Business challenge
Our client, who operates in a mature, highly competitive therapy area, wanted to explore the pathway along which the ‘patient’ travels from consideration of undertaking elective treatment through to action, so that they could develop an effective and targeted marketing strategy for emerging markets.
What we did
We designed a three-stage approach that would fully explore the patient journey, size the potential market, and quantify touchpoints and influences to optimise strategy.
- Desk research
- In-home interviews with naive patients
- In-home interviews with experienced patients
- Duo interviews with HCPs
considerations
groups
After each stage, we facilitated strategy days and workshops with the client were to review insights, develop outputs and strategic implications/direction.
Countries/markets: USA, Brazil, Mexico, UK, Germany, France, South Korea and Russia.
Outcome
Our findings helped the client to identify opportunities to leverage/influence patients’ and HCPs’ decision making at each stage of the journey towards treatment.
By working closely with our client, interested stakeholders and affiliates, we provided a winning strategy to build and develop a foothold in a competitive market environment.
The keys to success for this project lay in having confidence in engaging hard-to-reach patients and eliciting their true behaviours and attitudes whilst establishig open communication with our client throughout the project and beyond.