Healthcare industry consulting
For more than 25 years, Alcimed has been supporting healthcare leaders in their innovation and new markets development projects.
Who is Alcimed?
Founded in 1993, Alcimed is a consulting firm specialized in innovation and new markets development in life sciences.
Spread over our 8 offices in the world (in France, Europe, Singapore and the USA), our team of 220 high-level explorers supports the decision-makers of the healthcare sector everyday.
Our mission? To explore and develop the uncharted territories of our clients, to help them innovate and conquer new businesses. For more than 25 years, our explorers dedicated to the healthcare sector have been supporting pharmaceutical leaders, biotechs, the medical device players and vaccines players in the exploration and development of their uncharted territories.
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How we support players in the healthcare industry
NEW TECHNOLOGIES
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We worked with the R&D team of a leading medical device manufacturer who wanted to identify and evaluate smart sensors to develop a new connected object.
After having discussed with our client's team to identify the state of internal knowledge and to frame our scope of investigation, we first predefined the evaluation criteria (level of maturity of the technology, technical performance, partners involved, scope of development capacities, etc.) for our investigation. Once this first step was completed, we identified and analyzed potential technologies and associated players on the market in a broad way, and then characterized a final selection of the most relevant players and technologies.
In the end, we were able to recommend 3 possible solutions to our client through this technology scouting, according to the criteria we defined together.
After having discussed with our client's team to identify the state of internal knowledge and to frame our scope of investigation, we first predefined the evaluation criteria (level of maturity of the technology, technical performance, partners involved, scope of development capacities, etc.) for our investigation. Once this first step was completed, we identified and analyzed potential technologies and associated players on the market in a broad way, and then characterized a final selection of the most relevant players and technologies.
In the end, we were able to recommend 3 possible solutions to our client through this technology scouting, according to the criteria we defined together.
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NEW OFFERS
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We assisted a leading player in the field of CAR-T therapies in preparing the launch of its new treatment and in defining its market access strategy in the United States, Canada and Europe. CAR-Ts are highly personalized technologies that require a high level of specialization to be delivered to patients, and therefore not all healthcare centers are ready to administer them. In this context, and in order to define the market access strategy for its new treatment, we helped our client to:
After an investigation conducted in more than 200 healthcare centers in the United States, Canada and Europe, our analysis brought us to recommend to our client the next key steps to be taken in order to develop the skills of each center and to promote rapid access to their new treatment.
- Understand and identify which centers would have the capacity to deliver CAR-Ts.
- Analyze the bottlenecks for approval in the in-scope markets.
- Consequently, define the actions to be implemented to ensure access to its new CAR-T therapy.
After an investigation conducted in more than 200 healthcare centers in the United States, Canada and Europe, our analysis brought us to recommend to our client the next key steps to be taken in order to develop the skills of each center and to promote rapid access to their new treatment.
NEW GEOGRAPHIES
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Alcimed assisted an American biopharmaceutical client in defining the launch strategy of its orphan drug in Europe, and then in structuring a concrete and operational plan, both at the level of the European region and at the level of each targeted country.
The launch plan is a roadmap for each of the company's key functions (medical, marketing, production, regulatory, sales) and covers the period from pre-launch (before obtaining the MA - Marketing Authorization) to the first sales. Today, our team is still involved in regularly updating the first plan defined with our client, according to internal or external developments around this orphan drug in several European countries.
The launch plan is a roadmap for each of the company's key functions (medical, marketing, production, regulatory, sales) and covers the period from pre-launch (before obtaining the MA - Marketing Authorization) to the first sales. Today, our team is still involved in regularly updating the first plan defined with our client, according to internal or external developments around this orphan drug in several European countries.
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POSSIBLE FUTURES
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We supported a leading pharmaceutical company in a prospective analysis of the role of the medical sales representative of the future. Our client, the company's sales director, was faced with a context of changing customer engagement practices and wanted to draw up a vision of what the pharmaceutical sales representative's job of the future might be.
We helped him to define a vision for 2030 and to build a roadmap with the different projects to be implemented to make his teams evolve towards this new role. We first led several working sessions with all the stakeholders involved in the different projects to identify the objectives, key steps, levers, resources, means, timing, indicators, expected deliverables and the functions involved for each project. Then, we formalized this roadmap to facilitate its diffusion internally and to communicate on the next steps.
We helped him to define a vision for 2030 and to build a roadmap with the different projects to be implemented to make his teams evolve towards this new role. We first led several working sessions with all the stakeholders involved in the different projects to identify the objectives, key steps, levers, resources, means, timing, indicators, expected deliverables and the functions involved for each project. Then, we formalized this roadmap to facilitate its diffusion internally and to communicate on the next steps.
NEW WAYS TO INNOVATE
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Our team assisted a pharmaceutical player who found that their innovation process was not enough agile and open towards the external world.
We first exchanged with our client’s teams to get a detailed understanding of what was working well and to identify the malfunctions of the initial process. Then, we identified inspiring cases from industries outside healthcare but facing the same issues and we defined the guiding principles of the new process to be implemented. With this material, we organized a “Sprint” bringing together about twenty representatives from the various departments and functions involved in innovation, in order to co-build the new model following the precepts of Design Thinking.
Ultimately, this work enabled us to co-construct with our client’s teams their new innovation process, more focused, more agile and open to partners, allowing more disruption and empowerment of the teams!
We first exchanged with our client’s teams to get a detailed understanding of what was working well and to identify the malfunctions of the initial process. Then, we identified inspiring cases from industries outside healthcare but facing the same issues and we defined the guiding principles of the new process to be implemented. With this material, we organized a “Sprint” bringing together about twenty representatives from the various departments and functions involved in innovation, in order to co-build the new model following the precepts of Design Thinking.
Ultimately, this work enabled us to co-construct with our client’s teams their new innovation process, more focused, more agile and open to partners, allowing more disruption and empowerment of the teams!
What our clients say about us

« The Alcimed’s team support has enabled Boehringer Ingelheim to move forward efficiently on several projects in a structured way over the past two years. The Alcimed team brought a good level of strategic thinking, an open-mindedness and a willing to entertain new ideas. These assets enabled Alcimed to successfully challenge internal teams and co-build solutions with them. In the same way, the creation of the VPH Hub in Lyon, accompanied by many players in the Lyon Healthcare ecosystem, has progressed in a more organized and efficient way thanks to a team that is both structuring, structured, and … friendly. »
Erick LELOUCHE, President Boehringer Ingelheim France