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Case Study

Ensuring IT support after the change of ownership

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Challenges and successes: An in-depth look at building an independent IT organization

A leading pharmaceutical CDMO in Europe was able to successfully build an independent IT organization and a global IT community with an Atreus manager and achieve savings of € 2 million by renegotiating license agreements.

Company

  • Leading Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) in Europe
  • Revenue of €1b with 2,500 employees

Challenge

  • Strong growth of the company (tripling turnover in 10 years) despite a decentralized structure with a shared service center
  • Departure of the CIO
  • Upcoming change of ownership

Goals

  • Ensuring IT support after the change of ownership
  • Setting up independent IT organization

Measures

  • Development of strategies as a basis for decision-making by the Executive Board
  • Definition of the necessary steps for implementation at global level
  • Renegotiation of license agreements

Results

  • Ensuring IT support
  • Successful development of independent IT organization and a global IT community
  • Savings of €2m through renegotiation of license agreements in the first three months of deployment

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