Launch Readiness

You have an exciting new pharmaceutical product poised to hit an expectant market after years of effort. Your launch readiness strategy is firing on all cylinders – or is it? If that question leaves you in any doubt, we can help put your mind at rest.

At TRiBECA® Knowledge, we deliver pioneering launch readiness software that helps pharmaceutical and biotech companies introduce new products to the global marketplace both faster and more efficiently.

A new product launch in pharmaceuticals is the critical moment when all of your hard work in research and development, regulatory affairs, pricing and reimbursement, health economics, marketing, advertising, promotion and media relations comes to a head. At that point, you want to be delivering the launch plan template at the top of your game.

So optimising launch readiness, and multiplying your chances of turning an also-ran into a new product launch that really justifies the investment, should be a no-brainer. Yet so many new product introductions, for whatever reasons, still fall short of expectations – if they get to launch at all. The rate of attrition in pharmaceutical research and development is notoriously high. Fewer than one in 10 candidate drugs ever gain marketing approval.

When a pharmaceutical product does make it through the long haul of drug discovery, compound selection, preclinical/clinical trials and regulatory sign-offs, it is absolutely imperative that launches across multiple markets are handled as quickly, seamlessly, efficiently and cost-effectively as possible. Launch excellence must be the binding principle in every activity contributing to that goal.

With all the pent-up investment involved in getting a drug onto the launching pad (anything up to $2.6 billion per asset, according to some estimates), coupled with the intensity of competition and cost-containment in many major markets, therapeutic categories and product classes, time really is money when you are implementing a new product launch strategy. You will want to do everything you can to avoid any unnecessary and costly access restrictions that will slow your product launch down or blunt its impact.

One oft-cited estimate is that a delayed launch can cost an average of $15 million per drug per day. More recently, a Deloitte study calculated that one year’s delay in securing approval and launch in the ever-lucrative US market would shave 1.0% off a 14.8% baseline internal rate of return on R&D investment.

With our SmartLaunch™ software, you can transform your new product launch by:

  • Streamlining and automating tasks across launch teams, which saves time and accelerates the launch process.
  • Providing full visibility of launch status and timelines across countries and functional areas, enabling better informed decision-making.
  • Driving productive collaboration and alignment across workstreams.