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IMS designs services, applications and offerings that help customers manage their risks, enhance their opportunities and maximize their success.

Our client-driven approach reflects the core activities that every pharmaceutical company employs to run its business.  These activities comprise an almost universal language, spoken at all levels of pharma – from sales rep to brand manager, from strategist to CEO:

All of IMS’s offerings become more powerful, valuable solutions when they are enhanced by our Global Consulting and Services capabilities:


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Portfolio Optimization
IMS helps customers identify the optimal mix of products in their portfolios and pipelines to advance healthcare and produce the best returns. For example, we work with customers to help determine which therapy or disease franchises to enter and build out … which products to develop, license and retire … how to achieve the right marketing mix and optimize resources across the product portfolio … and what acquisitions to consider.  In a market driven by innovation, IMS measures the performance of global product portfolios, delivers high-impact solutions and helps answer critical questions. back

Launch Management
The stakes are high in the pharmaceutical industry.  A single point of market share can be the key to profitability, and a new drug usually has just a short time to establish a leadership position.  IMS helps customers decide how, when and where to launch a new product.  We forecast results, evaluate sales strategies, measure the effects of promotional campaigns, and suggest strategic and tactical changes. back

Brand Management
Throughout a drug’s lifecycle, from launch to patent expiration, IMS helps customers manage the brand more effectively.  We apply a variety of qualitative and quantitative disciplines – computer modeling, focus groups, demographics and psychographics, and state-of-the-art performance metrics.  It’s an approach that enables us to better gauge the effectiveness of promotional and advertising campaigns, measure factors that affect prescribing behaviors, and fine-tune our customers’ marketing and sales strategies. back

Sales Force Effectiveness
One of the most critical success factors for any drug company is the productivity of its sales force.  IMS supports sales executives, managers and reps with a range of offerings that empower them to make better, faster, smarter decisions in areas such as: segmentation, targeting and call planning, sales force sizing and deployment, compensation and territory management. back

Consumer Health
Non-prescription, over-the-counter products represent a thriving market, one where the competition is stiff and the stakes are high. IMS offers OTC manufacturers an array of offerings all aimed at better understanding consumer purchasing dynamics and promotional impact. back

All of IMS’s offerings become more powerful, valuable solutions when they are enhanced by our Global Consulting and Services capabilities:

Global Management Consulting
IMS consultants possess exceptional expertise and broad industry experience. They bring to life the complete range of IMS offerings and services by using sophisticated techniques and technologies. Our team helps customers simplify the complexities of the marketplace … identify and clarify trends … develop critical bottom-line decisions … and map strategies and tactics.

No matter where in the world, when customers work with IMS consultants, and the consultants of our Cambridge Pharma Consultancy unit, they can be certain that they are working with the most informed, insightful people in the industry. They are the experts who can help them sharpen strategic focus, drive market-share growth, and maximize financial success. back

Analytics and Interpretation
Highly skilled IMS consultants provide evidence-based, customized analysis and interpretation of business intelligence on a wide spectrum of issues. These include support of traditional areas such as portfolio assessment and launch planning – as well as emerging issues such as risk management, global market strategies, parallel trade and managed care. To clarify alternatives and project outcomes, we use a variety of customized statistical and analytical approaches that include scenario building, forecasting and predictive modeling. back

Information Management
We create and deploy integrated Information Technology applications tailored to fit clients’ systems, processes and specifications. The result: flexible, results-focused solutions aligned with our clients' strategic objectives. So that critical information is delivered where and when it’s needed, we support IT infrastructure, customization, integration and deployment, information architecture, data management and warehousing, along with eBusiness applications. back

Client Support
This includes all of the fundamental services that customers need from Day One – product set-up, installation and implementation, support and maintenance, as well as customer training, service quality assurance and query management.  IMS has a dedicated, worldwide team of client-support people who provide this essential – and very valuable – service. back




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