by Jason Brandt (@jasondmg3)
Can two of the hottest organizational and operational trends from the last 20 years – Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma – be adapted to pharma? That’s a trick question: They already have been, and quite successfully.
But, how about online pharma marketing? It’s a more interesting proposition.
First, some definitions for the majority of [...]
Tags:analytics·analyze·digital strategy·Education·innovation·Lean Digital Strategy·marketing·Pharmaceutical industry·six sigma·strategy·technology·Trends
This post is part of a series of point/counterpoint arguments proposed by different members of the Pixels & Pills staff. We’re strong believers that healthy arguments can yield the best solutions, and we hope that you enjoy our series. Feel free to add your own arguments in the comments section below!
by Krissy Goelz (@krisgoelz)
In The [...]
Tags:Best Practices·digital strategy·Digital Tools·Education·Opinion·social media·Social network·social networks·strategy·technology·Trends
This post is part of a series of point/counterpoint arguments proposed by different members of the Pixels & Pills staff. We’re strong believers that healthy arguments can yield the best solutions, and we hope that you enjoy our series. Feel free to add your own arguments in the comments section below!
by Jason Brandt (@jasondmg3)
As Egon [...]
Tags:Best Practices·digital strategy·Digital Tools·Education·Opinion·social media·Social network·social networks·strategy·technology·Trends
by DJ Edgerton (@wiltonbound)
The question seems almost nonsensical at first – your Twitter followers may be really outstanding people, but they’re not organic chemists or researchers. And your Facebook fans, while devoted, probably do not, generally speaking, know how to move a new drug through the FDA approval process.
Just the same, it’s a mistake to [...]
Tags:Compliance·data·digital strategy·Digital Tools·Education·engagement·epatient·FDA·information·innovation·Legal Issues·marketing·Pharma·Pharmaceutical industry·R&D·research and development·social media·Social network·strategy·technology·Trends·user needs
by Sven Larsen
We spend quite a bit of time on Pixels & Pills talking about the benefits of technology. And why not? From e-prescribing to the rise of social media as a marketing tool and digital tools for salespeople, technology has driven an unprecedented wave of productivity, economic growth and improvement in our quality of [...]
Tags:communication·digital strategy·Digital Tools·marketing·mhealth·strategy·technology
As we come to the end of 2011, we also come to the end of our year-long Defining Moments series. Once a month, all this year, we’ve looked back at the biggest events from exactly 12 months prior, and noticed how we can relate what’s been changing our world to what we can do in [...]
Tags:arsenic based life·communication·defining moments·digital strategy·Education·innovation·media·process·research·science·science and medicine·scientific journals·scientific research·technology·year in review
by Russ Ward (@russcward)
What does it feel like to have a heart attack? What’s the cure for muscle soreness post-workout? What one daily habit has the most positive effect on your health?
These are real questions asked on the popular question and answer site Quora. Question sites such as Quora, Yahoo! Answers, and Fluther are proliferating [...]
Tags:Compliance·crowdsource·digital strategy·Digital Tools·Education·healthcare·metrics·Patients·Pharma·Pharmaceutical industry·regulations·social media metrics
by Sven Larsen
#Adaptordie is an apt hashtag to sum up the teachings of digital-media pundit Brian Solis. It’s also an apt hashtag to describe the current state of affairs in the pharmaceutical industry.
Solis’s new book, The End of Business as Usual, a follow-up to the popular Engage, focuses on this need of business to change the old ways and [...]
Tags:digital strategy·Digital Tools·Facebook·FDA·healthcare·innovation·marketing·Pharma·Pharmaceutical industry·social media·social networks·Trends
The Defining Moments series looks back at the biggest events of 2010 to see what we can learn from them here at P&P, to work better in our calling, in 2011 and beyond.
Antimatter has been a long-running plot device, used in TV shows and movies for about fifty years. But a year ago, [...]
Tags:antimatter·digital strategy·engagement·innovation·marketing·Trends
by Briana Campbell (@MsMatchGirl)
Ever since social networking became a popular way to communicate, people have been sharing with gusto, whether that’s the minutia of their daily lives (I had the best corned beef sandwich!) or crowing about significant milestones (I completed my first marathon!). Not only has social media provided an outlet for expression, it’s [...]
Tags:communication·digital strategy·Digital Tools·Education·innovation·marketing·social media·social media strategies·social networks·strategy·Trends·user needs
