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New healthcare industries

Fitness, wellness and health are taking on key importance for more and more people, and affecting their purchasing decisions. This market is attractive for all types of companies and today already worth roughly EUR 60 billion in Germany per year – and the demand is growing across all walks of life.

In brief

Knowing what the customer wants and penetrating new sales channels

Not all companies are profiting equally from market growth. Many healthcare products are hugely successful, whereas others remain niche products. This is because healthcare needs can be very different.

Our research on the healthcare market has identified the basic needs of consumers and clustered similar healthcare customer types into groups. Each group requires different products and communication approach.

The key to market success is setting up a strategy that clearly focuses on the customer

  • Exhaust the willingness of private healthcare customers to pay:

    "Traditional" players can provide offers customized to the needs of customers with private healthcare insurance
  • Optimally leverage the healthcare market:

    Providers from other industries can align their health products to penetrate new submarkets
  • Tap synergies ("rehab + travel = wellness"):

    The convergence of previously separate industries and markets is leading to more and more profitable collaborations with considerable innovation potential

Sample project

Using collaborations to enter the secondary healthcare market

In a project for a healthcare provider, we generated new competitive advantages by partnering with other providers in the secondary healthcare market. This enabled the providers to open up new sales channels to the customer. The insurance provider was able to broaden its product offering and project an innovative image. Customers are now able to find their way through a maze of products and offerings.

Our experts

Austria

Roland Falb

Managing Partner

Vienna, Austria
Phone: +43 1 53602-201
E-mail: e-mail

 

France

Christophe Angoulvant

Senior Partner

Paris, France
Phone: +33 1 53670-984
E-mail: e-mail

 

Germany

Jochen Gleisberg

Partner

Stuttgart, Germany
Phone: +49 711 3275-7221
E-mail: e-mail

 
Thomas Kwasniok

Partner

Düsseldorf, Germany
Phone: +49 211 4389-2104
E-mail: e-mail

 
Oliver Rong

Partner

Berlin, Germany
Phone: +49 30 39927-3564
E-mail: e-mail

 

Greater China

Matthew Chang

Partner

Shanghai, Greater China
Phone: +86 21 5298 6677 886
E-mail: e-mail

 

Netherlands

Tijo J. G. Collot d'Escury

Partner and Member of the Executive Committee

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Phone: +31 20 7960-600
E-mail: e-mail

 
Benno van Dongen

Partner

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Phone: +31 20 7960-600
E-mail: e-mail

 

Sweden

Hans Nyctelius

Partner

Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46 8 410438 0
E-mail: e-mail

 

Further reading

think: act CONTENT "Fundraising"

think: act CONTENT (in German only), 2012

Together with the Deutscher Fundraising Verband, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants conducted a study on "Fundraising in German hospitals". The objective was to determine whether fundraising …  >>

 
The cross-industry significance of the secondary healthcare market

Speech held at the ISPO Munich 2012, 2012

At the ISPO Munich 2012, Karsten Neumann, leader of the practice group payors and politics , held a speech on the cross-industry significance of the secondary healthcare market …  >>

 
think: act CONTENT "Betriebliches Gesundheitsmanagement"

think: act CONTENT - available in German only, 2012

Occupational health is high on the agenda of employers, health insurance funds and governments. Employers must keep their ageing workforces healthy and start to view health programs as a way to improve their attractiveness as employers …  >>

 
Weltweite Gesundheitswirtschaft

Study (in German), 2011

The Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology commissioned Roland Berger Strategy Consultants to analyze the German and international healthcare markets …  >>

 
Erfolg auf dem Gesundheitsmarkt

Study jointly with WKÖ (in German), 2010

Healthcare is a megatrend - understandig the characteristics is essential …  >>

 
Evolution of medicine

think: act CONTENT, 2010

A new think: act CONTENT says how diseases, medicine and health care are changing worldwide – and what we should do …  >>

 
Strukturen der Prävention - Die richtigen Programme für die Bürger

Study (in German), 2009

The Germans clearly have some catching up to do when it comes to prevention and living healthy. That's the result of a study by Roland Berger Strategy Consultants which surveyed 1,000 Germans …  >>

 
E-HEALTH Wachstumsperspektiven für die Telekommunikationsbranche

Study, 2009

According to our study, the market for electronic healthcare services (eHealth) offers the telecommunications industry huge potential …  >>

 

What's new

think: act CONTENT "Fundraising"

think: act CONTENT (in German only), 2012

Together with the Deutscher Fundraising Verband, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants conducted a study on "Fundraising in German hospitals". The objective was to determine whether fundraising …  >>