“We have worked with healthcare clients all over the world to develop solutions that deliver value – from boardroom to bedside.”
At Arthur D. Little, we help medical technology, biopharmaceutical, and associate businesses master complex challenges in rapidly changing situations, often under very demanding market, economic, competitive, and technology conditions. Our deep industry knowledge combined with creative thinking enables us to work with our clients in harnessing innovation to overcome their most difficult strategic challenges.
Corporate Strategy
A company’s vision provides employees with a common goal. It points everyone in the right direction and determines a clear strategy, which is fundamental to business success. At Arthur D. Little, we work with our clients to define their ambitions in concrete terms and to develop strategic plans for achieving these goals.We work with our clients in developing strategies that enhance the value of their products and franchises, whether in infancy, growth phase, or maturity. Our services include:
- Corporate and business unit strategy
- R&D strategy development
- Market entry strategy
- Franchise strategy development
- New business development
- Product launch and marketing strategy
- Strategic alliances and partnering
Performance Improvement
To realize its potential and improve performance, a business must identify and diagnose the source of weakness. Once the weakness has been mitigated, the company must align its operations with its strategies, optimize its processes, and manage required changes. Improving performance and realizing potential requires corporate commitment as well as an innovative approach to the process.
Arthur D. Little helps clients to do just that, by combining its in-depth industry expertise and world-class thought leadership to support the transformation of organizations from within. Our experienced teams offer expertise in the following areas:
- Business process optimization
- Organizational and resource planning and design
- Post-merger integration
- Supply chain optimization
- Complexity and change management
- Knowledge management
- Benchmarking
- Pilot and full implementation
Technology and Innovation Management
When assessing and setting R&D priorities, companies must build the necessary organizational structure and processes and launch appropriate cultural change in order to grow and profit from their technology investments. To enable our clients’ success, we apply our industry expertise in medical and pharmaceutical technologies and markets with unique innovation management tools and models.
We help our clients understand the true value of their technology portfolios. We advise them on what to acquire, accelerate, maintain or divest. We partner with them in the creation of innovative products and services helping them move new ideas into the pipeline within budget and set timescales, by offering:
- Technology and innovation strategy and planning
- R&D process optimization and commercialization
- Product and technology portfolio management
- Technology forecasting and valuation
- Innovation process excellence
Opportunity Assessment
To compete successfully in the healthcare market, companies must be prepared to fill their development pipeline with innovative technologies while maintaining strict market focus. Arthur D. Little has extensive experience in working with clients to identify, characterize, and evaluate opportunities. Whether these opportunities are new markets, technologies, partnerships, or acquisitions, we provide holistic, fact-based, objective assessments. We perform work in the areas of:
- Market analysis and evaluation
- Technology assessment, characterization, and evaluation
- Scenario forecasting
- Mergers and acquisitions analysis and support
- Joint venture structuring
- Investment analysis
- Enterprise and intellectual property valuation and services