Case study · Medical Devices

    Finding innovation opportunities with needs-based segments

    A medical device leader targeted a complex disease area with only one effective treatment, and needed to know where innovation would matter most.

    The challenge

    What the client faced

    A medical device leader targeted a complex disease area with only one effective treatment and needed needs-based segments to guide innovation.

    Our approach

    What we did

    Physician research and needs-based segmentation identified innovation opportunities and priorities.

    1. 1Interviewed physicians across the care pathway.
    2. 2Built needs-based segments from the research.
    3. 3Prioritized innovation opportunities by segment.
    4. 4Fed the findings into product development.

    Results

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    • [Result 3]

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    Why it matters now

    Deciding which innovation projects to fund

    Strong innovation processes still depend on this kind of upstream insight.

    How we help with this situation

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