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This is the story of James, the Restaurant Waiter.

As a restaurant waiter, I make ?5.00 an hour and work 30 hours a week. That’s ?150 a week. Once I pay my rent, buy my travel card, make my food sh

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

opping for the week, charge my electricity key and pay for gas, I am flat out for the rest of the week.

However, this is my social life; I have been to every club in town, eaten at every posh rest

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

Examples of combination products may in

urant in the country, attended horse races every weekend, played golf with the country’s wealthiest men and flown round the world in less than 3 years. I hardly pay for things and most of all, I hav

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

nothing less than ?4000 extra cash at the end of every week.

No! I am not a male prostitute and no! I am not a drug dealer. Neither am I an arms dealer. What do I do? I work at this posh restauran

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

in the west end and earn ?5.50 an hour, working 30 hours a week. My secret is what I do during working hours .

Interested? Then read on...

In my first month of working as a restaurant waiter for

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

Combination pro

Petrus, one of Gordon Ramsey’s restaurants, I made a decision to study every single customers that came through the door. This was my territory and I felt it was important that I was aware of every

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

ingle person that came in and out. The first thing I noticed was that there were different categories of people that came in to the restaurant. We had the regulars, the first timers, and the once in

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

a blue moon customers. I also learnt that you could never judge how wealthy a customers was just by what they were wearing. The extremely wealthy could not be bothered to make an effort and the midd

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

e class would do anything to show off. A gentleman trying to impress his new found girlfriend is another story entirely. You could also never tell the generous from the down right stingy.

As a resu

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

lt, I took it upon myself to treat everyone like they were worth a billion dollars. I knew all customers by name within the first 20 seconds of meeting them and remembered their names. This created

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

amiliarity and trust. The next thing I did was to concentrate on building instant rapport by finding something of a common interest between us. I used John Maxwell’s triple A treatment; Acknowledge,

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

Following aspects would a

Affirm and Appreciate. Acknowledging their presence and understanding their reasons for being in our restaurant was critical to a keeping the rapport going. Affirming their status and my loyalty t

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

serving them was also critical to gaining and maintaining trust. Lastly, appreciating them in every way, allowed them to open up to me. I became their friend.

My next strategy was to put myself in

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

their shoes and be them for that day. This enabled me to act before they asked. For example, if I noticed that a couple needed a next round of drinks, it would be on their table even before they as

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

ed for it. I was able to master this by studying their body language. My last strategy was to make sure that when ever I acted in such a manner, I made sure to let them them know that it was on the

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

house. I gave something free. Not the drink, because they could afford it but caring, understanding and a friendly hand. At this point, I deliberately positioned myself out of sight and waited for t

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

em to request my presence. Absence makes the heart grow fonder and as a result, I ended up with generous tips, business cards, free invitations, membership and access to prestigious places, resorts

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

, clubs, hotels, courses, games and much more.

Key Lessons to learn:

Step 1:
Evaluate your territory and the potential clients in it.

Step 2:
Treat everyone like a they are worth a bi

.

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

lion dollars. Give each person an experience worth remembering.

Step 3:
Empathise with your each person by putting yourself in their shoes and seeing things from their point of view.

Step 4:

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

Take action. Do for them what they are thinking of doing for themselves and ask for nothing in return.

Step 5:
Do nothing, be silent, still and patient. The business is about to roll in

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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