Success Principles: Making Pharmaceutical Business Development Fit for Purpose

Decision Resources
December 13, 2007
30 Pages - SKU: DECR1638048
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In today's competitive and evolving pharmaceutical landscape, Business Development is a strategic lifeline for all companies. The more successful Business Development departments share factors that clearly distinguish them from the pack. These success principles can be used by other companies to reinvent the role, direction, and operation of their Business Development functions so they, too, can be "Fit for Purpose."

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  • Corporate management in successful pharmaceutical companies invariably recognizes and taps into Business .Development's understanding of the future and integrates Business Development's thinking into strategyformulationprocesses. What aspects of the pharmaceutical environment does pharmaceutical BusinessDevelopment particularly need to understand in order to be successful?
  • Most pharmaceutical companies have not seen Business Development as the future lifeblood of the company, .and their Business Development groups are poorly equipped to take on this new strategic role. What arethe most common shortcomings of Business Development departments? How are these shortcomingsaffecting pharmaceutical companies' ability to succeed? How can companies best redirect andreorganize their Business Development departments?
  • Partly as a result of Pharma's lack of internally generated new products, product acquisitions have become .increasingly important. What is the primary reason many pharmaceutical companies fail to acquirenew products that they have targeted? What aspect of the product acquisition process do Business Development strategies need to focus on?
Scope
  • Business Development as an Indispensable Strategic Lifeline: . the tools of Business Development The 1990s-Pharma Enters the Real World: . technology changes and new customer economics
  • Consolidation: . the rumble that became a landslide; the view of pharmaceutical management; the effect on new product innovation
  • The turn of the millennium: . pressures mount; the seven key factors molding today's landscape
  • The industry's schizophrenic approach to Business Development: . the not invented here mind-set; Big Pharma sits up and fi nally takes notice; a shift in strategic outlook
  • What is wrong with today's pharmaceutical Business Development?: . the consequences of funding issues, unseasoned staff, and counterproductive internal relationships
  • Business Development success principles: . key factors aiding the identifi cation of customers' future needs and desires; the evolution of Fit for Purpose and complex business strategies
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