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Product Team Cialis Case

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Product Team Cialis

Getting Ready to Market

1.- What trends you think could influence positively and negatively the ED market?
The usual market for medication has only main target audience: doctors. They are the ones that will need to be ‘sold’ on the product while patients will mostly take whatever they are prescribed. This case is slightly different due to the fact that 1) the brand Viagra has an unusual high awareness among patients, and 2) the influencing factor of partners is high. This is why we identify three target audiences: the doctors, the patients and the partners. These may be influenced by current or potential trends:
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Team Cialis’ next task is to decide which audience to choose as lead segment, although they can run some or all parallel to each other. The role of the partner could actually be a good way to differentiate the medication’s commercialization since the key benefit for this segment is very clear and commercial. Additionally, because the name of Viagra is already so known to the male patient audience, avoiding a head-to-head positioning would probably be most effective and more efficient. Prescribing doctors being by definition a key target audience, Team Cialis should also create a large and aggressive sales force to market Cialis to them, more specifically urologists and primary care practitioners.

5.- Did Lilly and ICOS follow all the steps of the product development process as described in the manual?
The manual describes the steps of typical product development process as shown in Appendix 2:
1. Idea generation, 2. Idea screening, 3. Concept a. development and b. testing, 4. Marketing strategy development, 5. Business analysis, 6. Product development, 7. Market testing, 8. Commercialisation.
In the case of Cialis, some of these steps happened at the same time (1 and 6), others (3, 4, 6 and 7) in parallel, because the product itself (3a) was discovered first[2], because the marketing team was much involved in the product development cycle (6) or due to the nature and constraints

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