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With our daily time frames accelerating and demographics shifting, the need for businesses to get on top of their game becomes ever more important. For example, while the pizza trend took a couple of decades to get firmly root 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 ed in our culture, consider how quickly the cell phone has become an essential ‘gotta have one’ product. And camera phones, the next stage in positioning the trend, are moving even faster. Introduced four years ago in Japan, 5 ; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug. Examples of combination products may in million camera phones were sold by 2003, with expected sales of 338 million by 2008. If a non-essential trend product such as camera phones can foster that much growth, how will the growth of more essential products and servi lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together. es that serve an aging population fare? Understanding trends gives you a profile of the marketplace, both what is beginning to appear now and what will be happening in the near and far distant future. They serve as an early p here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe edictor of how consumers are feeling, what products and services they will be seeking, and how businesses can respond to the anticipated needs. The best time to position a business is before the trend is well established. Afte d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations. Combination pro all, market position is vital to the long-term success of a business. Trend marketing is the foundation of future growth. It is the ability to pinpoint and respond to the changing needs of the customer and do so better than 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 nyone else. While traditional marketing activities, such as customer service, branding, advertising and promotions are vitally important, unless you have identified your future customer, all these activities have no point. Bef 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 re you can market, you have to know your market. Doesn’t that make sense? While conventional marketing competes over a limited market, trend marketing assumes the growth of a market because of changing demographics. The epito nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically e of trend marketing is to be where the customer is looking before they know they’ll be looking there. In other words, developing a business and marketing strategy based on how demographics will impact the marketplace in the f 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 ture. One advantage of trend marketing is the ability to reach the customer by narrowcasting the marketing message. Narrowcasting – delivering the message only to the desired market – is possible when the target market is iso ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi ated from the whole. This is in sharp contrast to traditional broadcast marketing, which has become considerably more elusive, extraordinarily expensive and wasteful of our natural and human resources. A few years ago, conven ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it. Following aspects would a tional wisdom pointed to a reduction of paper usage based on the growing ability to store information electronically. Reality has a different face. Instead of conservation, the convenience of printing devices prompts us to pri dd to the challenges in developing combination products: Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well? Which combination prod t a ‘hard copy’ of just about everything. And with the convenience of the ‘cc’, documents are circulated (and printed) at an every increasing – and wasteful – rate. How much literature arrives in your mailbox that is trashed b cts are meaningful and rational? Which therapeutic categories to select? Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients? Do combin cause it is has no relevance to you? This is the attitude inherent in broadcast marketing – send the message to everyone. It is a lazy, expensive activity used by businesses that do not know their market. It may have worked i tions increase the patient compliance? What would be the developing cost? How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen the old mechanical economy but we’re not there anymore and our time-strapped, information overloaded consumer is looking for relief. Unlike Henry Ford’s ‘any color as long as it is black’ marketing strategy, today’s consumers 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 have a myriad of options. These are extraordinary times to be in business. It requires intelligent planning. The uncertainty and chaos of the marketplace will only increase, particularly for businesses that continue to use ye ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality. Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust terday’s tools to reach tomorrow’s customers. As in all living systems, the business environment must move through cycles of change to stay healthy. During the 1920s and 30s, it was the growth of department stores that change y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products traditional shopping and sent shoppers downtown. The growth of suburban malls of the 1950s and 60s pulled shoppers out of the downtown core. The franchising boom of the 1970s and 80s steamrolled many ‘ma and pa’ shops. In the . 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 1990s and on, the big box retailers forced businesses to rethink competition. How business owners responds to this next cycle will depend on their willingness to see change as an opportunity. Consumer demand drives the speed elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements. Companies that provide selfless information through particip f business and defines how products and services will be delivered. Ultimately, the consumer is in charge. Knowing what they want, when they want it, and treating them with awesome respect is still the road to business success 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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