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For many years my family owned one of the most influential retail wine operations in the country. Maria was our Italian wine expert, and she loved Italian wines, as

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

well as many other varieties (actually only Italian wines, come to think of it!). To her, Italy wasn’t the center of the fashion world; it was, without question, th

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

Examples of combination products may in

e center of the food and wine universe!

Maria left our company to work at a wine importer. The company had an exquisite portfolio of Italian wines. She was excit

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

ed to try her hand at selling. Her first six weeks were terrible. Her boss was all over the board, hot and cold, good and bad, reversing herself, unpredictable. An

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

d she was consistently inconsistent. She changed direction almost every day. Poor Maria didn’t know whether she was coming or going.

This situation is all too com

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

Combination pro

mon in business today. Part of “Hitting the Grand Slam” with customers is hitting home runs, every day, for your associates. To truly create a winning, customer-fo

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

cused team, you must motivate and make it fun for everybody. Taking care of your internal customers, the staff puts them in a frame of mind to take care of the exter

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

al customers, and the results are more sales and higher profits.

Here are a few easy ways to do this:

•Don’t throw them out there on the first day without training

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

. The Ritz Carlton understands that an employee is never more shapeable than on their first day.

The Container Store trains people for 120 hours before they ever se

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 foot in a store. Other legendary companies understand how important it is to train and support new people. In the case of our Italian diva, her boss’s erratic beh

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

avior left Maria feeling frustrated and de-moralized. The feeling is not uncommon. According to a recent study of 1.2 million employees of Fortune 100 companies, 8

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

Following aspects would a

5 percent of employees have a significant decline in job satisfaction and morale after 6 months.

Clear direction from Maria’s boss would have made a huge difference

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

.

•Acknowledge the hits and learn from the misses:

Martin Broadwell said that praise is the bullet- proof vest for front-line service personnel. It’s important to

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

praise swiftly when staff have done a good job. Conversely, it is vital for new associates, as well as existing ones, to learn from their mistakes.

I remember my y

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

ung son (Ben, 4) admonishing me one morning when I laid his clothes out wrong. They should have been upside down because, “you have to do it wrong to do it right”,

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

he said. His shirts had to be backwards and upside down for him to put them on correctly. Our associates do things wrong all the time. Usually, they do things wro

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ng before they do them right. It’s so important to learn from those experiences.

•Set high expectations.

If you set high expectations, and explain those expectati

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

ons to all your associates, you will get high performance. Conversely, if you don’t expect much, you won’t get much. This has been my experience in 19 years of bus

.

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

iness. There were many times when the moment we raised the bar of someone’s expected performance, their effort and subsequently their results improved dramatically.

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

Whatever happened to Maria? Her boss was re-assigned. The new supervisor knew how to motivate and make it fun, and her territory results have gone up significantly

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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