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Segmentation for Tactical Planning
For companies its very important to have a clear understanding of customer needs, buying processes and preferences, value perceptions, and potential is paramount to ensure sales and marketing success. They need to understand the attitudes and perceptions of various groups as well as the economic benefit of targeting them. Translating these insights in an actionable segmentation and targeting strategy is a precursor to developing effective value propositions, organizational sales processes, and sales force structuring.

marketRx® provides a complete suite of Sales Force Effectiveness suite of products and services to address all key Strategic & Tactical business needs. Our unique integrated segmentation solution provides meaningful target segments utilizing all data sources to derive optimum call plans, thereby helping you to make more informed tactical decisions.

Impactful segmentation and targeting decisions are built on sound customer intelligence and on processes that harness that intelligence. marketRx combines expertise in advanced marketing analytics methodologies with extensive experience in strategy and execution to develop action-oriented segmentation and targeting strategies. Further, we bring the capability to translate segmentation insights into effective value propositions, organizational sales processes, go-to-market channels, and sales organization designs.

marketRx offerings

Using advanced analytics and a structured approach, our robust integrated solution helps you in characterizing physician segments in terms of attitudes, behavior and demographics. Our integrated segmentation solution can help you gather and reconciles data from sales reps, primary research for customer data management, customer valuation & develop Segmentation and Targeting even in low data markets.

marketRx approach

Our segmentation solution follows an integrated approach to not only gather data and identify strategic & tactical issues but also uncovers latent variables to make key pillars of tactical planning-Targeting, Territory Alignment and Call Planning, more focused and efficient.

Segmentation for Tactical Planning

We use a predictive behavioral model that classifies the universe of physicians into one of the Latent Class Analysis segments. Additionally, we also incorporate attitudinal data through sales representatives and subsequent survey work to augment predictive accuracy of the algorithm.

Case Study: Targeting and call planning
Objectives The client with four Oncology brands and multiple hospital teams wanted to segment active prescribers and key treatment influencers as well as asses the optimum calls required to derive optimum returns. The key challenge for them was lack of consistent & systematic valuation approach and data on key targets resulting in difficulties in action planning for key accounts/customers.
Our approach
  • marketRx’s qualified team conducted a “Sales Excellence Workshop” in order to assess current practices and make recommendations to significantly improve:
    • Physician Valuation / Ranking
    • Segmentation / Targeting
    • Call Planning / Reach & Frequency
    • Alignments
  • Developed a new customized targeting system to support the account based selling approach
  • Collected product specific data linked to brand strategy and developed targeting business rules that leverages internal & secondary data with rep-provided input
  • Created customized filtering, sorting and creation of user-defined target lists
Key Outcomes Client was able to derive the following benefits:
  • Comprehensive profiling of all physicians in the target universe enabled the country teams to redefine significant numbers of new and reclassified target physicians for critical products
  • Systematic assessment of each physician on a broader set of characteristics (usage, potential, influence, etc.) enabled re-shuffling of priorities, creating greater focus on higher opportunity physicians
  • Structured call activity targets identified territories where reach, frequency and rep activity can be examined more deeply to maximize resource allocation
  • Intangible benefit of multifunctional teams coming together and thinking through the business process


Key benefits of our services:
  • Strong foundation in analytics and technology enables us to deliver actionable solutions
  • Expertise in providing a host of robust sales force effectiveness, brand management and market research solutions to global clientele using various data sources
  • Experience with a large number of therapeutic classes enables us to understand the key marketing initiatives for a variety of brand types and life-stages, providing key insights

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