency.
Recently we just introduced drones in our warehouses
that actually flying overnight to optimize,
to calculate inventory real time
and, you know, optimize inventory
for the next shift.
- What are the biggest challenges you see
and how do you overcome them?
- Well, the biggest challenge is, I think, culture
and how you create a new culture for speed, agility,
customer centricity in a 243-years-old company,
we actually discovered that in Japan is not,
is not just so unique.
There are more than 30,000 companies older than 100
years, more than
3,000 older than 200 years, like Takeda. What they have in common
that is pretty unique, and I think, you know,
the customer-focused
and customer feedback, customer obsession,
I would say the creation of value in long term
and not have just short-term gains,
I think is another characteristics.
You think about, you know, the agility
and resiliency that you need to have to survive
for hundreds of years.
And it's a long journey because we want this to be relevant
for, again, 55,000 people across the organization.
Soft Music