Memo: ThermoFisher

ThermoFisher is one of the world's largest producers of scientific instrumentation. They are spread widely around the world operating in a vast assortment of countries where their 33,000 staff conduct research to advance the world's ability to engage in scientific endeavors. The various trends that we have evaluated in this class have definitive effects on the nature of their business due to the inherent difficulties of cross-enterprise collaboration brought on by their global structure and the accellerating pace of processing capacity (which in many cases fuels the advancement of their major product lines). Having grown mainly through acquisitions, they now also possess the difficulty of moving from a holding company towards an operative structure, which could also provide difficulties if one examines that movement through the lense of the various laws we have been discussing.

I will want to address the following in my memo:

1. How will increased processing power and decentralized processing (cloud) effect their research product offerings?

2. With the greater mobility of labor, how will the company protect an leverage its vast intellectual property in the future and how will it keep pace in research against a global environment of competitors?

3. Internally, how can it leverage the power of the "network of people" to maximize its research capacity during its transition from holding to operating status?