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I was driving down to one of my clients Keytek UK Limited one morning recently, on a lovely summer’s day, listening to Michael Gerber on my CD

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

player. I have a rule that if I am in the car on a work day, that is work time, so I must use this time to improve my knowledge in some way (

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

Examples of combination products may in

you should try this it is a great way of learning about running a successful business).

Gerber is the author of the e-myth and one of the wor

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

d’s leading experts on small business.

To be honest, I was only half listening, when suddenly he said something that made me ‘prick my ears u

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

p’.

He started talking about how McDonalds first started. Ray Crock walked into the McDonald brother’s restaurant when it was a small local r

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

Combination pro

staurant to sell them a milk machine. Ray noticed that the McDonald brothers had a fantastic business and so he approached the brothers asking

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 buy the franchise rites to McDonalds and as they say the rest is history.

History shows that Ray Crock bought the rites to franchise McDo

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

alds for next to nothing, because that it what the McDonald brothers thought is was worth. They had tried to franchise the business, but let’s

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

face it. In those days who would buy a franchise Burger Bar? The brothers believed that if someone wanted to be in the Burger Bar business th

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

y could just go ahead and start their own. The reason the McDonald brothers did not value their business was that they believed that they didn

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

’t have the time to franchise it, as they worked every hour there is making hamburgers.

This reminds me of what many business owners keep say

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

Following aspects would a

ing to me. They are too busy making hamburgers, or completing accounts, or repairing locks, or cleaning ovens, or designing websites, or what

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

ver it is that the business does.

If you think abut it, most people reading this article went into business X years ago and they went into bu

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

siness doing the work of the business.

If they had worked really hard and long hours where do you think they would be now? You are correct, s

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

ill working very hard!

However, all successful businesses people go into business to run a business that completes accounts, or repairing loc

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

ks, or cleans ovens, or designs websites, or whatever it is that the business does and that is what we help people to do.

My questions for yo

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

at this time are:

1. What does your business need to do, look like and be in order for it to give you the life you want?

2. What does it ne

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

ed to turnover in order to employ someone to do some of the work?

3. What is your business going to be like when it is completed?

4. Are you

.

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

going you do anything as a result of reading this article and are you going to optimise your true marketing potential? If so contact MAX Marke

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

ting at www.max-marketing.co.uk steve@ax-marketing.co.uk or telephone 0207 788 7489

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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