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First time visitors or employees can be overwhelmed and discouraged their first day on the job or their first visit to a new church. They should be more than just welcomed when they f

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

irst arrive. A Running Mate to guide them through the new environment would provide countless benefits later on.

I have been reading a book, It's Your Ship, by Captain Micheal Abrash

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

Examples of combination products may in

ff. I was about half way through it when I came upon a chapter with an ideal that hit me very hard as a way to welcome first time visitors to your church.

Running Mate Program

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

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First time visitors would be meet by a greeter (Running Mate) that will escort them through their first visit at your church. Show them where the rest rooms are located, intr

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

duce them to teachers and give them a tour of the church. Introduce them to the pastor and set with them in church.

A tag team approach could be used. When the first visitor arrives,

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

Combination pro

he greeter would then tag the next greeter to stand duty as the escort for new visitors. Each greeter would have a backup who would be standing by as new visitors arrive, they in turn

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

ould call up their backup when they step up to the plate to greet new visitors. You would need to have one person at each entrance of the church with a plan to signal their backup as t

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

hey are called to duty.

Another approach would be to have the lead person contact the next Running Mate, when needed as new visitors come in. Two way radios are so inexpensive now th

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

t they could be used as pagers to notify the next greeter that they are needed.

Considerations

Some things to consider, would be to make sure that if a female visito

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

is alone, that a female greeter be assigned and if a male visitor is alone, that a male greeter be assigned. If there is a shortage of greeters then Sunday school teachers could foll

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

w up with the visitor and sit with them and show them around. Teens could be assigned to another teen to show the teen visitors around and introduce them.

Care must be taken not to p

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

Following aspects would a

sh the greeters or the visitors into a program like this too fast. Start out slowly and let the greeters become comfortable with the plan, then add to the plan as needed. The goal is

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

to make the visitors feel at home and not as though they are going through some planned program and will be forgotten the next Sunday when they show up again.

After the greeters have

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

ettled into the program, you may want to them be the follow up contact for the new visitor and maybe invite them to a sharing group. The relationship should be on going and care taken

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

not to let the new people get dropped and ignored after a few Sundays.

Benefits

I can see a great benefit to church growth from this plan, not only will the first t

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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

me visitor feel welcome and comfortable in your church, they will also get to know more people on the first visit and more church members will get to know the visitors. The Running Mat

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

would also see to it that the gift for first time visitors was given, visitors cards completed and maybe the greeter could even do the follow up as a personal contact from your church

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

I believe that a team of at least three for each entrance would be required to start this program. The head of your welcome committee would need to train and set up this program or i

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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

corporate the plan into your existing procedures. I am sure that as you develop this plan others would come up with ways to make visitors feel at home in your church.

For companies we

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

coming new employees, a similar plan could be used be used where some would stay with the new employee through the first few days until the new employee felt at home in the new company

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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