Case Study: The Global Pharmaceutical Industry
Case Study: The Global Pharmaceutical Industry
Case Study: The Global Pharmaceutical Industry
Presented by: Naseem uz Zaman Asif Rasool Nafizul Azim Group # 03 MBA 45D, Sec: A Roll Roll Roll 12 19 28
Background
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Supporting Player Worldwide Health Insurance Companies Health Development organizations e.g. WHO, Unicef and so on Individual buyers
Weaknesses
Most growth over the past decade has been in volume rather than new drugs
Opportunities
Threats T 1. Public opinion regarding profiteering in life saving drugs 2. Expiry of patents allowing generic drugs to enter the market
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Merck Johnson & Johnson AstraZeneca Novartis Aventis Bristol-Myers Squibb Roche All Others*
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Novartis Merck & Co Sanofi Astrazeneca Roche G laxoSmithKline Johnson & Johnson Abbott Teva Lilly Takeda Bristol-Myers Squibb Bayer Schering Pharma A mgen All Others*
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Analyze Decision Context (Cont.) Porters Five Forces Model and Global Pharmaceutical Industry
Large and Lead times for new drugs expensive sales to force required be marketed increasing from 35 years in the 1960s to 12 years in the mid-1990s
Long lead times Already high costs of R&D for new drugs, and clinical testing increasing Low Low
Emphases on disease prevention and early detection begin to shift R&D priorities; and could favor pharmacogenomics providers.
Moderate
The decision to buy was imposed by doctors on patients (final consumers). Doctors had no responsibility to contain costs. Bargaining In the US, a mail-order Power of Buyers channel starts to develop to help highly price sensitive patients.
Loss of brand loyalty as medical practitioners are forced to become cost conscious and consider prescribing generic rather than brand drugs.
Patients expectations are rising Government policy to increase competition. Governments (EU) and managed health organizations (US) imposing systems to control prices.
Growth of managed care is expected to continue deteriorating the profitability of big pharmaceuticals regardless of the outcome of regulation.
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High
Cost of drug ingredients Global sourcing by drug companies Lack of profitability of outsourcing are very low percentage hassled to further reductions in markets for R&D, clinical trials and of total costs. the costs of raw materials managing the approval processes may result in a shakeout with fewer suppliers able to put upward pressure on out-sourcing costs
Pharmaceuticals tend to be fully vertically integrated (from molecule search to mass marketing) Major pharmaceutical companies come increasingly to rely on outsourcing and in-licensing for new products, enabling supplying companies to place a high price on such deals. However, counteracted by global over-capacity in outsourcing and R&D Low Low
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Lead times of 67 years over competitors (time for rivals to produce me-too drugs)
Low
Biotechs may become more successful at bringing successful products to market as genomics allows targeted application so that clinical trial size and length can be shortened
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Moderate
Large and expensive sales forces were developed on the back of brand recognition to target doctors
Moderate
Mergers and acquisitions are expected to continue as they could lead to economies of scale, better sales and marketing and more efficient R&D efforts High
High
Political Factors
Governments are the biggest buyer of the industry In 1980s and 90s governments used Pharmaceutical Industry to control healthcare budget. As the industry globalizes and ownership and employment become concentrated in fewer countries
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Economic Factors
Patients (the ultimate) users have very little influence over price due two reasons:
Doctors is the person who decides the drugs Consumption and price have been controlled by institutions like health insurance company and governments.
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Sociocultural Factors
As the baby boom generation approaches retirement, there have been new efforts to develop drugs for the treatment of the elderly (such as solutions for Alzheimers disease).
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There has been growing investor activism in both Europe and the US, suggesting shareholders could be increasingly susceptible to ethical, social and corporate governance issues.
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Technological Factors
The advent of genomics, potential new ways to discover drugs, to better target their use and to conduct medical trials suggest there could be a major reorganization of the industry.
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The impact of the Internet on traditional business models is as yet uncertain. The internet could reinforce a trend to switch from prescription to OTC drugs and in the process dis-intermediate retail chemists.
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Environmental Factors
The introduction of cradle to grave policies in the EU should result in greater need for green (i.e. environmentally-friendly) management.
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Legal Factors
Pharmaceutical companies often find problems in enforcing patent protection in developing countries (particularly in Asia). Clinical trials still remain as the stage that demands the greatest share of resources to develop a drug.
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Recommendations
1. The big pharmaceutical companies need create more and more drugs through their R&D. Because the lifecycle of drugs are shortened significantly. Newer products will give the respective company competitive advantages. 2. Time to market is critical. R&D and the trials had to more quicker and well-targeted. 3. Finding out the large buyers and maintaining good relationship with them is the key hold a sustainable cash flow. 4. Bringing more diseases in the treatable category by development newer medicines. 5. Maintaining a larger sales force is important but cost considerations may force some companies to look for alternatives. 6. There should be more franchises to capture the market share in the emerging economies.