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This is not another story about my UPS man, but it is related. (See Signature Selling) I had the privilege of going Pheasant Hunting in Kimball, South Dakota. I traveled with my father-in-l

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

aw and brother-in-law, and a few others for a total of eight. Now there are more than hundred lodges across America from which to choose, and I happened upon this place called Wings of Thun

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

Examples of combination products may in

der while surfing the internet. The plane travel would be somewhat easy and the daily price seemed right. After speaking with the proprietors on the phone, our date was set. We would hunt t

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

ree days and spend four nights - in February in South Dakota. Cold!

The accommodations were comfortable and fun. We had a pool table, big screen TV, card tables and a restaurant style cool

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

er for our beverages. The staff was courteous each and every day. They told us how things were and there were no changes. Each wonderful meal was served promptly whether you were there or n

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

Combination pro

ot. Hunting each morning and afternoon was fun because the birds were plentiful. And during the times we didn't want to shoot birds, we could skeet shoot on a challenging course. The overal

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

experience had us talking about the place for weeks. In short, we had fun and we will return. Upon reflecting on the trip, it wasn't that they blew us away with customer service, fed us

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

good food or put us on thousands of birds. What made the trip a memorable experience was that they chose to do CERTAIN things extremely well, and others they didn't do at all! We were on ou

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

r own getting to the place - no help there. If you wanted to skip a tasty meal, you waited until the next feeding time to eat. The staff was courteous, but they run a hunting lodge and expe

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

ted the rules to be followed. Therefore, they were not very flexible, and not your best friends. After all, you're supposed to bring your friends with you. And the pricing was a bit high if

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

you went over your daily limit of three birds. But we didn't travel 1,000 miles to shoot three birds, and they knew that.

Now this is not a commercial for Wings of Thunder, but more of a

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

Following aspects would a

case study. It is evident that they strive for differentiating their lodge from the other lodges across South Dakota as well as the rest of the country. The overall experience is packaged a

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

a spectacular Pheasant Hunt. Ok now, here are a few important questions that will require an answer by the time you finish reading this. What distinguishes YOUR business from everybody el

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

se in the financial services industry? How do you package your business that has people talking about you for weeks after they do business with you? And what makes people want to do busines

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

s with you over and over again? If you can respond to those TODAY - you're set. If you don't have an immediate answer, then there is a lot of room for improvement in your practice. The neat

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

thing is that making those improvements will pay immeasurable dividends in the long run. You just have to take the time to develop, communicate, package and deliver your distinguishing char

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

acteristics.

The best place to start is by calling your top five clients (who bought more than two times from you, not just earned you a big pay day) and asking why they do business with y

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

ou. Take the time to listen and write down the answers they give you. Compile the answers from all five and there you have a foundation of why people like doing business with you, and no on

.

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

else. Now you can start telling that story to prospects.

It is painfully obvious that what you offer in this wonderful financial service industry is a commodity - we can all buy insurance

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

and invest our money with any licensed individual. What you MUST do is differentiate yourself. Wings of Thunder did. So much so that I wrote about it and will make it a priority to go back

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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