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Useful Advices - 7 Strategies for Handling Last Minute Meetings
Have you ever found yourself having to scramble to organize a meeting at the last minute? Wouldn’t it be nice that if and when this daunting situation arose, you were well prepared with all necessary infor
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
mation ready at your fingertips? That’s why I’ve developed the following seven survival strategies to help you plan for the inevitable, because you know as well as I, it’s going to happen ‘someaday.’
Surv
Surv
; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.
Examples of combination products may in
Examples of combination products may in
ival Strategy #1. Question the meeting need.
Before you jump into automatic pilot to start your last minute meeting organization, challenge the request. Since deciding to hold a meeting demands serious co
Before you jump into automatic pilot to start your last minute meeting organization, challenge the request. Since deciding to hold a meeting demands serious co
lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.
nsideration because of the costs involved, both direct and indirect, double-check the rationale for holding the meeting. Develop a few pertinent questions to ask and find out if a meeting alternative, such
here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe
as a teleconference would achieve the same results.
Survival Strategy #2. Know the basics.
If the meeting really needs to happen, make sure that you plan for the basics:
Survival Strategy #2. Know the basics.
If the meeting really needs to happen, make sure that you plan for the basics:
- What is the purpose o
d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.
Combination pro
Combination pro
the meeting?
Where should it take place – on or off-site?
When is it scheduled for – date and time?
What’s the meeting agenda?
Who needs to be invited?
What refreshments and snack
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
s are needed?
What specific materials and equipment is needed?
What travel and hotel arrangements, if any, are necessary?
What’s the meeting budget?
When it comes to budget, remind y
When it comes to budget, remind y
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
our boss that good quality, last minute buying and cheap don’t usually correlate. The reality is that last minute pricing may well come at a premium.
Survival Strategy #3. Develop checklists.
Checklists
Survival Strategy #3. Develop checklists.
Checklists
nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically
should be every meeting planners guardian angel. They’re there to help out in time of trouble and avoid unnecessary panic. With the hundreds of pieces that make up the meeting puzzle, the only way to put t
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
hem together and keep tabs on all the details is with a checklist. Become a checklist fanatic and consider having a checklist for each checklist. Cover all your bases. The more thorough you are, the greate
ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi
the probability of success, even at the last minute.
Survival Strategy #4. Create a contact list.
When you need something in a hurry who do you call? These are the people who need to make up your contac
Survival Strategy #4. Create a contact list.
When you need something in a hurry who do you call? These are the people who need to make up your contac
ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.
Following aspects would a
Following aspects would a
t list. Consider your facility needs, catering, audio-visual, etc. Compile a list with phone including cell phones, fax and email information. Keep this list updated annually as contacts and their informat
dd to the challenges in developing combination products:
Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod
Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod
ion can change. Also include useful website resources as you find them, but remember to check them out beforehand.
Survival Strategy #5. Build relationships.
Don’t wait until you need a favor from someon
Survival Strategy #5. Build relationships.
Don’t wait until you need a favor from someon
cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin
e, rather continually find ways to build a “dream team” or support network. Build a contact base of other meeting professionals, suppliers, vendors and angels you can call on at the last minute to help you
tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
out. Take time to discuss their strategies and resources for dealing with last minute meetings, and add this information to your “survival kit.” Don’t forget to include your fellow co-workers who might be
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
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
willing and able to help out at a moment’s notice.
Survival Strategy #6. Develop contingencies.
Because your plans are last minute, the greater the chance of something not working out the way you’d like
Survival Strategy #6. Develop contingencies.
Because your plans are last minute, the greater the chance of something not working out the way you’d like
ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.
Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
it to. So what’s your backup? If you don’t have one, all your original plans could be destroyed in an instant, and you’ll be scrambling even more than before to put a second strategy into operation. Have a
y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
Plan B ready “in the wings” just in case you need it. Once again, the more thorough you are, the greater the probability of pulling off this miracle.
Survival Strategy #7. Learn to laugh.
Keeping a sens
Survival Strategy #7. Learn to laugh.
Keeping a sens
.
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
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
e of humor will definitely help prevent you getting mad, angry and frustrated with those disorganized managers who leave things to the last minute and expect you to perform miracles. Learn to laugh at them
elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.
Companies that provide selfless information through particip
Companies that provide selfless information through particip
and yourself to keep a saner perspective on life. If nothing else, remember that laughing is a great survival technique, which is good for your health and will help reduce stress and blood pressure levels
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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