Case Questions
1.
You’re an up-and-coming assistant to a manager
at Roche Group. Your boss is being transferred to
the company’s recently acquired research facilities
at the former Genentech headquarters in San
Francisco. She’s asked you to compile a brief
report on Genentech’s overall approach to product
innovation. What will you say in your report?
(Hint: Structure your report according to the
three forms of innovation discussed in the text:
radical versus incremental, technical versus mana-
gerial, and product versus process.)
2.
Ex-Roche Chairman Franz Humer committed the
parent company to sustaining Genentech’s “inno-
vative culture,” and his successor, Severin Schwan,
has stated that he intends to “keep the two respec-
tive research and early development organizations
as independent units”; merging the two R&D
units, he says, “would kill innovation” at Genen-
tech. Schwan needs suggestions on how best to
follow through on both Humer’s commitment
and his own. It is no surprise that your boss has
asked you to furnish her with two or three ideas
that she might pass on to the CEO. What will your
suggestions be?
3.
Despite the commitments made by its CEOs,
Roche Group is an immense company: It employs
more than 80,000 people in 150 countries and
posted revenues of $48 billion in 2012. There will
undoubtedly be changes at Genentech. Generally
speaking, what sort of changes might you expect
in the following areas—organization structure and
design, technology and operations, and people, atti-
tudes, and behaviors?
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