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Influence of Gen AI on Pharmaceutical Marketing – Now and in Five Years – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1088 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1088 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: fauxels Credit: Polina Tankilevich Credit: This is Engineering Preamble It is a foregone conclusion that the Generative Artificial Intelligence – Gen AI or simply AI – has already started influencing every walk of life. The pace of change is so rapid that it has become difficult to keep adjusting with it. But we must keep pace with the changing landscape to survive respectably or risk to be perished. In this blog post, we see how AI has already influenced pharmaceutical marketing. We shall also try to visualize the next five years and the possible changes that might be coming. My reference is not strictly lo...

Eid ul Fitr 1446/ 2025 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1087 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1087 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Mohammed Alim Credit: Omar Alsharawy Credit: Thirdman Prayers, Wishes, Felicitations, and Celebrations on Eid ul Fitr Certainly, Eid brings excitement and happiness. Although in this time and place, the reasons for happiness are becoming more and more elusive.  The world generally has become a dangerous place, much more dangerous for the weak. The rule of power and force and the philosophy of might is right has taken roots firmly. We are the weak ones, and we pay heavily due to it. Closer to home, law and order has crumbled, and people are under severe threats of all kinds. The law enforcement agencies cannot be entirely blamed because the quantum of ...

Global Fertility Crisis 3 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1086 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1086 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Aa Dil Credit: cottonbro studio Credit: Ketut Subiyanto Preamble While population growth is alarming for the countries and the world at large, this is one side of the picture. An even more alarming situation is the falling birth rate which has gone down drastically low.  I am discussing this matter through drawing material from a recent McKinsey report along with articles from various other sources. Links at the end. Support Ratios Will Continue to Fall The world shall become more and more youth-scarce, which means that the number of workers per senior will fall.  Support ration is the number of people of working age relative to senior citizen...

Global Fertility Crisis 2 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1085 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1085 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com   for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Jimmy Chan Credit: Mumtahina Tanni Credit: Sam Rana Preamble While population growth is alarming for the countries and the world at large, this is one side of the picture. An even more alarming situation is the falling birth rate which has gone down drastically low.  I am discussing this matter through drawing material from a recent McKinsey report along with articles from various other sources. Links at the end. Reasons for Declining Birth Rate Falling birth rates across the world are driven by a combination of social, economic, technological, and cultural factors. Here are the key reasons globally. Pakistan has a different situation due to major...

Global Fertility Crisis 1 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1084 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1084 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Daisy Laparra Credit: Muqtada Mohsen Preamble During the last census, the digital census as it was called, Pakistan population was estimated at over 240 million. More importantly, population growth was found to be 2.5% across the country, while Balochistan had 3.5% population growth. These figures were presented as alarming because our country could not afford such high growth. Regional comparison put India at 1.7% and Bangladesh at 1.9%. However, in all these statistics, there was no calculation of average number of children per family, which also means how many children a woman shall have during her entire number of fertile years. While population gro...

Edgar Schein’s Management Lessons – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1083 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1083 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Kampus Production Credit: Mikhail Nilov Preamble Edgar H. Schein was a social psychologist who bridged the academic and pragmatic sides of culture and organization by practicing his own tenets on humble leadership and inquiry. He passed away on January 2025 at the age of 94. Schein, who was the Society of Sloan Fellows professor of management emeritus at MIT Sloan, joined the school in 1956, when it was still known as the MIT School of Industrial Management. During his 67-year tenure, Schein authored dozens of books on social science subjects including career dynamics, organization culture, group dynamics, and interpersonal interactions. His three-tiere...