pharmaphorum January 14, 2021
In this second ‘Nine for 2021‘ article, IQVIA’s Sarah Rickwood looks at four issues which will directly impact pharma in 2021: the permanent changes in customer engagement models, the implications of a geographic re-balancing towards the East, CNS as the new value growth area for the 2020s, and the new biologics environment as biosimilars accelerate.
Focus on customer engagement impact
The customer engagement story of 2020 could be summarised in three themes: trend break, agility and remote interaction. The trend break was the most immediately measurable commercial model impact. For April 2020 almost all face-to-face contact with healthcare professionals (HCPs) ceased. Preventing virus transmission, as well as “getting out of the way” of healthcare professionals pivoting to address the virus...