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Tracking doctor attitudes in an attempt to help forecast new product performance

This paper describes the development of using Medilink's General Practitioner panel to track attitudes and prescribing intentions over time and using the data derived as a basis for forecasting new product performance. Medilink's 'on-line',...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Pricing And Forecasting In Pharmaceutical Industry

Authors: Peter Barton, Terry Hardy

Company: GSK

June 15, 1987

The measurement of sales of animal health and veterinary products in Europe

My paper starts with a brief description of EFPIA, which was established in 1977 to represent the pharmaceutical industry in W. Europe and refers to its changing role in the animal health field within the past year. It consists of sixteen...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Identifying Change in European Agriculture

Author: John W. Prior

June 15, 1987

Do what your doctor tells you!

The paper will examine, with the help of specially prepared data, some of the potential advantages of integrating research amongst healthcare professionals (predominantly doctors and pharmacists) with more conventional consumer data. This paper...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Research In Arab Countries

Authors: Robert C. Blake, James J. Ryan

June 15, 1987

Interactive measurement of sales response

This paper reviews the effect of enhancing the value of a pharmaceutical panel by offering the monthly data as both printed reports and through an on-line database service. The panel, JIGSAW, has been running for some 24 months in the UK, based upon...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Improving The Use Of Consumer Panels For Marketing Decisions

Authors: Roger Western, Mark Katz

June 15, 1987

Doctors and prescribing

This paper suggests that pricing decision-making should encompass the attitudes and prescribing motivations of doctors - not merely towards our projected marketing platform in the context of directly competitive pricing but also in the macro sense...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Pricing And Forecasting In Pharmaceutical Industry

Author: Roger Western

June 15, 1987

Demand protection for bulk drugs

This paper is based on a study sponsored in 1984 by one of the clients of Operations Research Group. The broad objective of the study was to identify viable bulk drugs for manufacture and to estimate the gap between future requirement and indigenous...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Pricing And Forecasting In Pharmaceutical Industry

Author: S. Rajagopal

Company: Operations Research

June 15, 1987

European pricing development's to 1990

This paper will cover only the five largest retail pharmacy markets: France, West Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK. Furthermore, a major part of the paper will be devoted to an analysis of the past - 1980 onwards - for it is from an analysis of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Pricing And Forecasting In Pharmaceutical Industry

Author: Ian Robert John

June 15, 1987

The use of micro-simulation models in the development and positioning of new and existing pharmaceutical and O.T.C. products

The objective of this paper is to explain the use of micro- simulation models in different types of marketing problems. When and how should they be used, what are the practical requirements of such surveys and what sort of solutions to marketing...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Pricing And Forecasting In Pharmaceutical Industry

Author: Ingrid Leyssens

Company: Marplan Forschungsgesellschaft mbH

June 15, 1987

Expert systems in strategic marketing planning

In this paper we will explore the use of decision support and expert systems in strategic marketing planning, give a short outline of an expert system for a pharmaceutical company and show the implementation of that system in a PC/AT environment.

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: M.M.I.S- Useful For The User

Authors: Christer Carlsson, Pirkko Walden, Sten-Olof Hansen

June 15, 1987