Maximizing New Product Launch Effectiveness
PMCQ Education Day
Rose Schuett, Director, Marketing - Launch Management 1
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We are all familiar with benchmark reports and their recommendations
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Market Assessment Thought Leader Development PR strategy Health Economics Promotions Management Numerous other activities
Then, why do so many products fail to meet expectations?
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Launch Management Milestones Clinical Development Phases: Phase III
Submission
Launch
Corresponding Commercial Activity Sets:
1. MARKET ASSESSMENT
2. COMPETITIVE ASSESSMENT
7-10 years pre-launch
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5. PROMOTION PLANNING, EVALUATION & OPTIMIZATION
3. MARKET POTENTIAL & FORECASTING
6. MONITORING PERFORMANCE
Post Launch
7. CONTROLLING PERFORMANCE
4. BRAND & SALES FORCE OPTIMIZATION
2-3 years pre-launch
1-2 years pre-launch
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1 year post-launch
1-2 years post-launch
In nearly all markets, success is defined in the first 3 to 4 quarters 60% 60% of of monthly monthly volume volume at at year year 33 achieved achieved in in first first 12 12 months months (CAN) (CAN)
NRx 16,000 14,000 12,000 10,000 8,000 6,000 4,000 2,000 Month
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Avandia
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Remeron
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Travatan
Companies are striving to… Maximize the uptake curve… 35,000 Total 30,000 Cdn Sales ($ 000) 25,000
Crestor Forecast
20,000 15,000
Pariet Forecast
10,000
Spiriva Forecast
5,000 Months post launch
Zelnorm Forecast
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Crestor
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Pariet
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Aranesp
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Pegetron
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Spiriva
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Bextra
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Zelnorm
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…And reduce time to peak sales 18 16
Years since launch
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Years to US$ 2 billion
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Faster to reach US$ 2 billion sales
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Revenue expectations have changed . . . . . . and so have investments
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2. Fast multicountry roll-out means multinational coordination & simultaneous resource investment
Launch earlier
3. Rapid competition means a constant post-launch challenge to generate and promote new clinical stories to maintain competitiveness
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1. Pre-launch promotional investment becomes crucial to maximize rapidity of launch take-off
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4. Post launch promotional and clinical investment must both be high decisions on where investment will be most effective become key
20 Years ago Today Source: Sir Richard Sykes, Scrip article (adapted)
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A new reality is emerging •Market access, including regulatory, pricing and reimbursement and formulary approval is becoming increasingly challenging and complex •No evidence = no label, no formulary and high co-pay •FDA (& Health Canada) will mandate responsibility to pharma for risk management and post-marketing surveillance post-launch •Increasing segmentation will challenge current sales force mantras on size, deployment and overall optimization •More biotech and segmentation will change sales force skills portfolio requirements •Patients are more accessible than previously thought and will demand increased attention
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Maximizing New Product Launch Effectiveness
“BLOCKBUSTERS ARE NOT DISCOVERED, THEY’RE BUILT.” -Author Unknown
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Pharmaceutical & Biotech Companies often fail to maximize product launches An alternate 4P’s for product launch success 1. Plan ¾ Given the complexity of launching new products, a planning process can be critical to success 2. Positioning ¾ Target appropriate audiences while maintaining a cohesive & consistent brand identity 3. Promotion ¾ Brand management (not product marketing) aligned with product’s positioning strategy 4. Product ¾ P&R and distribution operational readiness including training and incentive programs 10
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Launch planning can significantly increase the chances of success Effects of Launch Plan Detail on Success 70
Percentage of Respondents
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• About 70% of new product launches experience delays
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• Only 7% incorporate a crisis plan in their launch planning
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Highly Successful Launches
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• Flexibility is a key component of plan development
Less Successful Launches
• Scenario planning and wargaming can be extremely useful tools during launch planning
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Launch Management Milestones 1. MARKET ASSESSMENT 6. MONITOR & CONTROL PERFORMANCE
2. COMPETITIVE ASSESSMENT
Sales
Time
5. PROMOTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
Launch 3. MARKET POTENTIAL 4. BRAND OPTIMIZATION
7-10 years pre-launch 12
2-3 years pre-launch
1-2 years pre-launch
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1 year post-launch
1-2 years post-launch
Market & Competitive Assessment Business Questions: -What is the size of the market? -What is driving the growth and how does this vary by channel? -What are the treatment patterns in this TC? 1. MARKET ASSESSMENT
-How many patients are suffering from this disease? -What stage is this market: growth, maturity, or decline?
