5
Number of business units engaged in the process.
38
Number of identified prospective innovation areas.
30
Number of delivered potential technological solutions categories matching the client’s needs.
Takeda is a patient-focused, values-based, R&D-driven global biopharmaceutical company committed to bringing improved health outcomes for people worldwide.
While Takeda is mainly focussed on the development of pharmaceuticals, it is also consistently in pursuit of potentially life-changing treatments for rare diseases. It has a holistic approach to patient care, from medicines and pharmaceuticals, to the care delivered by doctors and nurses. It also aims to improve and speed up diagnostics. In Poland, the company's core business is its proprietary prescription drugs for gastrointestinal disease, cancer, pain relief and tissue regeneration. The company has a small but growing team responsible for innovation.
The Takeda staff wanted to know in which areas of their work they could look for innovative solutions for various types of stakeholders.
They were keen to embed innovation into the company in a structured way and to create lasting processes which would enable ideas to be implemented with greater ease.
As the Huge Things team we designed and conducted innovation needs mapping workshops based on a combination of our methodology with best market practice. We met with five key internal teams, based around the different medical areas which they represent: immunology, hematology, IBD, oncology and GD.
For each team, we conducted a mapping exercise in the form of a workshop which included identification and prioritization of current, near-future and more distant future needs. The teams already had a whole list of current needs from both patients, doctors and caregivers, gained during the interviews. With us, they then sorted through these, gave each need a priority level and checked whether it was still relevant. They also added new needs that hadn’t previously been noted down.
The Huge Thing Team’s methodology allowed the Takeda teams to delve deeper into the challenges and ideas submitted during the workshops. Thanks to the tools provided to Takeda’s team, they are able to collect the demand for innovations cyclically – thanks to this, the process of innovation can be better embedded throughout the company.
We had highly positive feedback from the internal team. One of the senior managers who we worked with at Takeda said that it would be great to get more people involved in planning and speculating about the future, including shareholders from outside the company.
The mapping that we conducted with Takeda resulted in the identification of areas and needs common to various business departments. This meant that the innovation team could propose technological solutions that addressed more than just a single need. This, in turn, taught people in the organization that problem solving should be approached together with other business units. The ongoing challenge will be to find technological solutions tailored to Takeda’s needs, and then to implement them.
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