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Product Team Cialis Getting Ready to Market

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Differentiation & Positioning
Case: Product Team Cialis_Getting Ready to Market (HBS 9-505-038)

The Actors: - Mark Babato, the executive director and global product team leader for Cialis - Rob Brown, the global marketing director from Lilly - Leonard Blum, vice president of sales and marketing from ICOS - Sidney Taurel, Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of Lilly

Problem Analysis:

| |VIAGRA |CIALIS |
|The effect |approx. 4 hours after dosing |36 hours after taking the drugs |
|The absorption |Diminished when …show more content…

Global Marketing Research (GMR) 2. Global Marketing Planning (GMP) 3. Global Marketing Sales Training (GMST)
In the initial stage of new product planning, GMSO had two roles: 1. For research projects based on the ongoing input from the sales-reps visiting physicians and market needs identified by GMR 2. For projects that seemed to have medical effectiveness in Phase I and II clinical trails, GMP would forecast market potential to see whether these products should be terminated or moved forward.

Competitors:

Pfizer: - Expanding more R&D resources - Known as marketing prowess - DTC advertising was an important part of communication mix

Bayer with Levitra: - Very effective at lower dosage than Viagra (as low 5 and 10mg) - Designed trials to focus on showing good results in diabetic men - The duration was roughly the same as Viagra - Bayer has conjunction with GlaxoSmithKline to expand its sales force in US market

QUESTIONS: 1. Who should be the target market for Cialis? - Someone who has been used Viagra but discontinued the usage, or in other words can be called as a “dropouts”, for some reasons which probably dissatisfied with it. - Based on exhibit 6, the average of ED patient are men starting from 50 years old which employed full time and married or have sexual partner. - Based on exhibit 7a,

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