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This is a comprehensive implementation case focused on digital transformation in pharmaceutical sales. The candidate must develop a structured framework covering salesforce considerations, healthcare provider needs, management feasibility, and implementation challenges. The case tests ability to identify digitalization opportunities across multiple business processes (admin, sales, customer journey) while addressing organizational resistance and change management.

Estimated Time 36 minutes
Difficulty Hard
Source PeterK
40 / 100
A global biopharmaceutical company Bio Co focuses on R&D for medications on severe central nervous system disorders, inflammatory disorders, and oncology. A quarter of its 10k employees are salespeople who follow traditional sales practices. For example, they share information about prescription drugs with doctors and other medical practitioners typically during face-to-face visits. The Bio Co’s CEO believes that sales digitalization might unlock a lot of value for the company. They have hired your team to conduct a digital transformation for their sales function. How would you help the client?

Clarifying Information

  1. Digitalization is the use of tech, data, and analytics to design business processes. Digitization is the conversion of analog information to digital formats. Digital Transformation is business transformation enabled by digitalization
  2. Bio Co enjoys $6B in revenue and 15% net profit margin (2022)
  3. Bio Co has successfully digitalized R&D - built digital capabilities shortened study timelines and improved access for a more diverse range of participants
  4. The current level of sales process digitalization at Bio Co is minimal
  5. Bio Co doesn’t have any goals but realizes that this project will be capex heavy
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A global biopharmaceutical company Bio Co focuses on R&D for medications on severe central nervous system disorders, inflammatory disorders, and oncology. A quarter of its 10k employees are salespeople who follow traditional sales practices. For example, they share information about prescription drugs with doctors and other medical practitioners typically during face-to-face visits. The Bio Co's CEO believes that sales digitalization might unlock a lot of value for the company. They have hired your team to conduct a digital transformation for their sales function. How would you help the client?

You

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Interviewer

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You

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Bio Co, a biopharmaceutical company with 2,500 salespeople, seeks to digitalize its sales function. The candidate must create a digital transformation strategy addressing sales processes, customer touchpoints, implementation obstacles (particularly salesforce resistance), and training requirements for 2,500 sales representatives.

Key Insights:

  1. Implementation cases require both opportunity identification and feasibility assessment (people, processes, systems)
  2. Change management is critical—understanding stakeholder resistance (salesforce concerns about autonomy, job security, commission changes) is as important as identifying digitalization opportunities
  3. Sales process digitalization spans three areas: admin (lead management, contract prep), sales enablement (data analytics, customer insights), and customer journey (self-service digital tools)
  4. Training and adoption timelines can be substantial—the case demonstrates that training 2,500 salespeople over 12 months requires planning for phased rollout and high churn rates