Tag Archives: product launch

Digital Marketing Leaders Discuss Top Tools & Channels for Enhancing Product Launch

Each quarter, the Best Practices Digital Marketing Consortium convenes a virtual roundtable meeting to bring together life-sciences executives to discuss successes, failures and new opportunities to use digital marketing to transform the bio-pharma customer engagement model. Our most recent meeting,

5 Important Trends Shaping Pharma Business in 2016

In a sector as fast-changing as biopharmaceuticals, it’s important to look beyond today’s hot topics to identify the long-term factors which are really driving change in the industry. From a list that could include a hundred headline-grabbing trends, we’ve pinned

New Series: Blockbuster Pharmaceutical Drugs Launch Evolution (Part-1)

Take a look at the slide below and see if you can answer which of the 5 drugs had a peak sales year of $13.7 billion. The answer? – Lipitor While Lipitor sold a gigantic $13.7 billion in their peak sales year,

Adopting the New Patient Journey Framework for Marketing

Marketing within the healthcare industry has been rapidly changing due to the growing influence of patients. Physicians are no longer the main focus in marketing when trying to determine market access and product launch success. Because patients are becoming more

Role of Medical Affairs Increasing in Oncology Launch

The Medical Affairs function plays a vital role in a host of oncology activities, including identification and engagement of Key Thought Leaders to guidance of commercial strategies and launch resources management. It is becoming increasingly apparent that a successful launch

Thou Shalt Build Credibility But Plan for the Worst

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As pharma companies plan for the launch of new products, much of the discussion centers around how to position a new drug or device to the rest of the world. Still, much of that same planning can be internalized and

Success Factors & Lessons Learned in New Product Launches

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In today’s competitive & crowded marketplace, biopharmaceutical companies are investing more and more resources to develop and launch new products for cardiovascular therapeutic areas. Consequently, recent industry product launches have produced both noteworthy failures and successes. It is now, more

Launching & Growing Multiple Brands in the Same Therapeutic Area

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Challenge: How does an organization launch & grow multiple products for a common therapeutic area while keeping costs down & efficiently deploying Sales & Marketing resources? Launching and growing multiple products for a common therapeutic area is a challenging proposition.

Planning Groups for New Product Planning Growing in Importance

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With the growth of patent expirations, the importance of planning groups in new pharma product ventures has grown. These new product launch groups are faced with the pressures of efficiently developing new products with both minimum risk and maximum value.

Pharmaceutical New Product Planning: The Role of Medical Affairs Critical in Defining New Paths for Success

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New product planning (NPP) groups have continually played a critical role in encouraging successful product launches. In today’s marketplace, the function has been forced to evolve in order to cope with various forces that have been driving industry changes and

Best Practices in Brand Messaging to Prepare the Market for a Product Launch

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Best Practices, LLC Sr. Analyst Martha Haswell discusses how top pharma companies create strong brand management messaging to drive the launch of new drugs. Listen as she shares some key thoughts around this important facet of product launch. Link to