For Interactive Marketing Professionals (Length: 15 pages)

February 8, 2008

Grassroots Innovation For Life Sciences eMarketers

Use Three Activism Strategies To Achieve Lasting Physician Marketing Innovation

by Chloe Stromberg

with Elizabeth Boehm, Emily Bowen


Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

eMarketers in life sciences firms live a Sisyphean existence. They're tasked with helping their company's brands innovate, but cultural forces thwart their efforts before technologies are fully tested. eMarketers lack the budget and authority to enact broad-based culture transformation programs, but they need business transformation to succeed with their innovation goals. eMarketing change agents need to borrow from the playbooks of real grassroots activists to get over and around life sciences firms' cultural challenges. Activism strategy offers three key lessons: 1) get invited in; 2) stage successful battles; and 3) keep the pressure on. To embrace this new political dimension of their jobs, eMarketers will have to make important changes in the way they work.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemLife Sciences eMarketers Face A Sisyphean Task

itemExternal Pressure For HCP Marketing Innovation Is Increasing

itemCultural Forces Thwart Innovation Efforts Before Technologies Are Fully Tested

itemeMarketers Need An Activism Strategy To Jumpstart Innovation

itemThe Master Of Activism Strategy Offers Three Lessons

itemLesson No. 1: Get Invited In

itemLesson No 2: Stage Successful Battles

itemLesson No. 3: Keep The Pressure On

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itemeMarketers Must Rethink Their Job Parameters

Forrester interviewed six life sciences companies as well as Allscripts, Aptilon, DB Marketing, Epocrates, Eularis, Group DCA, Harte-Hanks, imc², IMS Health, openQ, Sermo, Skila, WebMD, and ZS Associates.

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Technology: Brand Strategy, eBusiness/eCommerce, Interactive Marketing, Marketing & Advertising
Industry: Business-To-Business eCommerce, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Healthcare & Life Sciences Marketing, Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology
Geography: Asia Pacific, Europe, North America

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