Our Communities of Practice
Our Life Sciences Consulting team delivers tailored solutions for our clients’ most pressing business needs, leveraging best practices across the life sciences industry and beyond
Selected Practices:
Life Sciences Advisory
Acquis helps biopharmaceutical, medical device, and digital health companies stand up, build, and operationalize their functions from early development throughout the product lifecycle
Medical & Clinical
We work across the product development lifecycle to develop and implement medical and clinical operations strategy to help pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical technology companies to improve clinical outcomes and tackle unmet medical needs
Commercial
We empower you to achieve results by delivering commercial strategy across the full product lifecycle, ensuring launch readiness for your assets, and driving impactful initiatives to improve business and patient outcomes
Compliance
We help you achieve inspection readiness and navigate the complex regulatory environment post-FDA approval, including Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General requirements and industry best practices
WHY
PARTNER
WITH ACQUIS
Strategic Thought Leadership
- We pair you with experienced business and life sciences strategy leaders who help guide your decisions, develop robust plans, and prioritize strategic initiatives
Comfortably scale by integrating medical, commercial, and compliance experts
Think + Do
- We design tailored life sciences strategies for your business and then supports you through implementation
Define your overall medical operations and commercial strategy, capability requirements, timelines, and investment
Comprehensive Service Offerings
- We partner with you at every and any stage of the life science product lifecycle
Understand your challenges and help to optimize opportunities in your early, late-stage, and commercialized products
CAPABILITIES
Acquis understands the complexities of the development lifecycle. Thoughtful planning in the early stages of the product lifecycle is critical to reaching the right patient at the right time with the right drug, optimizing downstream peak revenue post-launch.
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
5+ YEARS
PRE-LAUNCH
Investor Advisory and Assets to Clinical Operating Model
- Clinical Operations Strategy, Study, and Site Setup
- Investor Advisory and Assets
- PMO Setup and Scale
- Portfolio Prioritization and Planning
PRE-LAUNCH ACTIVITIES
1- 3 YEARS
PRE-LAUNCH
Maximize Clinical
Portfolio Potential
- Inspection and Launch Readiness
- Medical Operations
- Partnership/Alliance Management
- Organizational Design, and Capability Building
- Technology Assessment and Implementation
PRODUCT LAUNCH
0- 2 YEARS
POST-LAUNCH
Strengthen Voice &
Accelerate Uptake
- Decision-Support Modeling and Forecasting
- End-to-end Stakeholder Journey Mapping
- Field Team Strategies
- HCP/Patient Engagement Strategy Data Analytics, Monitoring, and KPI Systems
MARKET GROWTH
2- 5 YEARS
POST-LAUNCH
Maximize
Peak Sales
- Indication Extension Planning
- Salesforce Deployment
- Operations Optimization
- Stakeholder Experience
- Payer Contracting and Market Access
MARKET MATURITY
5- 10 YEARS
POST-LAUNCH
Optimize Profitability & Extend Brand Life
- Alliance & Vendor Management
- Clinical Guidelines Updates
- Expand Patient Support Programs
- Combination Partnership Opportunities
- Supply Chain / Strategic Sourcing Optimization
Insights
Kerby Houff
Partner
Kerby is a Partner at Acquis and Head of the Management Consulting Services Division. For 20 years, he has helped clients solve big problems and pursue major opportunities across a variety of industries, including Life Sciences. He works with executive sponsors on organizational strategy, resource management optimization, operating model design and alignment, and digital transformation.
Contact Kerby