You sales reps are unfucking real.
Wah wah they're tracking where we are by our car/secure ID/laptop
But now you WANT the device that actually HAS that capability?
The reason you still have a laptop and not an ipad is because the ipad is not "there" yet in terms of replacing a laptop. No real file system, a wide open app store (which incidentally has apps in it that would violate compliance rules), and an overall restrictive existence make it an "add on" rather than an "instead of". The iPad is a device for consuming, not creating - and if you're doing your job you SHOULD be creating materials.
Wah wah I want an ipad wah wah wah.
You sales reps are unfucking real.
Wah wah they're tracking where we are by our car/secure ID/laptop
But now you WANT the device that actually HAS that capability?
The reason you still have a laptop and not an ipad is because the ipad is not "there" yet in terms of replacing a laptop. No real file system, a wide open app store (which incidentally has apps in it that would violate compliance rules), and an overall restrictive existence make it an "add on" rather than an "instead of". The iPad is a device for consuming, not creating - and if you're doing your job you SHOULD be creating materials.
Wah wah I want an ipad wah wah wah.
For a company like Pfizer that claims to be a leader in innovation and technology, it sucks in implementing it.
Med sales has you beat in real sales, once again.
http://www.apple.com/ipad/business/profiles/medtronic/
Possibly one of the dumbest, most un-informed posts in CP history. way to go.
Possibly one of the dumbest, most un-informed posts in CP history. way to go.
Yeah, if it were up to you Pfizer would still be using the 500 B.C. paper method to record calls.
well yes, I would prefer paper and non-computer sales presentation material, but that's not the point.
Do you own an iPAD? Do you have any idea how they operate or what they're designed for? It's not conducive to what Pfizer wants to do for several reasons. One of the previous posts put it pretty well. The iPAD is designed for consumption not creation. Hell, you have to plug an iPAD into a laptop just to update it and enable certain functions....you want an iPAD because you think it's cool. Use your brain.
iPad for consumption and not creation? Do you own an iPad? Ever hear an the App store?
Never mind, I'm sure it can't be used for sales presentations either.......
http://www.apple.com/ipad/business/profiles/medtronic/
iPad for consumption and not creation? Do you own an iPad? Ever hear an the App store?
Never mind, I'm sure it can't be used for sales presentations either.......
http://www.apple.com/ipad/business/profiles/medtronic/
Did you watch the video and read the article on this link? This isn't something that is relevant to Pharma nor is it something
It's a neat link, but Pfizer isn't dropping the ball on this. iPAD isn't a good fit for the
sales industry for many reasons that you and the OP either didn't consider or don't understand.
Did you watch the video and read the article on this link? This isn't something that is relevant to Pharma nor is it something Pfizer can do.
- The two main uses of this for medtronic are visualization of the how the devices work, and a comprehensive, real time ordering system. Docs don't need to see how our drugs work (nor do we even know for the most part) and we as reps don't order anything for docs. It's Pharma promotion, not device sales.
- Medtronic uses the iPAD mostly with their own in-house developed apps. Doing so is made much easier by the fact that they don't live under anywhere near the same legal and compliance restraints that pharma does. Can you imagine if Pfizer wanted to run it's sales business through in-house created iPAD apps? Do you have any idea how many regulatory and QC measures that would require to satisfy the government?
It's a neat link, but Pfizer isn't dropping the ball on this. iPAD isn't a good fit for the pharma sales industry for many reasons that you and the OP either didn't consider or don't understand.
iPad is a term used to refer to tablet devices. The iPad may not be ideal for use but it doesn't mean that samsung or other brands are not.
The laptop the field uses now is cumbersome, freezes, inflexible and a turn off to customers. It's a real problem and in typical Pfizer fashion, someone proposes a creative solution and others are there to squash it, insult the proposal and the one who proposed it, then vigorously defends the status quo.
If you ever wonder why R&D can't innovate it's way out of a cardboard box, here is your answer.
"iPAD is a term used to refer to tablet devices"? Are you fucking kidding? It's referring to THE IPAD, you idiot.
Google - verb-to search something on the Internet or Pronoun-name of a search engine company.
TIVO - verb-to record something on a DVR or Pronoun-name of a DVR manufacturer.
iPad - noun - name often used to refer to tablet PCs or Pronoun-the name of a tablet PC manufactured by Apple Computers.
Shall I go on. You literalists are the truly stupid ones. No vision, creativity or intelligence. Get over yourselves.
