White Papers & Resources

2011 Dealmakers' Intentions Survey
Ben Bonifant, Jeff Stewart
The 2011 Dealmakers' Intentions Survey is the only forward-looking measure of deal-making activity in the pharma and biotech industries. Download a summary of the results.
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Bracing for Biosimilars
Kuyler Doyle, Tony Lanzone, and Fahti Khosrow-Shahi
This article examines the current movement toward an abbreviated approval pathway for follow-on biologics in the US and assesses the potential impact on current biotechnology products.
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Bracing for Impact: Impact of Industry Trends on Training
This white paper explores how various industry trends are affecting pharma's customers, and what it means for training departments. This paper was written to capture the outputs of a workshop that Campbell Alliance led at the 2010 annual meeting of the SPBT
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Communicating the Value of Medical Affairs
Gary Tyson and Mike Menta
Gary Tyson and Mike Menta show how Medical Affairs leaders can find new and better ways to define, measure, and communicate the value of their organization’s function to the rest of the company.
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CRO Management: Why Sponsors Don’t Do a Better Job and What They Can Do About It
Gary Tyson, Senior Vice President, Clinical Development Practice
Gary Tyson, Senior Vice President and head of our Clinical Development Practice, suggests ways to improve the relationship between CROs and sponsors
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Doing More with Less in Clinical Development: How to Enhance Efficiency Through Better Organizational Planning
Mike Menta
This article addresses how to enhance efficiency in today's challenging, resource-constrained environment.
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Getting the Most from Your MSLs
Gary Tyson, Mike Menta
This white paper offers effective strategies for maximizing the effectiveness of Medical Science Liaisons (MSLs)
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Maximizing Asset Value: The Importance of Commercialization Strategies for Early Stage Assets
Fahti Khosrow-Shahi, Emily Hua, and Jemma Richards
Senior Vice President, Vice President, and Consultant, Brand Management Practice
The glory days of big blockbuster products are waning. Quickly emerging, however, is a market that is characterized by rigorous complexities and relentless competition in which pharmaceutical executives are forced to explore new options for maximizing product potential throughout the life cycle. By focusing on creating strategic commercialization plans earlier in the drug development process, executives are hoping to better prime each product for success.
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MPA Detail Trends Report - January 2012
Campbell Alliance Market Research and Analytics
The MPA™ Detail Trends Report provides a snapshot of the detailing activity of the most heavily promoted pharmaceutical brands. The detail trend data from the November 2011 rolling-quarter was captured by the MPA™ Sales Force Promotion Audit.
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Oncology National Commercial Study: Ten Transformative Trends
Jeff Stewart, Nader Naeymi-Rad
This report summarizes the results of Campbell Alliance's ONC study, detailing 10 trends that will make the oncology market more challenging in the coming years
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Optimizing Clinical Development in a Matrixed Environment
Gary Tyson, Mike Menta
Most clinical development teams must be cross-functional, which means that members can have different goals and matrixed reporting relationships. This white paper helps address the challenges associated with these matrixed teams.
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Optimizing the Impact of the Medical Affairs Function
Gary Tyson and Kuyler Doyle
To assess the evolving role of Medical Affairs and evaluate current organizational structures, responsibilities, and communication with Marketing, Campbell Alliance conducted primary research to learn how organizations have reacted to their changing environments. Our findings and analysis are included in this article.
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Overcoming Challenges to Develop an Effective Marketing Training Program
Debi Limones and Garry O'Grady
Providing effective training that addresses the emerging needs of today’s marketers is more important than ever. This white paper outlines some of the barriers to training that marketing organizations face and shows how companies can remove those barriers and achieve marketing excellence.
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Planning for Change: Adapting to Shifts in the Global Market Access Landscape
Lujing Wang
This white paper outlines the changes taking place in the global reimbursement environment, and their implications for pharma decision makers
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REMS: Where We Are, Where We’re Headed, and What To Do About It
Gary Tyson and Desiree Lau, Medical Affairs practice; Jay Jauregui, Trade & Distribution practice
Executives in our Medical Affairs and Trade practices shed light on the trends and challenges associated with REMS
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Rep Tectonics: How Shifts in the Healthcare Landscape Are Changing the Training Needs of Sales Reps
Garry O’Grady
This article details the environmental shifts underway in the marketplace that are impacting or will impact sales representatives and the competencies that they will need to succeed in a changing landscape.
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Three Ps to Better and Faster Protocol Development
Gary Tyson
This article highlights the “three Ps” that organizations can address to improve the speed and quality of their protocol development process.
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Top-Six Insights from The Medical Affairs Leadership Summit
Gary Tyson and Mike Menta
This paper shares the top six insights to emerge from The Medical Affairs Leadership Summit on topics that include MA leadership in pre-launch products, Medical Science Liaison effectiveness, and MA involvement in product launches.
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