B+ helps leading healthcare companies work on the full spectrum of strategy, operations, organization and mergers and acquisitions. Our cross-sector teams and expertise bring diverse and deep experience and a collaborative spirit to every engagement. We work alongside client teams at all levels of the organization to develop practical solutions that can deliver repeatable and sustainable results. Our global healthcare practice enables us to support our clients in both developed and emerging markets.

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We tailor B+ capability offerings to the needs of each client to help them solve problems or pursue opportunities by business need:

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• Corporate Strategy

• Mergers and Acquisitions

• Commercial effectiveness & customer experience

• Digital Transformation

• Advanced Analytics  

• Performance Improvement

• Full Potential Transformation

• Organizational effectiveness

 

In addition, B+ is also the leading adviser to private equity funds active in the healthcare space, and we have worked on transactions representing more than 75% of healthcare-related deal volume over the past decade. That experience provides us with a deep understanding of trends impacting the industry. It also allows us to bring deep corporate expertise to the investment process to think through Day 1 strategy.

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We help pharmaceutical manufacturers win in a rapidly evolving market characterized by unpredictable product pipelines and uncertain regulatory actions. We bring unmatched expertise in innovation, customer experience, cost management, organizational design, M&A and other disciplines essential to achieving and maintaining industry leadership.

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• Avoid pitfalls that can undercut an acquisition by tailoring the integration thesis to the deal thesis, integrating where it matters, acting quickly to create value for shareholders and setting a high-growth trajectory

• Adopt and change your business models to significantly increase return on sales and deploy zero-based budgeting to ensure that every dollar works toward your strategic priorities

• Use agile ways of working to better meet customer needs and enhance team productivity

• Craft a strategic vision and near-term roadmap to thrive in a digital market

• Develop and successfully launch products that combat rare diseases

• Maximize the benefits of global scale while managing complexity  

• Help realize the full potential of your R&D and innovation capabilities by building portfolios that balance solid investments with riskier product development and leverage innovation from both internal and external sources

• Identify and develop hidden assets in areas where you share customers, share costs or have overlapping capabilities by expanding beyond the core

• Gain a competitive advantage by optimizing your data and analytical assets to make informed decisions

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For medical technology companies, rapidly shifting market dynamics are changing the formula for sustainable, profitable growth. B+ works alongside medical technology clients to develop and implement game-changing innovations, address evolving customer needs and reduce unnecessary costs and complexity. 

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• Significantly improve your odds of successful M&A with an approach that links acquisition strategy, due diligence and merger integration

• Refresh how you segment customers and update the segmentation over time dynamically 

• Develop a strategic vision and near-term roadmap to be best positioned in a digital market

• Maximize efficiency & align G&A costs with your capabilities to support strategy

• Reduce complexity throughout the organization to increase productivity and speed of decision making

• Build flexible commercial models that meet the needs of a diverse and evolving marketplace while simultaneously reducing the cost of sales and strengthening the role of the physician as innovator, advocate and customer

• Focus on internally and externally sourced innovation through a more productive and efficient R&D model

• Invest to win, both therapeutically as well as geographically, in remaining new opportunities

• Use data and analytical assets in new ways to develop proprietary insights and create competitive advantage

• Win in emerging markets by carefully assessing where to play, creating the right product portfolios and distribution models, and, in many cases, finding the right deal partners

• Redesign your supply chain in response to changing market dynamics