Catalyzed by the pandemic, the pharma industry quickly progressed from being digitally agnostic to a state of preparedness.
The shift required the industry to experiment with technology in its customer-facing plans, which resulted in many cases the creation of random acts of digital, often without a cohesive overarching strategy.
Can pharma do better? The answer lies in understanding the utility of their digital assets while building a mindset to transform, and ensuring that teams within the organization do not work at cross-purposes.
Special issue, focusing on the generic versus branded debate that has opened up post the government mandate that Doctors should online prescribe generics.
The July 2016 issue of MedicinMan with articles by Piyush Agarwal, K. Hariram, Vivek Hattangadi, Anjali Sharma, Chandan Kumar, RB Balakrishna and Pankaj Mehrotra
In a World Economic Forum talk, Professor Sumantra Ghosal - the founding Dean of the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad - talked about the "Smell of the Workplace" as a metaphor to describe the need for creating a new context that enables employees to change their mindset from that of Constraint, Compliance, Control and Contract to that of Stretch, Discipline, Trust and Support.