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Uses and application of IMS databases and information sources for competitor analysis

The paper describes, in general terms, the most recent developments of IMS Database Services and relates these to the analysis of competitors. The need for numeric and text information is discussed in addition to the suggested uses of advertising...

Catalogue: EPHMRA/ESOMAR Seminar 1985: Pharmaceutical Competitor Analysis

Authors: David Brown, Maryanne Roach

February 27, 1985

Competitive analysis and media planning

This paper is a contribution to the ESOMAR Seminar on competitor analysis in the pharmaceutical market. It has the intention to point at practical analysis of competitor promotion. This in itself is not new, of course, but the paper describes another...

Catalogue: EPHMRA/ESOMAR Seminar 1985: Pharmaceutical Competitor Analysis

Author: Jan A. Schipper

February 27, 1985

The use of international online databases in competitive analysis

Online databases extend the researcher's range of sources so greatly that they cannot be ignored both as a tool in competitive analysis and as a means of keeping abreast of the world's literature on technical and business aspects of the...

Catalogue: EPHMRA/ESOMAR Seminar 1985: Pharmaceutical Competitor Analysis

Author: Janet Matthews

February 27, 1985

Business intelligence for top management

The author proposes the creation of a Business Intelligence function for top management - function to provide competitive, environmental, and internal information and analysis needed for decision making. Author states the "prime mission" of such a...

Catalogue: EPHMRA/ESOMAR Seminar 1985: Pharmaceutical Competitor Analysis

Author: Henri Lipmanowicz

February 27, 1985

Macroanalysis of the international pharmaceutical industry

With the increasingly international nature of the pharmaceutical industry, market researchers are faced with the task of analysing companies and product sectors that are exposed to a wide variety of operating conditions. Whether conducting analysis...

Catalogue: EPHMRA/ESOMAR Seminar 1985: Pharmaceutical Competitor Analysis

Author: Steve-Michael Plag

February 27, 1985

Competitor analysis

This paper traces the theoretical development of a company's planning process from basic financial planning to strategic management. It highlights the fact that a competitor intelligence programme is a necessary condition to enable the company to...

Catalogue: EPHMRA/ESOMAR Seminar 1985: Pharmaceutical Competitor Analysis

Author: Stewart Fairbairn

February 27, 1985

Decoding medical advertising

This paper describes the use of semiotics as an aid to monitoring competitive activity. We have taken a collection of typical ads appearing in the British Medical Press, and subjected them to a semiological analysis. On this basis we have drawn...

Catalogue: EPHMRA/ESOMAR Seminar 1985: Pharmaceutical Competitor Analysis

Author: Peter Cooper

Company: QRi Consulting Ltd.

February 27, 1985

Assessing the competition

Companies compete against each other in a complex struggle for customers, capital, and organisational resources. The ultimate objective is to achieve and maintain the coveted status of "industry leader". The basic goal is survival. In this continuous...

Catalogue: EPHMRA/ESOMAR Seminar 1985: Pharmaceutical Competitor Analysis

Author: William L. Sammon

February 27, 1985

Competitor analysis in defence of a brand leader

In the U.K. retail antibacterial market, Amoxil is brand leader. However, share varies considerably in market sub-segments as does the source of competition. The Market Research Department is a prime contributor to competitor analysis, all the more...

Catalogue: EPHMRA/ESOMAR Seminar 1985: Pharmaceutical Competitor Analysis

Author: Roger Western

February 27, 1985