Strategy Consulting Why Your Advisory Board Shouldn’t Be Moderated by the Team Most Invested in the Answer You’ve spent months working on the asset. The clinical strategy has been debated. The data have been reviewed from every angle. The Read More » SiVan March 12, 2026
Project History VI: Asset Landscaping for Pharma BD and why your biotech website might be hindering your chances of being “spotted” When you read the Pharma news sites and analysis on LinkedIn about drug patent cliffs, you might think pharmaceutical companies are sitting Read More » Simon Vanstone June 26, 2025
Project History VII-IX: Why the Best Go/No-Go Research Starts by Trying to Kill the Project Intro Teams often fail not because of a lack of data, but because of research that confirms what they already believe. The Read More » Simon Vanstone October 16, 2025
Strategy Consulting Project History III – How do we get our new med-tech or software offering into a hospital? Two crucial questions I’ve tackled in numerous projects for new life science products designed for hospitals are: who are the decision-makers, and Read More » Simon Vanstone January 2, 2025
Recommendations Simon Says Read This Book: Capitalizing a Cure Has the influence of finance in biopharma helped or hindered addressing unmet needs and getting treatments to patients? Roy Victor’s book is Read More » Simon Vanstone December 19, 2024
Strategy Consulting Why Your Strategy, Competitive Intelligence or Market Research Project Findings Deserve a Podcast (And 4 Other Formats to Make Them Memorable) Intro You, your internal strategy/research/insights team, and one or more vendors have just wrapped up a project to support a drug, medical Read More » Simon Vanstone December 12, 2024
Uncategorized 6 Steps to Understand the Evolution of Treatment for a Disease Using AI Getting up to speed quickly on a new disease area is something myself and many in Business Development, New Product Planning, Competitive Read More » Simon Vanstone December 5, 2024
Strategy Consulting Project History II – Why it is never too early to understand your customers Intro This is part of a series of articles covering past projects to help existing and potential clients understand the journey of Read More » Simon Vanstone November 28, 2024
Recommendations Simon Says Read This Book: A Prescription for Change This week I’m sharing a book recommendation rather than a blog post. I have slowly been working through the books available on Read More » Simon Vanstone November 21, 2024
Strategy Consulting Why a clinical decision support system could be an outside the box option to differentiate your drug Intro For Pharma companies looking to differentiate and strengthen their drugs with a beyond-the-molecule offering, a clinical decision support system (CDSS or Read More » Simon Vanstone November 14, 2024
How expensive is it to develop a drug? A 2024 Update Getting a Nature + subscription was one of the best decisions we made this year. For £15 a month we get access Read More » Simon Vanstone November 7, 2024
Uncategorized Stop copying your competitors after a benchmarking exercise! It is all too easy to copy your competitor(s) after you have conducted a benchmarking project. But take a pause before starting Read More » Simon Vanstone October 31, 2024
Strategy Consulting Benchmarking Part II: How to analyse, report and use your findings Intro This is the second article discussing how to run a benchmarking project. If you haven’t read the first, in which we Read More » Simon Vanstone October 24, 2024
Strategy Consulting Benchmarking Part I: Why you might want to do it and how you can collect the data Intro As I continue the series of articles on the projects we specialize in at SiVan Consulting, I thought I would tackle Read More » Simon Vanstone October 17, 2024
Strategy Consulting Project History I – Early Stage Scientific Landscaping and Partnership Assessment This post is part of a series of articles I plan to write for past projects to help existing and potential clients Read More » Simon Vanstone October 3, 2024