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Strategic Management Analysis of Biocon India Group Limited

The development of a country mainly depends on the increasing number of industries and their success. This article is focused on the Strategic Management Analysis of Biocon India Group Limited. All types of industries and cottage firms are part of the country’s development. In this case, the Indian pharmaceutical industry has created mentionable changes in the economy. From 1947 this industry started its journey. Initially, the local market was dominated by Europe and the United States (Syngeneintl.com, 2019). With the increasing population, the market for pharmaceutical products has needed to expand in the global economy market. Starting with the 21st century, around 20,000 pharmaceutical companies were started their operation in India.

Strategic Management Analysis of Biocon India Group Limited

From the beginning of the journey of the pharmaceuticals, clinical trials considered the most expensive part of the drug development chain. There was an emerging condition of making it prime targets for outsourcing to India (Biocon.com, 2019). On the other hand, remarkable growth development of the medical biotech industry had been recognized by the Indian government. As a result, the government had taken dynamic steps like creating the department of Biotechnology within the Ministry of Science and Technology, building international standard biotech parks, particularly in the R&D and biotech fields. During this time, the Biocon India group established by Kiran Mazumder shaw as a joint venture with Biocon Ireland started their journey to wholesale manufactured enzymes. This company got several achievements in the lifetime of its journey. In 1989 it became the first Indian Biotech company to practice the US money for patented technologies. Recently the Biocon group introduce a new subsidiary which is named Clinigene.

Clinigene was launched in 2000 by the Biocon group as a subsidiary. A broad range of clinical services had to conduct to start their business. To conduct this research Biocon needed a large number of expertise, capitals and also favorable circumstances (Indiainfoline.com, 2019). So for overall circumstances, Biocon needed to make some critical decisions for the organization and future planning process.

Literature Review

India’s pharmaceutical industry has expanded its sphere in the last three decades. The country became the world’s third-largest producer of drugs for the volume of production. The industry has posted a rise in the US $36.7 Billion in 2017 and expected to grow at the US $55 Billion by 2020. India is now considered to be the top five pharmaceutical emerging markets of the world (GUPTA, 2019).

India’s exports of generic drugs increased at a very impressive rate of 24% from the last four years and more than half of covered the highly-regulated western markets of the world. This can provide an idea about the volumes production and the better efficiency of the Indian pharma sector from the perspective of quality and pricing. It is the second-largest export market for Africa, then Europe. Next, the market is targeting to expand its services to Latin America, Australia, Japan.

According to the UNICEF Supply, Annual Report India is the world’s largest supplier of generics for facilitating affordable access to poor patients with various life-saving medicines. Due to the increased ability of the Indian pharma companies the cost of HIV/AIDS treatment has gone down to $400 per year from $12,000 with is a great achievement for global healthcare (Jeyarathmm, 2008).

Strategic analysis on how the cultural issues of the company faced:

The success of Clinigene mostly depends on the strategic planning of the Biocon group, as it is the new subsidiary of this group and the success of this new subsidiary indicates future profitability. Five major key growth verticals are followed by the Biocon group and they are Small Particles (APIs), Biosimilars, Branded Formulations, Novel Particles and Research Facilities (Ellson, 2004). All of these five items worked for the growth of the company and minimize the competition in the industry.

Strategic challenges faced by the owner:

How the central issues were dealt with

The central issues were some significant consideration to provide for the organization. Biocon needs to deal with different kinds of factors to adopt their strategies with the culture and society of India and some special consideration was also given to some factors. All of them are described below:

Strategy for expansion likely to be

Using of strategic models and theories to solve the central issues and showing how these were deployed in the emergent strategies

The central issues of this company may be dealt with by using different kinds of models and theories. Among them, Porter’s Generic Strategies is one of the most suitable models for the process. Four types of strategies can be used from the model to get the desired result and use the model efficiently. They are cost leadership (no additions), cost focus (creating a differently specified product for a niche market), differentiation (make exceptionally accepted products or services) leadership and differentiation focus (Woroch, 1990). These fours are created from two bases and they are vertically used sources of competitive advantages and horizontally markets where business competes. For the better discussion about them from the Biocon organizational perspective and their successful implementation of the subsidiary Clinigene’s following process can be taken into account.

Once one sets this strategy it may help to bring the cost down by setting access capital technology at the starting of the business and very well-organized logistics as well as can sustain in the competitive market in the long run.

Large organizations following a differentiation strategy want to sustain in the by supplying their new product development practices (GUPTA, 2019). Otherwise, the threat outbreak on several faces by competitors following Focus Differentiation strategies in dissimilar market segments.

