How digital could transform stakeholder engagement
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Digital may be upending every aspect of the pharma industry, but many would assume that engagement activities like advisory boards, working groups and medical education will remain a bastion of face-to-face communication.
That’s not so, says Natalie Yeadon, co-owner and managing director of Impetus Digital. She believes that asynchronous stakeholder engagement platforms like her company’s are able to augment and, in many cases, supersede face-to-face meetings to bring real transformation to the industry.
“They can fill in what I call the ‘white space’ between face-to-face meetings,” she says.
She believes there are several clear drivers behind digital transformation in key opinion leader (KOL) engagement at the moment: “The competitive marketplace that we’re finding all of our brands in means it’s really pertinent that companies maintain or increase their mindshare with the people they’re working with.
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