Lifecycle Management

How can you realize the true lifecycle value of your assets? To fulfill your asset’s potential you need to navigate key decision points across the entire lifecycle with a robust strategy that creates opportunities for growth and establishes resilience.

Leadership, structure and direction

Our Lifecycle Management Programs

  • Indication Prioritization / Optimization

    Maximize your brand’s chances of success at launch and its commercial potential through the entire product lifecycle. We enable a systematic evaluation of options to ensure you make the right choice of indication/s from launch onwards.

  • Early Lifecycle Strategy

    Build and enhance lifecycle management plans for your pre-launch and early post-launch assets. We’ll help you strategically optimize long-term plans to maximize the value of your product across the whole lifecycle. We give you the capability for cross-functional collaboration and alignment.

  • Late Lifecycle Strategy

    Strategically prepare for and navigate key loss of exclusivity events. We’ll help you identify and plan for a range of LOE scenarios and give you the means to develop a late-lifecycle strategy that optimizes global and local management of your established portfolios.

  • Commercial Strategy Planning For LOE

    Maintain and reinforce the value of your assets through loss of exclusivity. When LOE is looming, we’ll help you develop and implement a globally coordinated, locally executed workstream that will empower your teams.

Programs that are designed to solve
the challenges you are facing

Our programs

Brand/ Portfolio Objectives

Key Business Situations

Brand/ Portfolio Objectives

Identify and understand the full range of asset indications for consideration and evaluation

Understand therapeutic potential based on based on the mechanism of action.

Compare the range of potential indications for an asset

Consider market attractiveness, success probabilities, alignment with franchise and/ or corporate goals.

Identify priority indication(s) for initial launch

Assess opportunity vs. risk trade-off to prioritize launch indications and those to reserve for LCM planning.

Understand future indication expansion pathways

Map indication sequencing strategy options from lead launch indication.

Key Business Situations

Launch indication planning

For pre-clinical assets.

Development of first iteration LCM plan

For early-stage assets.

Revisit and pressure-test existing LCM plan

For early-stage assets.

Due diligence

For business development/ licensing opportunities.

Brand/ Portfolio Objectives

Early lifecycle management plan development

Enable cross-functional alignment on priority LCM tactics for pre-launch assets as part of an overarching LCM strategy.

Beyond-indication early LCM planning for a pre-launch asset

Develop a bespoke where-to-play/ how-to-win strategic framework to guide LCM investment decisions to maximize patient experience.

Early LCM plan post-launch audit and optimization

Optimize LCM strategy given post-launch market dynamics perspectives.

Key Business Situations

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Brand/ Portfolio Objectives

Optimize brand strategy to navigate diversity in late lifecycle dynamics across local markets

Understand how different these might be.

Understand most appropriate business models to guide LLC planning

Consider local differences in patient needs, competitive dynamics and policy/access.

Develop local plans for post-LOE environment

Optimize through LOE events.

Measure success of the brand post-LOE

Based on optimum metrics.

Key Business Situations

Development of global LOE strategic plans

From 2-3 years before first LOE in a major market through to 1-2 years post-LOE.

Health-check on existing late-lifecycle management plans

For late-stage assets.

Development of local LLC plans

By applying global guidance.

Brand/ Portfolio Objectives

Developmental late lifecycle strategy planning/ long-range LoE preparation

Prepare for LoE by developing long-term LLC tactical options for assets 6-7 years prior to LoE.

Scenario planning & risk mitigation

Enable informed decision making and management of uncertainty by developing LLC scenarios that consider direct and indirect LOE events.

Established brand/ portfolio management

Support development/optimization of global operating models for established brand management and pressure test at local level.

Key Business Situations

Speak to our Align's experts

Contact us to develop a robust late lifecycle strategy.

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Maximize Your Asset Value Through Lifecycle Management Excellence

We tailor our approach to shape insight-led LCM strategies that account for external dynamics and internal priorities. With our support you can kick-start your lifecycle planning or stress-test your existing plans to sustain your assets’ lasting success.

Key Expertise & Experience In This Area

Our expert consultants will support your teams through our practical, solutions-focused programs, exploring your unique challenges and bringing lasting value to your business.

James Kettlewell

Principal Consultant

James, with nearly 10 years in healthcare, specializes in shaping strategic direction through product and market assessments.

Qualifications

MSc, Drug Discovery & Translational Biology (University of Edinburgh)

BSc, Cell Biology (University of St Andrews)

Brianna Hewson

Principal Consultant

Brianna, with a decade in healthcare, aids strategic decision-making for leading pharmaceuticals, specializing in launch and lifecycle strategy for early-stage assets.

Qualifications

MSc, Biotechnology and Enterprise (University of Manchester)

BSc, Biology (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

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