Business Questions: 2. COMPETITIVE ASSESSMENT
-Who are the players in the market? Today? Tomorrow? -What products are driving volume? Who is on formulary? -Is market share by player growing or declining? -What channels do they play in and how much do they spend to promote their products?
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Environment as a driver of blockbuster growth A blockbuster is the product of its environment as well as promotional activity, product development and the company or companies that launch it
PRODUCT ENVIRONMENT BLOCKBUSTER
PROMOTION
COMPANY
The development of a detailed product launch plan can dramatically improve the probability of a successful launch 14
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Market & Competitive Assessment Key Business Outcomes: 1. Provide a macro-level assessment of the target market, the potential patient population, and early indicators of market entry opportunities and challenges. •
The outcome of this assessment forms the basis for initial market segmentation, opportunity sizing, and performance expectations, and highlights critical assumptions to test throughout the launch process.
2. A comprehensive competitive assessment should provide indepth information about the current and future participants in this market. This set of activities should result in a SWOT Analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) for the launching product.
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Market Potential Business Questions: -What is the forecast for patients, prescriptions, and sales of the brand and its therapeutic category? -What are the potential uptake curves and forecast launch 3. MARKET POTENTIAL & FORECASTING
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milestones? -What can we learn by evaluating past (analog) launches? -What indication(s) will be promoted at launch? -How does this impact our estimate of market potential?
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Gain insight into the therapeutic class and then, use analogs to inform your baseline forecast
IMS ANALOGUE PLANNER New Product: CANADA - Quarterly Sales (LC) 7,000
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HECTOROL - 2003/03/01
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NEORAL - 1995/03/01
REBETRON - 1999/04/01
REMINYL - 2001/07/01
SUSTIVA - 1999/03/01
Market Potential & Forecasting
Key Business Outcomes: 1. This activity results in an initial sales and prescription forecast that should be refined as you progress through the Launch Management process and acquire new insights about your brand and its opportunity in the marketplace.
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Brand & Sales Force Business Questions: Optimization -What are the physician and sufferer attitudes about current treatments? -How should the market be segmented? -Which prescribers should be profiled and targeted based on: -Adoption patterns?; Prescribing potential? -Switching vs. loyalty?; Attitudes, values & beliefs? -What is the ideal messaging strategy for the brand?
4. BRAND OPTIMIZATION
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Getting it “Right” through all phases of the New Product Launch!
------- Driven by the Right Segmentation ------Right Customers
Right Frequency
Right Message
Right Size
Actionable customer segments reflecting true opportunities
How often to call on each customer; coordinate routing across multiple sales forces
Positions product based on physician’s segment profile, and use commensurate collateral
Does your size and structure reflect growth opportunities?
Right Deployment
Right Training
Right Tools
Right Motivation
Unbalanced territories will negatively impact growth
Enables reps to deliver quality calls consistently
Allows sales force to focus on selling
Does incentive compensation drive behavior consistent with company’s growth strategy?
