Pharmaceutical Product Commercialization: Enabling Team...( CHAPEL HILL N.C. Nov. 9 /- Pharma...),Health

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Pharmaceutical product teams have the power to make or break the launch of a new product. The problem is launch teams often lack the right structure, tools and processes to run effectively and therefore only produce a sub-optimal launch.

In fact, pharmaceutical marketing and HR executives agree that collaborative behavior and cross-functional team work are key ingredients during product commercialization. According to a study by pharmaceutical benchmarking firm Best Practices, LLC, many organizations still use fully operational cross-functional teams too infrequently.

Cross-function collaboration is greatly improved through many methods -- structuring jobs with overlapping responsibilities, basing rewards on group performance, designing procedures so that employees with different jobs are better able to collaborate, and laying out work areas so that people can see one another's work and share lessons learned.

"Managing Cross-Functional Teams for Pharmaceutical Product Commercialization Excellence," available with a complimentary study summary online at http://www3.best-in-class.com/rr878.htm, provides extensive insight into how pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies are building team communication and leadership structures that prepare employees to excel in a competitive marketplace.

Valuable best practices and operating tactics were gathered from leading pharmaceutical companies, including Amgen, Abbott, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Genentech, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Novartis, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Roche, Sanofi-Aventis and Wyeth. They will help executives build and manage strong teams that can excel across functions, units and regions.

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