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Unfortunately many business owners are extremely disorganised and waste most of their time reacting to situations rather than being proactive. They lack time to focus on

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

running their businesses effectively. You'll find they often blame the poor performance of their business due to the economy, the weather, their people and life in gene

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

al, yet it is generally themselves that make or break their business.

Managing their time is an extremely important skill they need to learn, yet it is learning how to m

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

nage themselves which is the key ingredient.

I had a call from a prospect this week. This person has been in business for the past 5 years and employs a team of 5 peop

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

e. The work is flooding in so he's in the office by 7.00 a.m.and doesn't get home until 8.00 p.m. each night. He admits that he can't sleep due to the stress, the proble

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

s he has with his team and he continually lets his clients down because he cannot deliver what he promises. He's also extremely overweight and in his forties so he's hea

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

ding for a major health crisis. He wasn't concerned about his health however it was very clear to me that he needed to take action in this area. When he rang me his go

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

l was to keep growing the business!

It was obvious what he needed to do from my perspective and after further discussion I outlined to him how through coaching he could

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

urn his business and life around. He wholeheartedly agreed with me as his exact words to me were "That's exactly what I need to do. There's no way I can achieve this on

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

y own". Then he said "I just need to discuss this with my wife". Well as soon as he said that I said to him "Do you generally ask your wife before making any business de

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

isions?...and he said 'yes'.

I knew then that he wouldn't get coached...because what would happen is his wife who wasn't a business owner wouldn't understand that in bus

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

iness you need to invest and the biggest investment is in yourself. She would say he can work it out himself or that she knew what he should do....and guess what? That's

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

exactly what happened.

Your business will grow as far as your own growth. Her husband had the technical know-how and by default had grown that business but he now needed

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

different skills to take him to the next level. These skills he didn't possess. Through coaching we would address what he was already doing in his business and how to ma

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

imise what he already had. We'd address his time management and organisation skills, leadership, having a strong team, communication, health, current income and expendit

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

re, goods and services offered, his target market,his finances, etc. All of these areas needed to be solid before looking at sales and marketing. If we didn't do that h

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

is business would fall apart and he would crumble both financially, physically and emotionally.

The point I'm making is that here was a 'businessperson' taking advice fr

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

m someone who didn't have the solutions otherwise, why was this guy drowning in all areas of his life? The sad thing about it is here was this guy doesn't know how to o

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

ganise himself so that he can have more time, more money and more life. In fact if he keeps going the way he is he may not even be alive in the not too distant future.

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

o all I'm saying to you is, you must invest in yourself first and also choose very carefully who you take advice from...even if you're married to them!

Have a great week

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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