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Is it possible to run a company in today’s business climate without taking the cut-throat, winner-take-all approach that seems so predominant? While all the big news la

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

tely has been about those companies that have failed, and particularly those that have failed while using questionable tactics and obfuscating accounting practices, not

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

Examples of combination products may in

to mention showing little concern for the average employee, are there still companies thriving while being run in a fashion that recognizes the value of ethics and the

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

contribution of employees who feel like family?

One example that comes to mind here close to home is Celestial Seasonings. In spite of the various changes the company

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

has undergone over the last 15 years, including a stint as a Kraft subsidiary, a time as an independent company, and now as part of a larger health-food company, Celest

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

Combination pro

ial Seasonings has stayed true to its roots. The company treats employees honestly and with kindness, and shares the profits of its success with them. It is a company t

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

at seems to wish everyone it touches—vendors, distributors, customers, even the competition—to benefit from that contact.

So it seems that it is possible to run a comp

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

any in such a fashion that employee loyalty is bred by good treatment, that strong financial results can be achieved without scams or accounting schemes. Why don’t more

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

companies try it?

My theory is that too many of the executives today were trained early in their careers that stepping on others to get where you want to be is not ju

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

t expected—it is the only way to get to the top. Now that they have reached the goal, they are not easily convinced that a different strategy might work equally well.

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

The good news is, the change is coming. It is coming not from the senior people, but from junior execs who are coming of age in a different time. More and more, people

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

Following aspects would a

are coming to the realization that what we do affects everyone else, and the ‘everyone else’ is not ‘them’. It is ‘us’. We are all in this together, and the dawning awa

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

eness of that fact is what will drive a sea change in our world over the next few generations.

Our planet is gradually recovering from centuries of abuse at the hands

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

of uncaring and ignorant populations. As we take better care of Mother Earth, the chances of our race surviving another century rise slowly. And much of the recovery wi

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

ll be the responsibility of the businesses of the planet. Governments can spend huge sums to clean up past ecological disasters and can legislate proper behavior, but b

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

siness is best equipped to prevent it in the first place. If the top management of a company has the attitude that taking shortcuts and violating either our home or the

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

people who live here is the worst possible path to take, this gradual improvement in conditions will snowball with lightning speed.

My vision is not one that will eas

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

ily come to pass. On the other hand, Mo Seigel probably had little inkling of what Celestial Seasonings would become when he and some friends picked herbs in the fields

.

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

outside Boulder to use in his first batch of Mo’s 36 Herb Tea back in 1969. Vision is not about the ‘how’ of it. The realization of a dream seems to take care of itself

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

when people come together to share the dream. As more and more of us come to share this vision, we take another step toward it becoming reality. We make it our reality

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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