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There it is. The event you’ve been waiting for. It’s all the big name speakers you’ve been drooling over, it’s in a city you’ve been dying to visit and it’s just the perfect information you need right now to take your business to the next level. You 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 grab your plane ticket, pack up the laptop, ship Rover off to the doggie sitter and are off. Three days later, it was a fantastic event. You met great people, you learned a ton of new things. You’re pumped up and ready to go. Three weeks later some ; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug. Examples of combination products may in ow you can’t remember the name of that great contact you’d made and you really haven’t changed the way you do business. Here are some steps to take to set yourself up for success before you actually fork out your hard earned dollars. Figure out 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. hy Way before you head out the door ask yourself . . . WHY are you going? What do you want to achieve? Is it to meet people? Get specific information? Get motivated? Get new business? Or maybe it’s because you want to corner a speaker for 15 min here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe tes to pick their brain. Why, why, why? Determine why you are really going in the first place. This is called a desired outcome. Write out your desired outcome so you know ahead of time what you want to accomplish. Go in Prepared Now that you’v d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations. Combination pro determined why you are going. Determine what you need to do to achieve your desired outcome. What preparation do you need to do before hand? If one of your desired outcomes is to talk to a certain speaker, maybe there is a VIP lunch you buy a ticke 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 t for. If you want to pick up some new business, maybe you bring some samples with you, so you are prepared for an impromptu sales meeting. Maybe there is a contact you want to spend some time with so you fly in a day early. Whatever it is, think abo 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 t it ahead of time and go in with a plan. Play 6 Degrees of Separation As a kid, my mother always said, “never say anything bad about anyone because you never know who they know”. Well, she was right. Someday, two people will be having drinks nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically n Mars and one will say to the other, “Oh you’re from Earth, do you know Bob?” And they will. Once you are at the event, be prepared to meet people and figure out who you know in common. It never fails to amaze me how you can randomly meet someone i 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 an elevator, who lives in a different city than you and it turns out you know a ton of the same people. Or you can sit down for lunch with someone you don’t know and find out that they grew up with your out-of- state cousins. And no, I am not making ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi this stuff up, these are actually things that have happened to me. This is important because it helps you quickly bond with people and form a relationship. I’ve landed new clients because it turned out we knew several of the same people, which gave ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it. Following aspects would a me instant credibility. Create a plan of action So when you’re not out in the hallway chatting it up with someone who could recite your rolodex, you’re probably listening to speakers and soaking up a ton of information. All too often I’ve had p dd to the challenges in developing combination products: Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well? Which combination prod ople tell me that they are so overwhelmed with the amount of information they are getting that they have no idea where to start. Here are a couple of ways to manage your information so you can implement what you’ve learned. Forget your American Exp cts are meaningful and rational? Which therapeutic categories to select? Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients? Do combin ess card. Never leave home without a packet of post-it notes. In your notes or handouts, mark pages with action items or ideas that you want to revisit with a post-it note. Then, when you go home, revisit all the post-it note pages first and add thos tions increase the patient compliance? What would be the developing cost? How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen ideas or action items to your day-to-day activities. Or create a master action list. Take a couple of pieces of paper and put them at the very front of your seminar notebook. As you learn new things that you want to incorporate or you get ideas, jo 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 them down on the list. Don’t censor yourself, just jot it down. This way you come home with a targeted list of action items to explore. Review your list. Decide if and how you want to move forward with each item and then simply check them off once y ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality. Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust ou’ve tackled them. Seminars can be a great way to learn the latest and greatest techniques, get motivated and build your network. Being prepared before you walk through the door will give you that extra edge to make it even better. See you at the n y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products xt event. © 2005 Beth Schneider. Want to reprint this article, feel free as long as you include the following: Beth Schneider, Chief Infopreneur of Process Prodigy, is a business process consultant who helps solo-entrepreneurs, small business owners . 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 and network marketers who want to systemize their business to increase profits, increase productivity and grow their business without having to give up the family oriented, flexible, balanced lifestyle they desire. Beth works one-on-one with her clie elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements. Companies that provide selfless information through particip ts, offers home study courses, and teleclass boot camps. For more information visit http://www.processprodigy.com and sign up for your FR*EE 5- Step Process Starter Kit and FR*EE Process Tips 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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