Eli Lilly and Company

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Eli Lilly and Company
Organization Information
Ryan A Robinson

• Hometown
• Afton, Wyoming
• Undergraduate Degree
• Pre-Physical Therapy
• Brigham Young University
• Work Experience
• Teaching and supervising teachers and
  missionaries, and leading change projects at the
  missionary training centers in the U.S. and
  Brazil
• Career Goal
• To develop effective organizations in which
  people are happy and productive

• Products/Services
• Eli Lilly and Company creates and delivers
  innovative medicines that enable people to live
  longer, healthier and more active lives. (from
  website www.lilly.com)
• Background
• Lillys headquarters is located in Indianapolis,
  Indiana where the company was founded in 1876 by
  Colonel Eli Lilly, a Civil War veteran committed
  to providing high quality, effective medicines.
• Culture
• Lillys values are 1) Respect for people, 2)
  Integrity, and 3) Excellence. These values are a
  very strong part of the companys culture.

Lessons Learned
Summer Projects

• Lesson 1 Change and People
• Even when people want change, when the time comes
  to make the changes there will still likely be a
  lot of emotion and resistance to the change.
• Lesson 2 Ambiguity
• The ability to turn something fairly ambiguous
  into something more clear is highly valued in
  organizations.
• Lesson 3 Systems Thinking
• It is important to be able to see the big
  picture effects of an organizational change, but
  more important is the ability to come up with a
  few good interventions that will address them.

• Project 1
• Facilitate and document the redesign process of
  the HR organization for Lillys research labs.
• Project 2
• Benchmark HR practices of other major companies.
• Project 3
• Design an assessment tool to help determine fit
  within the new HR organization.
• Project 4
• Put together a basic implementation plan taking
  into consideration the systemic effects of the
  new org design.