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Your business is up and running and all the pieces appear to be falling into their place. You’ve got clients, a schedule that works and an

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

organized system in place as well. Yet there is a small voice inside of you that keeps questioning if this will work. Do you really know

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

Examples of combination products may in

this business will work? Can you really be sure that it won’t come to a crashing halt, leaving you with an empty organizer, a lack of clie

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

ts and no money in the bank?

Well, it may seem that there is no way to predict how successful you will be or not. It may seem that forces

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

eyond you will declare how well your business will do, leaving you feeling helpless. Actually you have more control than you think. That

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

Combination pro

s the good news, as well as the bad, since it leaves the control right in your lap.

Do you want to be successful? That may seem ridiculou

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

to ask, given your commitment to this new venture, but look yourself in the mirror and ask these questions:

1 – Do I really want to be su

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

cessful?

2 – What would it look like if I was successful?

3 – How would I know if I were successful?

4 – What am I willing to do to be s

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

ccessful?

5 – What am I doing right now that will not support me in being successful?

Once you begin to feel that success is a perfect fi

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

for you, it is time to visualize how much success you actually want. Begin to live into your visualization, as if it is already occurring

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

This is the real challenge.

For instance, if I asked you to visualize what it would be like to be at a carnival right now, what would yo

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

Following aspects would a

u see? What would you feel? What smells might be associated with it? Even if it has been a long time since you have been to a carnival,

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

ou may be able to smell the sweet scent of funnel cakes. You may hear childrens' yells coming from the rides. You may recall the things y

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

u and your friends laughed about. Perhaps you even recall the freedom associated with it, as you paraded around without adult supervision.

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

If you close your eyes, you may even be able to truly imagine being there.

Imagining the success of your business, what it will look like

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

sound like and taste like when you are as successful as you want to be, needs to be that clear. So clear, that as you describe it, it is

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

s if you have been there before. Unlike the carnival, this is challenging because you haven’t experienced this success yet with your busine

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

s, and in effect; will be making it up. In Coaching we call that creating and it can be one of your most powerful tools in becoming a succ

.

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

ss.

Create what you want, and then have it become reality. You will be amazed to see that when you live into a reality that is not quite

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

ere yet, the reality will not be far behind. As a matter of fact, it may come so easily, you may wonder why you didn’t live into it sooner

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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