What I learned week 16
This week was our final class as well as our final presenter, Beth Schively, Marketing Director of Scapa Healthcare and a graduate of WNE. I’ve heard Beth speak before at a pharmaceutical business luncheon, so I had a little knowledge about what she did and who she worked for. Scapa is a global strategic outsource partner of turn-key, skin friendly adhesive solutions for the healthcare industry. Scapa Healthcare partners with market leaders to design, develop, manufacture and commercialize innovative medical device products. One of Scapa’s competitive advantages is that they will not compete with their partners. Scapa does not sell to the end consumer, they work directly business to business. Their biggest competitor 3M does compete with its partners because they’ll bring their competitors adhesives to market, as well as their own. Both products could be side by side on the shelf. Scapa sees this as a plus for them because their customers feel like they aren’t being cheated. Beth talk