New Product Development Strategies

By Author: Kirthy Shetty
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The glossies of a new product don't reveal the hours of hard work riding behind it. The first step towards a new pharmaceutical product is a successful market research campaign. The data gathered from a market research is pivotal in shaping the direction of resource allocating and business strategy.

Long and costly product development cycles make it essential for pharmaceutical companies to maximize limited staff and resources to the development of compounds with the greatest potential market value.

From the time a company's R&D (Research and Development) group begins to develop a new prescription medicine until it receives FDA approval to market the drug in the United States, a drug company typically spends $1 billion over the course of 10 to 15 years. 

Leading companies are integrating commercial insights earlier and earlier into the new product process in an effort to identify and target promising compounds, reduce development cycle time, focus resources for greatest impact and increase their potential for launching a blockbuster drug. 

Early-Stage Commercialization activities range from ...
... therapeutic opportunity and competitive landscape assessments to thought-leader focus groups, initial pricing studies, and pre-efficacy forecasts during pre-clinical and Phases I and II development. Global pharmaceutical companies must find ways to improve early-stage decision making and enhance product design using commercial insights to gain an overall competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Organizations are largely looking at market research companies to help them generate data that can justify and shape a new product development and help in new product marketing. What the organizations look forward to from these market research companies are market research reports that can help the organizations identify winning strategies, structures, and best practices in early-stage product commercialization and portfolio management.

The market research agencies compile these reports by conducting insightful interviews with executives at leading biopharmaceutical companies and learning about what worked best for their organizations.

This provides an indication of important efforts in the new product marketing strategy such as the invaluable work done through the early commercialization groups and the areas of benefit such as - optimizing the value of assets, driving alignment of product development with unmet patient needs, identifying commercial viability of drug candidates and helping to redirect funding from projects with lower potential to those with higher potential for success, focusing all parties on areas expected to have the greatest return on investment, enabling project prioritization, facilitating collaboration between commercial and clinical development staff, informing internal and external investment decisions, continuously monitoring and communicating changes in the market that affect product potential, paving the way for successful product launch etc.

By combining these invaluable insights, organizations stand to gain with their new product marketing plans and strategies.

Kirthy Shetty, Expert Author.
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