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Question: My boss conducts terrible meetings. What can I do to help? Answer: First, be aware that some p 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 eople feel threatened by new ideas (or suggestions). Thus, apply common sense, choose what seems reasonabl ; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug. Examples of combination products may in , and be diplomatic. 1) Start with praise, such as: “I know you work hard. And I have an idea that would lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together. help you get more done.” 2) Offer to help with some small part of a meeting that would make the process m here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe re effective. 3) Leave a book on effective meetings on your desk. 4) Give your boss a book on effective d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations. Combination pro eetings as a gift. 5) Conversationally (such as during lunch) mention that you read an article about meet 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 ings that told about a "really great" technique for . . . . (something such as preparing an agenda, or mak 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 ng decisions, or etc.) 6) Confront your boss directly with an idea, such as, "I think our meetings would nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically take less time if we had an agenda." 7) Offer to prepare the agenda for a meeting. As part of this task, 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 sk your boss questions such as, "What is your goal for the meeting?" or "What result do you want to have a ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi the end?" Then ask other questions such as, "What do you think is the best way to accomplish that result? ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it. Following aspects would a ". 8) Ask your boss to use a facilitator for a meeting. 9) Ask your boss to send everyone to a workshop dd to the challenges in developing combination products: Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well? Which combination prod n holding effective meetings (because everyone else needs it). And of course, your boss should attend, jus cts are meaningful and rational? Which therapeutic categories to select? Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients? Do combin t to find out what everyone else will be learning. 10) Wait until your boss complains about bad meetings. tions increase the patient compliance? What would be the developing cost? How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen Then ask gentle guiding questions such as, "What makes you upset with that?" Perhaps, such questions can l 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 ad your boss to accepting a new idea. 11) Complain about someone else's meeting. For example, you could s ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality. Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust ay, "Wow, what a waste to time. No agenda and no one know what to do. We just sat around and talked about y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products verything except anything that mattered." - - Caution. This can backfire if the boss reacts by defending t . 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 he other person. If none of these ideas work, then you might consider: 12) Wait until your boss retires, elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements. Companies that provide selfless information through particip moves on, or quits. 13) Ask for a transfer to a different department (to enrich your career, for example) 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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