Advisory board meetings and consensus development involve Herculean effort and costs. If the ideation, objective, content, and intended outcomes are not planned to perfection, it can be a considerable loss to the organization, not to mention the lost opportunity for future planning. We manage advisory board meetings end-to-end, including ideation, content for the meeting, moderation, crisp and strategic ad board reports, white papers from insights gathered, and manuscripts for publication.
On this page, you will find some free templates and some resources for planning and deriving the most from advisory board meetings, and some important suggestions for consensus development. If you need someone to take the burden off you, hit the ‘Contact’ page.
Strategic advisory board template
Here is a free template of 32 questions that can be used by medical affairs and marketing to gather strategic insights from advisory board meetings in pharma and medical devices
Well-planned and thought-out advisory board meetings can help you position your existing product to beat competitors in the market as well prepare a launch strategy for a new product.
Based on what we heard from experts during one such meeting during my tenure as a medical affairs head, we dropped the launch plan for a product thus saving a lot of resources.
In fact, it might be wise to conduct an advisory board meeting before a ‘go-no go’ decision about a product that could have high stakes.
Sharing this template that provides some ideas about what to plan in a strategic advisory board meeting. Of course, this is just a general list and will need to be customized according to the product and therapy area.
It has 3 parts – 1) (For an existing product) Sample qts related to disease area ‘X’ in which a pharma company has a product ‘ABC’ 2) (For a new product launch) Sample qts for upcoming new drug ‘Y’, to be launched in a few months 3) (For a new product launch) Sample qts for upcoming new device ‘Y’ planned for evaluation
Advisory board report
This is the standard TOC of an advisory board report. In this example, there were two sessions of 4 hrs each, with the same panel of experts. The meetings were part of the preparation for a new product launch. An exhaustive report serves as a strategic roadmap for the medical affairs and product management team. In addition, a succinct 4-page executive summary is created for the perusal of the senior management, which gives them a complete overview of the discussions and strategy to adopt.
An example of questions around which insights were gathered at an advisory board meeting
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