SEIZING OPPORTUNITY IN AN EXCEEDINGLY
COMPLEX MARKET

The Archstone Consulting Life Sciences team is an experienced group of consulting professionals who have focused their consulting careers in the Life Sciences sector including experience with Big Pharma, Biotech, Medical Device and Wholesaler/Distributors. 

This breadth of experience across Life Sciences provides our clients with the perspective necessary to address their business challenges as the industry and its products and services become increasingly integrated.

Archstone Consulting has built this specialized team to focus on the Life Sciences space because we believe:

• This is an exciting and important industry whose success has direct impact on the world and the health of our friends and families.
• The industry is facing significant challenges from competing interests and pressure to change.
• Our dedicated team of consulting professionals understands the sector and how to implement change in life sciences companies so that we can successfully partner with our clients to deliver new capabilities and results.

Areas of Focus
We focus our offerings, team and methodology development on areas where we believe we can best support the challenges facing the industry.

Changing Marketplace
The changing healthcare environment, increasing price pressure and the growing influence of consumers are just a few of the challenges that are increasing the pressure on Life Sciences organizations to deliver optimum product performance throughout their product’s lifecycle.  We have experience in supporting our clients with:

• Launch Strategy and Execution
• Therapy Area and Brand Strategy
• Brand Planning and Innovation
• Lifecycle Management
• Scenario Planning and Wargaming

Our work is increasingly focused on building new strategies and commercial models to address issues such as:

• Countries or regions where detailing is not viewed as a good investment;
• The growing importance of strategically managing key opinion leaders;
• Increasing challenges with access.

Financial Pressure

Creating more nimble and cost efficient organizations is becoming more important to the Life Sciences sector. We work with our clients to take cost out of their organizations in these areas

• Sourcing and Supplier Management
• Post-merger Integration
• Operational Efficiency

In this area, we also leverage the experience of our colleagues who have deep functional skills in areas such as Finance, Human Resources, and Outsourcing.

Organizational Complexity

Many of our Life Sciences clients are large, global, complex and increasingly virtual organizations.  The capability to work successfully across boundaries both within and outside of their organization is becoming a more important factor to achieve their objectives. We have developed methodologies and tools to help our clients address issues in the following areas:

• Organizational Design
• Change Management
• Leadership Development
• Alliance Management

How We Work 
Archstone Consulting likes implementing change and delivering results.  We also like to solve strategic and operational business issues with a focus on requirements for successful implementation.

We have invested significantly in the development of methodologies and consulting tools which help us to focus our work on client-specific issues and accelerate the results of our projects. We pride ourselves on our pragmatic approach and the way we partner with our clients.

For more information, please contact us at LifeSci@archstoneconsulting.com.