The Top Line

Bayer’s collaborative model: Breaking silos to accelerate impact (Sponsored)

Nov 17, 2025
Christine Roth, Executive Vice President at Bayer Pharmaceuticals, teams up with Dr. Yesmean Wahdan, Senior VP of Medical Affairs, to discuss Bayer's revolutionary Dynamic Shared Ownership model. They highlight how breaking down hierarchies enhances collaboration between R&D and commercialization, speeding up innovation. Their approach has notably shortened regulatory timelines and ensured patient needs are prioritized. With real-world evidence and early market insights, Bayer is transforming drug development to deliver treatments faster and more efficiently.
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INSIGHT

DSO Replaces Hierarchies With Product Teams

  • Bayer's Dynamic Shared Ownership (DSO) replaces functional hierarchies with product- and customer-focused teams to speed decision-making.
  • Teams operate in short 90-day cycles and make ~90% of decisions to drive faster outcomes.
ADVICE

Let Teams Decide And Shift Resources

  • Empower teams to make most operational decisions and limit leaders to architecting the system and making <10% of decisions.
  • Use fluid prioritization to reallocate resources continuously to highest-value opportunities.
ANECDOTE

Oncology Team Halved Submission Time

  • An oncology team completed an SNDA submission in eight weeks versus the usual 16 weeks, using 50% fewer resources and documents.
  • That four-month acceleration could help ~2,000 additional patients in 2025 and add about $200M incremental lifetime value.
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