Case Study

See how we helped a global pharmaceutical company with a review of the entire clinical development portfolio.
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Catenion's R&D Suite of Tools, Processes and Methods for Portfolio Management

R&D Risk Assessment: An expert system with more than 600 criteria measuring a project's risk level against industry average, differentiated by drug format (small molecules, monoclonal antibodies, recombinant proteins, etc) and stage of the R&D process. Based on the input of hundreds of industry experts and used to evaluate more than 600 projects to date.

Option Space Mapping: A systematic approach to map out the development options of a project based on hard biological, chemical, and pre–clinical data regarding target and own compound, competitor compounds, market situation and the project´s position in pipeline.

Innovativeness Screening: A method developed to assess market attractiveness for early compounds before proof of concept and used instead of more elaborate forecasting methods. Key dimensions are novelty, usefulness, theoretical market potential and exploitability by company.

Competitiveness Modelling: An elaborate forecasting tool developed by Catenion for post–proof–of–concept compounds. The tool permits rating of product features against those of current and expected competitors, and forecasts the whole market, rather than just one company’s compound.

Value–at–Risk Monte Carlo Simulation: Portfolio values based on risk–adjusted expected values are not risk–free, as every practitioner knows. Our approach shows the level of unacceptable risk (i.e. the likelihood of not reaching a minimum level of return) a company incurs with its portfolio and how to reduce this risk by adjusting the portfolio.