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Narrator: Sanofi is one
of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies
in the world, with about 40 billion euros
of revenue and operating in over 100 countries.
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From a digital standpoint, our mission is to become
the leading digital health care platform by 2025.
So our original ambition was to deliver value
both at speed and at scale.
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-: The first thing we did was to focus
on one area where we felt we could have a big impact.
The second thing is we looked
at a recruitment strategy and a plan.
We wanted to attract talent into the accelerator.
And then we really took the BOT approach-
that build, operate, transfer, those phases.
In the build phase, you lean on external partners
to help you accelerate and scale fast.
In that second phase, you move the talent slowly inside
and transfer your knowledge, and then you become autonomous.
We've got over 20 nationalities in the accelerator
and I could not be more proud of it.
I call the accelerator the mini United Nations of Sanofi.
We've also created an upskilling program
for our own Sanofians.
It's a place where people learn the new skills,
the digital skills of the future.
BCG was instrumental in helping us build the accelerator.
It's been a true partnership.
The first thing they brought is industry expertise.
The life science industry is quite complex
and they've got deep expertise in the field.
The second is they brought technical expertise
around machine learning, AI
for some of our products, which are very sophisticated.
Thirdly, the BOT model, the build, operate, transfer model,
and that was essential for the success of the accelerator.
Lastly, they helped us continuously focus on value creation.
And for all of this, I'm extremely thankful to BCG.
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