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Segmentation is the cornerstone from which other critical launch activities are grounded. . . Segmentation data can be collected via secondary data or primary research
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Predictive Modeling Integrated Segmentation (includes all below)
Psychographics / Attitudinal Longitudinal Patient Segmentation
and facilitates . . . Additional Analyses Age & Gender Payer-Type
Stakeholder Affiliations
VALUE
Behavioral Segmentation Demographic Segmentation
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Cross –Tab / Overlap Volumetric-(Deciling)
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INNOVATION
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Provides insight into other stakeholder or key influences on the prescriber
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Effective segmentation combines behaviors, attitudes and longitudinal insight…
Brand loyalty Rx share trends Adoption & Switching Prescribing concentration Group Practice Influence Managed Care Influence Rx volume/share Demographics
Titration Patient switching New therapy starts Concomitant medication Continuing therapy Practice profiles Compliance
Integrated Attitudinal & Behavioral Segmentation 22
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Managed care Treatment approaches Communication preferences Reimbursement issues Clinical concerns
…to drive Sales and Marketing Strategies by Segment Longitudinal Insight Attitudes Behaviors Demographics Integrated Attitudinal & Behavioral Segmentation
Segment 1 Marketing Approach A
Segment 2 Marketing Approach B
Segment 3 Marketing Approach C
Segment 4 Marketing Approach D
Sales Plan A
Sales Plan B
Sales Plan C
Sales Plan D
Positioning Messaging Promotion mix 23
Marketing Strategy
Sales Force Strategy
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Targeting Sizing Deployment
Analytics – Case Study Anticonvulsant Market Integrated Segmentation
Client problem/opportunity
Results
• 2-year old AED product experiencing flattened growth
• Net gain of $28M in revenue the first year
• Specialty field force competing with “mega” field forces
• Deployed against targets as a company, not just a field force
• Product was the basis (funding) for a 2-3 year gap in the portfolio pipeline
• Representative buy-in and motivation fueled success
How IMS made the client successful
• Completed an in-depth Integrated Segmentation • Worked with the client to pilot and implement the segmentation in the field force • Worked with the client and their agency to update product positioning and messages. • Tracked and reported on success, while assisting on teams to address “hot spots”
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Brand & Sales Force Optimization
Key Business Outcome: 1. Optimizing a brand requires intimate knowledge of the customers and competitors. Having pulled together this intelligence, the detailed marketing and sales strategies as well as objectives for launching the new drug can be established.
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Promotional Planning, Evaluation & Optimization Business Questions: -Which combinations of activities will have the greatest impact?
5. PROMOTIONAL PLANNING, prescribing behavior? EVALUATION & -Which physicians were most impacted? OPTIMIZATION
-Did the promotion change physicians’
-Did the promotion have the desired financial impact?
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Key drivers determine promotional spending for potential blockbusters Low $400 million
Promotional Spend
High $1 billion
Small
Market size
Large
Small
Number of people
Large
Easy
Ease of raising awareness in physicians and potential patients in order to raise level of diagnosis/treatment
Small (specialty drug)
Number of physicians targeted (GP vs. specialty drug)
Difficult
Large (GP drug)
Low
Ability of patient to influence physician choice of Rx
High
Low
Promotional spend by competitors
High
No new competitors
Low
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Threat of new competitive launches Desire/need of company to build strength in therapeutic area
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Strong competitor launches approaching High
A web of influencers has increased the complexity & number of pre-launch & launch activities Successful companies select critical activities / emerging strategies for specific market constituents
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Opinion leaders Physicians
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Advocate Development Publications Medical Marketing Continuous relationship marketing
Patients
• DTC – patient advertising • Continuous relationship marketing
Payers
• Medical Marketing • Pharmaco-economic trials
Customers require about 9 promotional encounters to sufficiently raise awareness and use. Customers only notice 1 in 3 promotional activities
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Leading companies have begun to target an expanded view of decision makers and the customer interaction process Payer Interactions Public & Private, CDR
Direct Interactions Reps
Peer / Staff Interactions Patient Out of Pocket
Medical Liaisons
CME
Programs/Sponsorships
Group Practice
Information Center Product Info Requests
Key Opinion Leaders Prescribing Behavior (Not necessarily decision-making)
Journal Advertising Conferences
Referring Network Nurses / NPs
Patient Types Requests/Preferences Caregivers
Consumer Interactions 29
Hospital
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Innovative customer models: 9 Enhance direct interactions 9 Influence physicians indirectly
Gleevec commands a global niche market with clear differential advantage
Gleevec approached the market with a new strategy Patient-Driven Patient-Driven Demand Demand
Comprehensive Comprehensive Access Access Program Program
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Unlike Unlike most most biologics, biologics, Gleevec’s Gleevec’s demand demand was was driven driven by by patient patient demand demand from from the the earliest earliest development development phase phase
