Product innovation

Supporting a leader in the pharmaceutical industry in the testing of an innovative hypertension management program launched in several countries.

Through an analysis of available scientific publications, international guidelines and congress reports, as well as an assessment of the receptiveness of healthcare professionals, Alcimed enabled its client to determine the likely impact of such a disease management program from a patient perspective and in terms of sales in the target countries.

Our team explored the field of natural alternatives to cow’s milk to help a player in the food industry to innovate on its range of infant milks.

Our client wanted to inspire its R&D teams by analyzing all possible alternatives to cow’s milk in order to create a roadmap of new product innovations together.

Through the identification and characterization of alternatives to cow’s milk, both animal and vegetable, then the selection and prioritization of these solutions, Alcimed enabled its client to identify new avenues for product innovation, enabling it to define a new product development plan adapted to this trend and thus meet consumer expectations.

We supported the R&D team of a leading player in the food industry in optimizing its product innovation process to accelerate the marketing of its products.

Our client had an innovation process very rich in ideas but internally focused and not very open to an external ecosystem. This constraint generated many limitations, including slow idea characterization and feasibility checks.

By conducting a benchmark of existing open innovation practices in the industry and leading a series of workshops with our client’s teams, we identified and implemented actions to use external partners at various stages of the innovation process in order to accelerate the different stages and thus the time-to-market of our client’s product innovations.

We assisted a leading pharmaceutical company that wanted to bring its teams together around innovation to develop new products, new services, new market access models and new ways of working; all in a special and unique place.

We decided to generate this new momentum by imagining the creation of an “innovation laboratory”, a physical place “apart”.

Through an external benchmark and internal workshops with a dedicated project team, we defined its operational functioning and roadmap and then organized the first events taking place in this new laboratory with employees now ready to innovate!

For a leader in the beverage sector, Alcimed carried out an exhaustive mapping of technologies for 4 key processes: pasteurization, deaeration, blending and filling, in order to stimulate upstream innovation and feed the project pipeline for all business units worldwide.

In this context, it wanted to gain an overview of key technologies, and open up to key external players to increase performance levels, be more innovative, and improve product quality and integrity. Through a scouting exercise, we identified 26 technologies, evaluated 8 in depth, and finally selected 6 as priority product innovations.

Our team supported a manufacturing company willing to diversify their revenues and profit sources by the identification of new businesses in industrial robotic applications, compatible with their capabilities.

To do so, we explored two selected potential markets. We prioritized the most attractive segments regarding robotics and identified the main figures, the major players, the existing and emerging solutions, the pain points and needs, and the technical prerequisites for each segment.

Based on the collected insights and our client’s vision, we provided our client with profiles and names of potential partners, areas of application to be favored, and designed two scenarios with medium-term and long-term visions.

Alcimed supported an industrial player in the development and the design of a strategic marketing approach for one of their innovations: a new fuel cell. The aim of our project was to enable our client to address the hydrogen propulsion market.

We investigated the main decarbonization trends and the economic expectations of the general aviation market, identified hydrogen development opportunities in regional aviation and characterized the competitive landscape. Our exploratory work enabled our team to deduce key strategic marketing elements on the general and regional aviation market segments.

On this basis, we provided our client with a list of five priority actions to be conducted as well as key recommendations for their investment in the field.

Alcimed assisted a biotechnology player to prepare the clinical development of their new brain gene therapy to slow or halt Parkinson’s Disease associated with specific mutations, with a focus on the practices for administering gene therapy products into the brain.

Our team conducted extensive research on the current and evolving brain administration practices of neurosurgeons in the US, Europe, and Israel; and explored the potential roles and alternative brain administration possibilities with other specialists.

In the end, we provided our client with a development strategy, the best routes of administration and their perception by neurosurgeons. On this basis, our team made recommendations for the short term and the future while pointing out potential risks at every stage.