Content Updates Requested on Corporate Websites

Jul 25, 2019

As a Site Owner you are responsible for your site to be up-to-date. Please check that all these listed updates were executed on your site.

Content Updates requested in 2021

Add Tout to your homepage for Financial Results (January, 2021)

We request all corporate websites Novartis and Sandoz to add a Tout element to promote Novartis 2020 Financial Results. Novartis 2020 Financial Results will be published on 26th January 2021 at 7:00 CET

Content updates requested in 2020

Our Mission and Vision statement is now updated - For NOVARTIS websites

Please update the mandatory content on your country website until end of November.

The usual place for this content on country website is at https ://www.novartis.xx/about-us/our-mission-vision
You can see the new language on the Novartis corporate homepage: https://www.novartis.com/our-company in full

Old wording	New wording
Our Mission and Vision	Our Purpose and Vision
Our mission is to discover new ways to improve and extend people's lives.	Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives.
Our vision is to be a trusted leader in changing the practice of medicine.	Our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world.

Change Code of Conduct to Code of Ethics (September 1, 2020)

New Code of Ethics is out! We require to execute on your corporate website a change of Code of Conduct to Code of Ethics in all places on your local external websites.

Please check your website thoroughly using the search functionality as there could be some local language versions of the PDFs somewhere on your site.
You can leverage the new page on Novartis.com if helpful: https://www.novartis.com/our-company/corporate-responsibility/ethics-risk-compliance/code-of-ethics
Please execute this change within the next few days. Thank you for your effort in advance.

HCP at Country Level (August 31, 2020)

Please create this page as Interior Page with Title “Healthcare Professional Resources” on your website within a month
Create the content according to the blueprint: https://stg.blueprint.novartis.com/our-work/healthcare-professional-resources
Place this page link as “Healthcare Professionals” in the section “Our Work”
Place this link page also into your page Footer
Sandoz – related HCPs will be investigated - wait for Mark’s communication

Coronavirus content evolution (April 30, 2020)

All corporate websites to have a /coronavirus – it can either be real in the root or a redirect to an existing page or hub on your site, but can’t redirect back to www.novartis.com

This action is required for all Novartis and Sandoz websites to be done within 1 week.

Covid-19 Activities and Guidance (March, 2020 )

ALL countries are required to add the Covid-19 statement and updates on their corporate websites

We have open door for you at Corporate Web Operations team

Add Tout to your homepage for Financial Results (January, 2020)

As mentioned today on the Corporate Website Owners Network call, we request all corporate websites Novartis and Sandoz to add a Tout element to promote Novartis 2019 Financial Results. Novartis 2019 Financial Results will be published on 29th January 2020 at 7:00 CET

Content updates requested in 2019

Remove Flicker icon from your site (January 2019)

When we created the global templates, Novartis had an active Flickr account. Since then, the account has been retired. Your sites include a link to Flickr in the footer. This now results in a broken link.

*This has been centrally removed in March for all sites which didn’t act on this change

Change Alt tet on Novartis logo (February 2019)

Novartis logo hover over text - the Alt tet needs to read "Novartis logo: a global healthcare company". This is a small configuration change and you can find the guideline at this link:

https://www.groupdigital.novartis.com/stories/standards/guideline-change-alt-tet-novartis-logo

Privacy Policy and Cookie banner update (May 10, 2019)

The "About Cookies" page has been merged into the "Privacy Policy" page. Content change is needed on the Privacy Policy page. Use the text or its translation in your language from the Blueprint http://stg.blueprint.novartis.com/privacy-policy.

As the About Cookies page is no longer valid, the link in the Cookie banner needs update and point to the Privacy Policy page. Use the how to guide on www.groupdigital.novartis.com/corporate-websites/feature-catalogue/how-update-cookies-link-banner

In addition, the link to the About Cookies page in the footer should be removed and a redirect added.

New pattern for Career page and subpages (May 10, 2019)

Career page and its subpages need to have a new carmine chromo combination pattern. Use the how to guide on https://www.groupdigital.novartis.com/corporate-websites/feature-catalogue/novartis-pattern-selection

Alcon Spin-off updates (March 2019)

As of April 2019, Alcon is not part of Novartis company. We request all Alcon related content to be removed according to the guideline provided and add into the Novartis History slide carousel Alcon departure picture slide 11 on https://www.novartis.com/our-company#&gid=1&pid=11

Alcon spin-off request update details you can find on https://www.groupdigital.novartis.com/stories/standards/action-required-please-update-canonical-content-your-website-0

Sandoz Leadership Update on Sandoz Sites (April 17, 2019)

You have a new global leader since April 1, 2019 Francesco Balestrieri , announced in the news https://www.sandoz.com/news/media-releases/novartis-announces-change-sandoz-leadership

If you are using the global leadership information on your site, please update your new CEO details according to the global site: https://www.sandoz.com/about-us/who-we-are/sandoz-leadership.

High quality image is in the email attachment for your use and follow the correct Bio images standard. While executing this change check and update also the rest of the page that it is compliant to our company standards

Updated Life video on Youtube

We have made an update of “Novartis Life” video hosted on Novartis YouTube channel. This updated version is aligned now to our current campaign “Reimagining Medicine” and you can find the video on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUSA096Nn_E&feature=youtu.be

This change has been implemented by the Corp Channel team.

If you are promoting “Reimagining Medicine” campaign on your site, please update the link to this video so your site is up-to-date and the new video is visible to your site visitors. (Old video has been archived and your old link will lead to a broken link)

New Novartis Strategy Content (June 27, 2019)

The new content reflects on our strategic priorities we want to shape our future with. Using icons and line breakers content presents clearly a visual story of our strategy. The guidance is on https://www.groupdigital.novartis.com/news/action-required-new-novartis-strategy-content

Our Business & Innovative Medicines - content alignment (September 4, 2019)

As per consistency of our web presentation all sites need to be aligned with content on all pages wherever Businesses and Divisions are mentioned (menus and content) Sandoz and Innovative Medicines should have the same status, with Novartis Pharmaceuticals and Novartis Oncology in a lesser but equal position. This change has been done in the navigation on www.novartis.com

Action Required:

Review your site and update relevant pages and all subpages according to http://stg.blueprint.novartis.com/aboutus/our-business
The correct version of the content is implemented on Blueprint
This task update is for NOVARTIS SITES ONLY

This list grows with new coming updates, which wil be announced via our Corporate Newtwork Calls, email communique and News updates on www.groupdigital.novartis.com. Would you have any questions to these updates, please contact us on [email protected].