GSK

On the 17th of November, we visited GSK, also known as GlaxoSmithKline. GSK had been the company that I researched on and as such, I went there with enforced with the knowledge and the things that I wanted to learn. Upon reaching there, it was around 8.45 am in the morning. We entered one of their lecture rooms and listened to talk about the introduction of GSk, what GSK basically do and several of their products. After the lecture, we had the plant tour which involved going to the production plant in lab coats, from the fourth floor back to the first. After the plant, we had a light refreshment and then a last presentation on sustainability.

From this trip to GSK, what I learnt is that this pharmaceutical industry is not an easy one as one has to attend to a lot of things, and that GSK is a very important company to the society. GSK is one of the leading companies in terms of the respiratory with their creation of a device for the asthmatic so as to allow them to ease their attack and depending on the person, it might fully recover.

After the whole trip, thinking back about the presentation on sustainability, what methods that is important in ensuring sustainability is that  one must always be flexible and constantly keep up with the trend. In terms of flexibility, one must always change. For a company, this is in terms of updating and improving their products or business and their way of doing things. In addition, if the companies do not keep improving and their competitors would beat them one day therefore, they must at least catch up or be even better than others. So for GSK, what I suggest is that since they have been constantly improving their products with a lot of emphasis on R & D, they could venture out some more such as generalizing in other areas and perhaps put more emphasis in that new area. This will allow them to be able to do much more and better than others.

Overall from the trip to GSK, I really learnt a lot as there were  much that I didn't know from the internet and the experience is priceless. I also enjoyed myself as the plant tour had been an eye-opener with the explanation for each and every floor. I thank GSK for providing me with this opportunity and wish them all the best in the future.