Pharmaceuticals
Looking forward to meet the needs of the customer
The pharmaceuticals marketplace is rapidly changing and for organisations to be successful, they must significantly transform their businesses to better meet the needs of their customers.
Traditionally, the imperative for change has focused on the external pressures of an increasingly competitive industry landscape, a shrinking pipeline of new products, and a tougher regulatory climate. Looking forward, smart and lean pharmaceutical companies will be distinguished by flexibility and connectivity, enabling them to react quickly to both customer and market changes.
Closing the information gap
Customer interactions are getting faster and more unpredictable. They want to interact with pharmaceutical companies directly - physicians still regard contact with sales representatives as an important way of learning about diseases and treatments and building a relationship of trust with a pharmaceutical company. Proactive patients are aware of pharmaceutical companies as sources of medical information, and many would like more direct interaction with them. Physicians would welcome the opportunity to collaborate with pharmaceutical companies on innovative projects that will improve patient outcomes while reducing healthcare costs.
Faced with these demands, smart organisations must leverage the technologies available today to allow them to interact with both physicians, and patients, as well as with the institutions they represent. With the rising use of interactive customer channels, such as the Internet and call centres, pharmaceutical companies must manage an entirely new set of direct, real-time customer interactions.
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