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Novartis Novartis employed employed an an innovative innovative pricing pricing strategy strategy -- $2,200 $2,200 per per month month with with potential potential indefinite indefinite use use
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Novartis Novartis was was able able to to rally rally patient patient activists who aggressively activists who aggressively lobbied lobbied for for early early access access and and fast-track fast-track approval approval
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HE HE studies studies in in the the US US and and the the UK UK aimed aimed to show that Gleevec was cost-effective to show that Gleevec was cost-effective compared compared to to usual usual care care
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AA global global assistance assistance program program extended extended exceptionally exceptionally broad broad discounting discounting to to uninsured uninsured
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Novartis Novartis offered offered the the following following terms terms in in the US: the US:
Data-Driven Data-Driven Positioning Positioning ••
Gleevec Gleevec stressed stressed its its targeted targeted nature nature and and its its out-standing out-standing clinical clinical data data
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The The message message was was “precise “precise targeting of the targeting of the molecular molecular abnormality abnormality that that leads leads to to CML” CML”
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Key Key communication communication points points were were “outstanding “outstanding hematological hematological response”, response”, “unprecedented “unprecedented cytogenetic cytogenetic response” response” and and “well“welltolerated tolerated and and convenient” convenient”
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Novartis Novartis used used evidence evidence based based marketing – most marketing – most KOL’s KOL’s were were investigators investigators and and brand brand champions champions
AA key key segmentation segmentation base base was was “Internet-positive” “Internet-positive” patients, patients, who who created created aa world-wide world-wide network network and and petitioned petitioned the the company company and and regulators regulators to to accelerate accelerate approval approval
Source: Building Global Biobrands – Simon & Kotler
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Free Free drug drug for for < < $43,000 $43,000 per per yr yr
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Drug Drug cost cost capped capped at at 20% 20% for for $43,000 $100,000 per $43,000 - $100,000 per year year
Fosamax – Redefining a Market
90,000,000 80,000,000
Total Sales ($)
• Fosamax was first to market • Osteoporosis had low awareness • There were no globally accepted disease definition • Osteoporosis was traditionally defined as fractures • Existing treatments ranged from Calcitonin & Vitamin D to Fluoride
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Merck had a 3-pronged strategy: 1. Expanding diagnosis 2. Obtaining multiple indications 3. Developing new formulations
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• Merck worked with manufacturers of densitometry and even took equity positions • Merck funded and managed the National Osteoporosis Risk Assessment program • Low-cost scanners started to appear in physician offices and osteoporosis managements started to move from the specialty offices to PCP’s
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Promotional Planning, Evaluation & Optimization Key Business Outcome: 1. A thorough analysis of the level and effectiveness of various promotional vehicles in this market establishes the framework for the launch promotional plan, including:
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Definition of promotional elements to be used
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Required budget
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Resource allocation
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Monitor & Control Performance Business Questions: -What are the key drivers of launch performance to be monitored? -What performance metrics best support our
6. MONITORING PERFORMANCE
product’s marketing and financial objectives? -What information will be shared throughout the organization? -What is the product uptake, penetration and usage over time? -How is our product performing against plan and Corporate expectations? Vs. the Competition?
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7. CONTROL PERFORMANCE
Monitor and Control Performance Key Business Outcome: 1. Effective Monitoring of Launch Performance requires: •
The definition of key performance indicators, which enable the organization to get a timely and actionable read on their in-market results.
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The implementation of efficient and effective enterprise-wide communications and reporting procedures, enabling the entire organization to have the same read on results.
2. This activity generates the “risks and contingencies” of the launch plan providing insight and direction to the team during the critical first 12 to 24 months on the market.
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Conclusions – Maximizing Launch Effectiveness •NPLs are processes, not events — they require on-going management and measurement •Products may fail to attain their maximum potential due, in part, to the complexity of the commercialization process •Launch success is multi-factorial, is enhanced by skilled and trained individuals, and organizations that have a sense of urgency, flexibility and willingness to be innovative •Commercialization success is boosted by meticulous planning, independent of strategies and tactics •Organizations that plan for and review NPL metrics as standard practice, better position themselves for timely, focused responses to market results •At the end-of-the-day, the company that knows their customers best and develops brand loyalty will win •The right strategy and tactics are by-products of customer and marketplace intimacy 35
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Thank You.
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