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Biogen Idec designs the innovation supply chain

Supply Chain View from the Field

Since graduating from the NC State Jenkins MBA program in 2006, Joydeep Ganguly has risen through the ranks at Biogen Idec – the world’s oldest independent biotechnology company and the largest biotech employer in North Carolina. Vertically integrate existing manufacturers. There were four options: 1. Build facilities.

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“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”: The argument for creating an analytics culture

NC State SCRC

In 2006, Amazon ( AMZN ) started a revolution. deliver analytics that predict defects on the manufacturing line”) and the cloud-based software that IT deployed was poorly managed such that it became hardto decipher how all that cloud spend related to IT initiatives. Cloudy analytics with a chance of raining costs. So what happened?