Areas of Expertise

Artificial Intelligence

Expertise in the use of AI for healthcare

Competitive Intelligence

Competitive intelligence tools or data relating to products, companies, customers or markets. May include designing and facilitating wargaming/competitive response workshops

Customer Engagement Tools

Production of healthcare data tools for use with customers

Data Storage/Data Transformation/Data Analytics/Database Design

Analytical solutions or software  to assist with storing, manipulating or analysing data

Data Visualisation

Tools or software to visually represent data and allow interrogation of linked datasets. Agencies or individuals who scope and design the visual outputs in line with the relevant tools and software to meet the end user’s needs

Field Force Effectiveness / CRM

Field Force effectiveness solutions including Customer Relationship Management systems, sales target setting, incentive scheme administration, activity monitoring KPI setting etc

Fieldwork – qualitative

Specific expertise in conducting & moderating qualitative fieldwork, such as in-depth interviews (IDIs), telephone interviews (TDIs) and web-assisted interviews.  (Organisations offering the option of a fieldwork-only service, which may include respondent recruitment. Excludes companies that only offer fieldwork as part of a full MR service)

Fieldwork – quantitative

Specific expertise in conducting quantitative fieldwork, such as online surveys and semi-structured telephone interviews.  (Organisations offering the option of a fieldwork-only service, which may include respondent recruitment. Excludes companies that only offer fieldwork as part of a full MR service)

Forecasting

Tools and techniques or software for pharma/healthcare forecasting

In-house Consultancy/Pharma BI/CRM contracting

An individual who provides business intelligence consultancy within pharma companies

Market Access

Expertise specifically in Market Access business intelligence including health economic outcomes and research, HTA, pricing & reimbursement, value proposition & dossier, patient population, and payer understanding

Marketing/Branding/PR

Additional services that may be provided in addition to business intelligence offerings, for example brand consultancy & MARCOMs consultancy

Multichannel Expertise

Expertise in embedding insight generation opportunities and designing data collection points and analytics into the digital content plan to assess multichannel marketing effectiveness

Online Communities

Specific expertise in conducting research with online communities (e.g. bulletin boards) – with any respondent type

Payer Research

Expertise in conducting payer market research

Predictive Analytics

Expertise in the use of PA for healthcare

Primary Market Research - qualitative

Full market research services for qualitative research – using open-ended questions or observational research to provide a richer, deeper understanding, exploring behaviours, opinions and motivations. Services usually cover the whole of the market research process, from research design, recruitment and interviewing to analysis of data

Primary Market Research - quantitative

Full market research services for quantitative research, using structured questionnaires to provide robust numerical outputs. Services usually cover the whole of the market research process, from research design, recruitment and questionnaire design to analysis of data and report / output generation & delivery

Real-World Data / Evidence

Data generation and/or analysis services for production of real-world evidence i.e. real-world trial construction and/or retrospective record-level database analysis

Recruitment (market research respondents)

Recruitment of respondents to take part in market research ( Organisations offering the option of a recruitment-only service. Excludes companies that only offer recruitment as part of a full fieldwork or MR service)

Secondary Data Sources

Provider of one or more databases or data sources that are used in business intelligence

Social Media research/analytics

Services to analyse/mine social media for data/insights

Training - professional training expertise

Provision of training in business intelligence and related areas by professionally qualified trainers

Translation Services

Translation of market research interviews or of field materials / stimulus for use within market research