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Novartis was created in 1996 through the merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz, two
companies with a rich and diverse corporate history. Throughout the years, Novartis
and its predecessor companies have discovered and developed many innovative
products for patients and consumers worldwide.
Mission
Businesses
We believe this targeted portfolio best meets the challenges and opportunities in a
dynamically changing healthcare environment.
Pharmaceuticals ›
Sandoz ›
Consumer Health ›
Empowering patients with various consumer products that enable healthy lifestyle
choices.
People
Associates
Our performance-oriented culture and responsible approach attract top experts in all
areas – research and development, marketing and sales, finance and
administration. Our talented associates have made us a global leader in healthcare.
Novartis is committed to rewarding the people who invest ideas and work in our
company.
Board of Directors
Executive Committee
Under the leadership of Dr. Daniel Vasella, the Novartis Executive Committee (ECN)
is responsible for overseeing the business operations of Group companies. The ECN,
whose members are chosen by the Board of Directors, consists of these senior
executives:
Locations
Basel headquarters ›
1. Customer Database
An essential element to implementing Integrated Marketing that helps to
segment and analyze customer buying habits.
2. Strategies
Insight from analysis of customer data is used to shape marketing, sales, and
communications strategies.
3. Tactics
Once the basic strategy is determined the appropriate marketing tactics can
be specified which best targets the specific markets.
4. Evaluate Results
Customer responses and new information about buying habits are collected
and analyzed to determine the effectiveness of the strategy and tactics.
5. Complete the loop; start again at #1.
Understand what the consumer wants and needs. Times have changed and you
can no longer sell whatever you can make. The product characteristics must now
match what someone specifically wants to buy. And part of what the consumer is
buying is the personal "buying experience."
Not PRICE, but COST
Understand the consumer's cost to satisfy the want or need. The product price
may be only one part of the consumer's cost structure. Often it's the cost of time
to drive somewhere, the cost of conscience of what you eat, and the cost of guilt
for not treating the kids.
As above, turn the standard logic around. Think convenience of the buying
experience and then relate that to a delivery mechanism. Consider all possible
definitions of "convenience" as it relates to satisfying the consumer's wants and
needs. Convenience may include aspects of the physical or virtual location,
access ease, transaction service time and hours of availability.
1. consist of sensory and life experiences that can easily be identified and
transformed into a unified concept,
2. have mental relationships to other categorized ideas, and
3. fit into the categories and mental linkages that people have already created
for themselves.
Marketing communication messages that are not recognizable, are not related to
each other, conflict with what has already been stored, or are simply unrelated or
unimportant to the person will simply not be processed, but ignored.
Communication only occurs when the consumer accepts, transforms, and
categorizes the message. The storage and retrieval system works on the basis of
matching incoming information with what has already been stored in memory. If the
information matches or enhances what is already there, then the new information
will likely be added to the existing concepts and categories. If it doesn't match, the
consumer has to make a choice, either the new information can replace what is
already there or the new information can be rejected. If rejected, the consumer
would continue to use existing concepts and categories and ignore the new. This is
called a "judgment system" in that consumers match or test new information
against what they already have and then make a judgment to add to, adapt, or
reject the new material. When consumers reject the information or do not add or
attach it to what they already have, there is a failure to communicate. In many
cases, the failure to communicate is the result of the marketer being unable to
match his or her messages or fields of experience with those of the prospect or
customer. Consumers use the same information processing approach whether the
new data comes from advertising, sales promotions, a salesperson, an article in a
newspaper or magazine or from what their neighbor is telling them. The marketer
who presents non-integrated messages risks not having any of his or her messages
processed because of the conflict that occurs in the consumer's information
processing system. If for no other reason that the risk of confusion, marketers must
integrate their messages or consumers will simply ignore them.
Chunking and Networks
Concepts are not isolated units. They are networked together into what we call
categories. These groups of concepts are not only made up of chunks of
information, but then in turn are also networked together in conceptual
relationships. Key to understanding the relationships is understanding the cultural
and life experiences that have created the existing network of information chunks
that exist in the consumer's head.
By building and sharing our knowledge we can ensure our marketing teams are at
the cutting-edge of Advertising Excellence.
This guide provides an overview of how you can work with your agency partner
from the outset to discuss, share and agree your objectives and expectations. These
discussions lay the groundwork for effective partnerships based on clear
communication. This resource provides recommendations to help shape and
maximize working relationships with agencies and provides suggestions on
benchmarking and the importance of doing this early.
Writing an excellent tactic brief involves providing your agency with several pieces
of key information. Welcome to a new world of best-in-class briefs!
This guide shows you how your brief can:
Developing any relationship takes work and building a partnership with your agency
is no exception. To create an effective partnership it takes time, investment and
commitment, and the results are worth it. Read this guide to find out more about
investing in your relationship with your agency partner so you can gain invaluable
insights, enjoy the process of working with an agency and most importantly achieve
AdvertisingExcellence.
Delivering a project on time and on budget may seem like the holy grail of project
management, but rest assured it is possible. By following these key principles you
can achieve winning project management. Issue 5 builds on the previous guides, so
ensure you are up to date with the How-To Guide series for maximum impact.
Evaluate Agencies
• Live feedback - this ongoing process allows for regular feedback which
ensures good agency outputs are regularly praised and potential issues are
identified and addressed early. It is valuable and appropriate to provide your
agency with positive and negative feedback as it happens to create the best
possible working partnership.
• Weekly status calls - this informal process assesses the ongoing progress of
individual projects and provides an opportunity to offer feedback over the
phone. Weekly status calls also provide a great opportunity to enhance and
build your relationship with your agency.
4. Standard tactics and unique tactics. Standard tactics are the key tactics a
brand needs to develop to be commercially viable in the market, e.g. visual
aid, flash card, and Brand Book. Unique tactics address specific, key issues for
the brand not addressed by a standard tactic
1. Working Principles
For Global tactics there are four working principles that apply to the different types
of tactics. Working principles provide a step-by-step workflow for the marketing
teams and agency partners to improve quality, impact and cost efficiencies. The
principles were developed in conjunction with WWRA agency partners on the basis
of industry best practices to ensure improved quality impact and cost efficiencies for
all tactics.
The Creative Context is 1 of the 4 key elements of the new Advertising Excellence
Compensation Model. It defines the tactic and its strategic involvement for agency
partners, so that they can determine the best staffing mix to execute the tactic.
The Creative Context defines whether the tactic is created for the first time, is a
progression, an update/refresh, local adaptation or local creation to allow the
agency to determine the best staffing mix for the individual tactic.
Unique Tactic: tactics which are specifically designed to address specific key issues
for the brand which cannot be met with a classic tactic.
Costs and staffing mix for unique tactics will be developed on as needed based on
issue to be addressed, the agreed functional rates, creative context, working
principles and required staffing level to effectively meet the brands specific need
and to execute the tactic.