News You Can Use                                        Strategic Partnerships                                                                       Fall 2008 Strategic Partnerships allow you to offer clients and employees opportunities and/or services that are normally not available through your organization.  In today’s economy, it is both common sense and good business to establish select strategic partnerships.   A Strategic Partnership that Works The Concepts Group (TCG) and Integrated Therapeutics Institute (ITI) are pleased to announce a strategic partnership – designed to ensure that clients receive a broad range of communication and healthcare services from one resource.  A resource that offers the highest level of professionalism and dedication to your project – while providing you the maximum return on your investment. ITI is a national healthcare consulting firm that can help your organization differentiate itself from your competitors in already crowded markets. ITI specializes in strategic consulting, data analysis, and outreach programs for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, as well as employer and managed care markets. ITI works with healthcare executives; human resource benefits professionals; medical directors; and other senior-level health care decision makers. ITI helps these organizations analyze pharmacy and medical claims data, offering strategies and tools to better manage healthcare dollars.   What This Means for You TCG and ITI both have strong relationships with a large number of employers – with an emphasis in the financial, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and healthcare industries.  We bring this depth of expertise and contacts to bear for our clients – offering access and information that is generally not readily available to many organizations. This access, coupled with our expertise, allows TCG to offer clients expanded opportunities to reach key decision-makers and senior management. Together, we can develop strategies and implement short- and long-term tactics to help your customers find ways to better manage their communication and healthcare dollars. If your organization is stretched thin and short on human capital resources, our team can work on a turnkey basis. We can provide just an analysis and strategy or we can help you execute that strategy, including all aspects of a communications and/or healthcare project. Project resources may include: senior consultants, writers, project managers, designers, programmers, financial executives, physicians, nurses, pharmacists, actuaries, risk managers, and others related to healthcare communications and/or consulting services.  For more information about TCG, visit www.theconceptsgroup.net or contact Alan Turetz (aturetz@theconceptsgroup.net or call 201.362.2600). For more information about ITI, visit www.integtx.com or contact Barbara Hodge (bhodge@integtx.com or call 518-893.2451). click on the News You Can Use link from the menu on the left side of our home page. Copyright 2008  A.Turetz - The Concepts Group, LLC.