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Gilead Sciences, Inc. headquarters is located in Foster City California. Gilead Sciences was founded in 1987, the current CEO is John F. Milligan Through the history of this company, Gilead Sciences has introduced 26 drugs to the commercial market across five main therapeutic areas. While the therapeutic areas cover HIV/AIDs, Liver Diseases, Hematology/Oncology, Cardiovascular and Inflammation/ Respiratory indications; the company is best known for their work with HIV/AIDS and Liver disease. As for the development pipeline, this company currently has 35 clinical drugs; 8 phase III, 19 phase II and 8 phase I products progressing through clinical trials. This paper will review Gilead Sciences, Inc. as an organization in the biopharmaceutical …show more content…

Gilead and business partners use this model for Raw materials, equipment, consultants, parts, utilities, infrastructure, distribution, logistics services, legal, marketing etc. Drugs sold to pharmacies, doctors are also under this model. Business to Government e-commerce (B2G); Businesses selling product and services to a government entity (Haag.S & Cummings.M., 2013). Internationally some countries drugs are sold to the governments as the governments control the distribution, alternatively this model is also for epidemic support when needed in collaboration with the CDC. Finally, Government to Business e-commerce (G2B) occurs when the government selling products and services to business (Haag.S & Cummings.M., 2013). This comes into consideration when government run programs with subsidized drug payments. From a daily business operation perspective, City, county, state and Federal services are necessary to operate the business. FDA, EU etc. filing fees and …show more content…

When implementing systems, the projects are IT driven, business is consulted late and functionality is not a priority. Unfortunately Gilead is a great case study of what not to due when considering corporate business intelligence programs. Business Intelligence means “leveraging information assets with key business processes to achieve improved business performance. It involves business information and analysis that is used within the context of a key business process, supports decisions and actions and leads to improved business performance” (Williams, S. & Williams, N.,2010). For this to work, business processes must be in place and supported by management; not the case for

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