After analyzing the overall scenario of Clinigene the Biocon SWOT analysis with provide us the best understanding of the focused section of the Indian pharmaceuticals industry. The organization needs to reduce its weaknesses and capabilities by increasing its strength and opportunities in the local market. Clinigene is a critical attempt of the Biocon India Group in such an unpredictable market place (Ghertman, Obadia and Arregle, 2011). The success or failure of the subsidiary can direct effect on the overall reputation and brand image of Biocon. So the company needs to take very careful attempts and cautious steps of progress from the external and internal potential problems. Thus, they are already in a better position compared to the other companies of the local market operating in the Indian pharmaceutical industry.

In 2000 Biocon India launched Clinigene to proceed for the clinical development and research progress. It pursued eventually to offer a broad variety of clinical trial services along with drag development span in two different zones that accordingly needed different kinds of clinical studies (Bureau, 2019). Conducting these studies needs a large market place and a high research and development team. So in porter’s generic strategy, this company falls both in the cost leadership and differentiation leadership categories. So based on the porter’s generic strategy factor the subsidiary needs to focus on both of the sectors to make their further efforts successful.

Demonstrate how the company achieved competitive advantage through their particular choice of strategic management.

The Biocon India Group is a very different and non-traditional pharmaceutical company in the Indian pharma industry. Their organizational structures and dimensions are quite unique and different from the traditional and typical organization of the Indian market. Their philosophy possesses the urge for continuous improvement and thirst for learning to make the future better. It is almost impossible to meet up the valuable standard and the position the organization set in the industry by continuous struggles and new innovation process (Betz, 2011). Each and every business strategy and unique choice of strategic management has gifted them with an excellent competitive advantage over their competitors which is beyond to reach.

Here the significant and praiseworthy strategic management choices of the organization are described to get a minimal idea about the competitive advantage they have achieved in the market. From the theoretical ideas of porter’s value chain analysis the competitive advantage is described below:

The population of the country is genetically diverse, which provides researchers to access ethnic genetic structures with a well-balanced group for clinical studies. They can be used as potential customers as well to sell their products. As clinical trials are the most expensive parts of the drug development process, so India is the perfect market to target as a business and production industry.

So from the overall discussion, we can say that the Indian pharmaceutical market is very lucrative to expand its growth in the near future. So by understanding all the factors and considering the overall market condition, it can be said that the Biocon India Group has an inbuilt competitive advantage from their internal and external environment. They were capable to grab the opportunity of market expansion and the increasing success potential which has blessed them with a continuous competitive advantage from the extremely fruitful market mechanism.

Findings

This study is a descriptive study based on the new subsidiary, Clinigene, of Biocon India Group. The Indian pharmaceutical industry has a major impact on its economic growth and the development of the country’s GDP. There are many advantages and disadvantages to starting and operating a pharmaceuticals company in India.

Advantages

Disadvantage:

The attractiveness of the CRO market:

Contact Research organizations mainly do Research and development work of the business industry. India offers a very profitable market as well as an effective market instrument for the betterment of the company. Some organization offers higher value clinical trials at low cost.

Challenges faced by Clinigene:

Porter’s generic strategy analysis:

After analyzing porter’s strategic model, some new ideas are found on Clinigene. And those are:

Recommendations

Strategic management benefits a business organization by increasing the chance to form and accomplish definite goals through rational and planned footsteps. The Indian pharmaceutical sector has reached a position that became one of the best-organized zones for the whole world. The sustainable global pharmaceuticals industry is the creation of this industry. The expansion of the industry is very praiseworthy and lucrative for the future.

Biocon India Group Limited is a foremost part of this industry, and throughout the study, we have discussed the Indian pharmaceuticals industry, Biocon India Group and it is clinical subsidiary Clinigene (Malek, Rasquinha and Vacani, 1993). The strategic prospects of this association in the above-mentioned market have been estimated and various progress strategies have been advised based on the evaluation. All the criteria which are analyzed over this descriptive study, there are some lacking in this firm that should be minimized or removed from the firm as well as from the pharmaceutical industry. Proper steps should be taken for improving the current scenario. The steps are:

Overall by following all the recommendations, it is possible to ensure the successful establishment and the management of the Clinigene subsidiary of Biocon India Group. By implementing all the possible measures and following them strictly can bring good luck to the pharmaceutical industry by avoiding any major downfall of the organization.

Conclusion

The whole process of Clinigene was a successful movement from the Biocon India Group. It was not only responsible for making money, attracting clients but also was filling the gaps in the Biocon India Group value chain. Though the subsidiary increased the risk from different perspectives such as embarrassment or failure, it also created a fear of swift success (Smith et al., 2019). The philosophy of “Earn as you learn” so far supported the organization in each and every step of progress. The overall concept was very fruitful for the pharmaceuticals’ success and their movement for the future.

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Strategic Management Analysis of Biocon India Group Limited
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