Caged Companies

September, 2009    O2N-007 Caged Companies When was the last time you heard someone in your company or organisation talk about change? Changing strategies, changing business models, changing culture, changing attitudes. Modern management philosophy...

Matchmaking process

October, 2009    SM-050 Matchmaking process Pharmaceutical marketing, it has often been observed, is a matching process – the need to marry the capabilities and limitations of the huge and complex life-sciences knowledge domain with the...

Straddling or Focusing: The moment of truth

September, 2009    SFP-014 Straddling or Focusing: The moment of truth Dr Brian D. Smith suggests that our industry is about to prove or disprove a fundamental academic theory: that straddling generics and innovation is an unsustainable business...

Good Idea In Theory

September, 2009    SMM-047 Good Idea In Theory Theory has a bad name among marketers. As the antonym to practical or realistic, it has become a pejorative term that we use to disparage any idea we think has little value. Yet, when we belittle it,...

Self Promotion

September, 2009    SMM-045 Self Promotion Marketers should apply strategic marketing tenets to personal development for more lucrative and fulfilling careers.