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<p>[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 3344022"]<b>Dysfunctional Leadership at Abbott Diabetes Care</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I have never seen a biotech organization that is more dysfunctional than Abbott Diabetes Care (ADC) and if there are any MBA candidates out there who are interested in a case study for their thesis, ADC is a very good candidate. Here are some interesting tidbits:</p><p><br /></p><p>(1) Years after Abbott acquired Therasense, the Operations team were still packing kits into shipping boxes that said Therasense on it. The VP of Operations was just a stingy fool who was more interested in cost savings, waiting for his retirement, and in getting his daughter an internship (and subsequently a fulltime job) at ADC.</p><p>(2) VPs are just recycled around--- After Florentino left, they brought in R Hance, who was recycled from Vascular, and after just a year, was recycled back to Vascular, and H Mason was brought in as Pres and she came from another Abbott division as well. The ineffective VP of QA was just recycled to the eyecare division, and the VP of Regulatory and Clinicals came from Vascular, right after that division got a warning letter. (Surprisingly, he heads clinicals even if he never had a clinical trial background.) They had a Brit for a manufacturing VP and he was booted out and a someone from nutrition was brought in. And what is there to say about the Sales and Marketing leadership? It's a revolving door!</p><p>(3) After Navigator was launched, they just realized that there was no reimbursement for this product. Why would patients (or Medicare) pay for this expensive device when there are cheaper alternatives (i.e. meters and strips)?</p><p>(4) When the FDA sent a safety warning on the GDH-PQQ technology, which FreeStyle uses, Bayer and Lifescan acted swiftly and changed their enzymes to a safer alternative. As of this writing, I checked ADCs website and they still do not have a solution to this public health risk. I am sure that Bayer and Lifescan are taking advantage of this and are slowly eating market share from ADC's FreeStyle strips.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 3344022"][b]Dysfunctional Leadership at Abbott Diabetes Care[/b] I have never seen a biotech organization that is more dysfunctional than Abbott Diabetes Care (ADC) and if there are any MBA candidates out there who are interested in a case study for their thesis, ADC is a very good candidate. Here are some interesting tidbits: (1) Years after Abbott acquired Therasense, the Operations team were still packing kits into shipping boxes that said Therasense on it. The VP of Operations was just a stingy fool who was more interested in cost savings, waiting for his retirement, and in getting his daughter an internship (and subsequently a fulltime job) at ADC. (2) VPs are just recycled around--- After Florentino left, they brought in R Hance, who was recycled from Vascular, and after just a year, was recycled back to Vascular, and H Mason was brought in as Pres and she came from another Abbott division as well. The ineffective VP of QA was just recycled to the eyecare division, and the VP of Regulatory and Clinicals came from Vascular, right after that division got a warning letter. (Surprisingly, he heads clinicals even if he never had a clinical trial background.) They had a Brit for a manufacturing VP and he was booted out and a someone from nutrition was brought in. And what is there to say about the Sales and Marketing leadership? It's a revolving door! (3) After Navigator was launched, they just realized that there was no reimbursement for this product. Why would patients (or Medicare) pay for this expensive device when there are cheaper alternatives (i.e. meters and strips)? (4) When the FDA sent a safety warning on the GDH-PQQ technology, which FreeStyle uses, Bayer and Lifescan acted swiftly and changed their enzymes to a safer alternative. As of this writing, I checked ADCs website and they still do not have a solution to this public health risk. I am sure that Bayer and Lifescan are taking advantage of this and are slowly eating market share from ADC's FreeStyle strips.[/QUOTE]
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