Digital pharma – responding to challenges and opportunities from outside

Innovation has always been one of the foundations for success in the pharmaceutical industry. While the sector has been very good at developing innovation from scratch or incremental innovation of existing products, it now faces an ultimately differently challenge - dealing with disruptive innovation that is driven by inventions outside the healthcare sector. New players from the digital arena are currently redefining the way the industry works. In this article, Ulrica Sehlstedt, Nils Bohlin, Fredrik de Maré and Richard Beetz of Arthur D. Little discuss how digital is reshaping the pharma arena.

Digital pharma – responding to challenges and opportunities from outside

Innovation has always been one of the foundations for success in the pharmaceutical industry. While the sector has been very good at developing innovation from scratch or incremental innovation of existing products, it now faces an ultimately differently challenge - dealing with disruptive innovation that is driven by inventions outside the healthcare sector. New players from the digital arena are currently redefining the way the industry works. In this article, Ulrica Sehlstedt, Nils Bohlin, Fredrik de Maré and Richard Beetz of Arthur D. Little discuss how digital is reshaping the pharma arena.