To stay on top of a constantly evolving market that presents new challenges every day, product managers need to bolster branding strategies and raise their marketing IQ.
There's a temptation for companies to view predictive markets as a silver bullet. Can crowds actually do a better job than "experts," or is that viewpoint more of a fad than a foundation for accurate future forecasting?
In these cost cutting times, no drugmaker can afford to keep shoveling money down the Rebate Black Hole. Here's how to optimize your ROI and push back against the growing pressure of third-party rebates
Despite the downside in ad spend, an upside remains in the digital space that's wide open for exploration.
The hunt is on. Generic drug companies must find executives with the requisite capabilities for managing a global yet highly local business, and that can maintain the entrepreneurial culture on which their competitive advantage depends.
In an era in which companies can forfeit $1 million each day they delay a product launch-and being second can mean failure-pharma executives are under pressure to make risk and opportunity decisions in less time than ever.
Jean-Marc Niemetz on forming partnerships with the industry's major stakeholders
After last year's anthrax scare, people desperately began stockpiling Cipro (ciprofloxacin) and other products to prepare for bioterrorism attacks. Not wanting to bother with a visit to their doctor and not willing to pay the product's high retail price of several dollars a pill, they began ordering Cipro-or what they believed to be Cipro-online, from dozens of websites offering it at discounted rates. The problem is, there is no guarantee they were getting the real thing.
Pre-call planning is a necessity if you're going to move your physicians and your productivity to another level.
Generative artificial intelligence, key new product launches, and the evolution of the go-to-market model are among key trends to watch in the year ahead.
The hunt is on. Generic drug companies must find executives with the requisite capabilities for managing a global yet highly local business, and that can maintain the entrepreneurial culture on which their competitive advantage depends.
Electronic pedigree is the future of supply chain security. Those still waiting and seeing might what to stop waiting and start tracking
Industry insiders explain how pharma companies are reorganizing their salesforces in the wake of industry-wide layoffs
Driven by the quest for innovation, the intensity of competition, and the pressure to create megabrands and megamergers, pharmaceutical executives are exploring an influential force still untapped by most marketing and communication departments-the power of emotion.
Defining, evaluating, and utilizing the Target Product Profile.
Communications planning in 2009 and beyond will include online, offline, mobile, out-of-home, point-of-sale, gaming consoles, and more-even your car's navigation system will be tied to Google! Perhaps most importantly, communications planning will begin to include social influence marketing.
There's a temptation for companies to view predictive markets as a silver bullet. Can crowds actually do a better job than "experts," or is that viewpoint more of a fad than a foundation for accurate future forecasting?
Competition for physicians' time has become so intense that some medical groups have severely restricted or banned reps altogether. Part of that strained relationship can be traced back to some of the sales techniques used by aggressive pharma salespeople. Physicians have become wary of being "sold" and often do not trust the information reps provide. Many doctors no longer feel that sales reps help provide better care for patients. Rather, physicians often come away feeling as though they just had an encounter with a used car dealer. To improve their relationships with medical professionals, pharma sales reps should avoid ten
Lawyers from Duane Morris LLP offer their take on the Supreme Court's groundshaking preemption decision
Courts are often hesitant to enforce such restrictions, so employers should take certain steps prior to and in the process of filing such a lawsuit.
Outsourcing saves money-except when it doesn't. Here's how to decide what to do.
The days of pharma sales reps going office-to-office with samples and brochures are done. These days, they need to turn their attention to payers, pharmacists, and consumers
New research points to the power of a highly educated sales force, supporting the case for a voluntary educational standard
In a time of slow growth, true innovators forge new relationships with core customers