PHARMA COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE
“Competitive Intelligence is a systematic and ethical program,for gathering the external
information,and analyzing those information that can affect company’s plans, its operations
and their decisions making process.
“In other words I can say like, Competitive Intelligence is a process of,collecting and analyzing 7
the, competitors’ clinical, commercial and regulatory related data, this process helps in. na \ 4 Srotepe
strategic decision making forthe Client” thetsion fr the
Day by day, there is increasing competition between pharmaceutical companies, for
‘example,patent is expiring for few molecules,companies wants to maintain their pipeline vary
strong, and also companies businessmedels,and strategies are keep on changing. Soin order to
fulfill these gaps pharmaceutical companies require an efficient Cl strategy
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Usually Cl process will be like:
> First we need to establish the scope of the project,and that should be clear
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sb What are the requirements of the client?
+ How client requires the data?
‘+ What things has to be covered in the project?
> Once the scope is decided, we need to collect the information from various ethical
sources either from secondary research or from primary research and even sometimes
from the both sources.
Those source includes,
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‘ompany press releases ——
+ Regulatory sites
‘+ Business magazines and
st Conferences etc.,
> Finally, the obtained data should be analyzed/as per the client requirement,and that
should be delivered in a proposed format as pie the timeline
Then coming to Benefits of Cl Process:
Cl can identify the strategies of competitorsby analyzing products and their market,
which can be utilized for business strategy development to the client
Cl process can help the companies, to expand their business in to different regions.
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> Many companies are utilizing Cl process,
4 To observe latest trend in the market
4 To find out the gaps and
*& Also to develop competitive marketing plan.
Scanned with CamScannerCollected data is categorized into 3 levels ~~
1, Clinical:
iF Includes, Clinical trials related changes, data releases of trials (these can be collected from ct.gov,
PUBMED, journals, conferences etc.,)
2. Regulatory:
‘a nents Te regulatory submission, acceptance of the applications, approval timelines (these are
collected from regulatory websites, company press releases etc.,)
3. Commercial:
jHncludes data about collaborations between companies, mergers and acquisitions, launch process, and
all company marketing strategies (these data can be collected from company websites, goggle search,
company investor presentations, conferences etc.)
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