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
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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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1. The hospital urology department wants to establish a sexual dysfunction clinic. The department head wants to get an estimate of the number of males, ages 36 to 60, in the community suffering some form of sexual dysfunction.
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1. What are the most relevant dimensions along which to segment the patient market for ED treatment (i.e., what are the different ways you could divide it up)? Of the segments identified, which would you target initially with Cialis?
Firstly, age is a valuable dimension due to the strong positive correlation to erectile dysfunction (ED) incidence. Secondly, as shown in the demographic data presented by Lilly ICOS, most men who suffer from ED are either married or living together with their partner. Being the influence of the spouse one of the
They could have chosen a compete strategy which would have the pharmaceutical product go head to head up against their main competitor Pfizer’s Viagra. Finally, they could have chosen a beat strategy, where the option is to come up with a different positioning in order to reach a broader market.
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