Challenging times lay ahead for the sales departments in the pharma industry. The COVID-19 pandemic will surely not be the first disruption, as recent geopolitical tensions, and economic turmoil show. Agile and adaptive sales enablement is thus a must-have in the coming months and years.
The September 2016 Issue of MedicinMan features articles by Vivek Hattangadi, K. Hariram, Preeti Mohile, Mrudul Kansara and Chandan Kumar on topics such as The Entrepreneurial Mindset for Pharma Sales Professionals, Rural Marketing Challenges and Opportunities, the #Finding60InIndia Campaign to identify Progeria sufferers and more.
The new sparkling DIME (Digi MarketEr) are the ones who embrace digital transformation with open arms and voraciously feed on data analytics to satisfy their performance outcomes with an informed business decision. The benefit of being DIME is that it propels data management out of the hands of individual stakeholders, and puts data sets with insights on to center glass table (Transparent workplace) for informed decision making.
How had Indian Pharma responded to the challenges brought on by the Covid19 crisis and the inability to connect with doctors and other Rx influencers?
Is it back to business-as-usual or have some companies learned from their mistakes and become digital savvy?
How will Indian Pharma cope with the possibility of another lockdown and meeting restrictions looming in view of the rising Omicron wave?