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Why choose a design agency for your project? With the wide variety of design houses, ad agencies and printers out there, choosing the right supplier for your creative needs can be a daunting prospect. So what are the key elements involved in choosing the right kind of creative resource for your needs? should you employ an in-house designer? What are the pro’s 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 and cons? Most decisions based on sourcing a creative supplier, inevitably come down to budget and what you feel you are looking to achieve. If you are simply looking for a few business cards, and yours is a sector where image is not the highest priority, a design agency may be a more expensive option for the level of input you need. Many types of company off ; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug. Examples of combination products may in er graphic design. Printers no longer just print, even many photographers are offering graphic design as a service, as are stationery suppliers, IT companies and many other businesses. What is a design agency? So what is a design agency, as opposed to these other options? A design agency is a specialist in creative design as a core business. Independence is a lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together. key feature of a true design agency, hence the word ‘agency’ where we are able to choose unbiased solutions that are not tied in to having to use, for example, a certain print provider or being limited by any other linked-in factor. At the other end of the scale, there are advertising agencies. Should you use an advertising agency for design work that is not a here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe dvertising? The probability is that unless your requirements are linked to a certain advertising campaign that has been produced by the ad agency, the level of budget necessary for them to complete other forms of design is usually prohibitive for most businesses. The reverse situation is equally true, most design agencies will not be appropriate for producing d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations. Combination pro broadcast or press advertising, and especially where media scheduling and buying are a factor. The set-up of a design agency can be very effective for some advertising, but usually for limited campaigns aimed at niche target audiences. The right design agency? Within the design agency sector itself, there are still many different options to consider, here are 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 a few points to help in making a decision: • Where is the agency based, do I prefer a geographically close supplier so I can call in, or they can visit face-to-face? • What is their relevant experience, do they have examples within the type of design discipline I am looking for? • Have they worked for similar sized businesses, in closely related business sec 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 tors? • Do they have marketing expertise as well as creative, can they understand wider strategic aims? • Can the agency handle my expected workload, what evidence do they have of this? • What is the specific experience of the team, who will handle the account? • Is the agency doing many more web projects than design for print? Are the designers qualified d nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically esigners for print, or web designers who outsource the print design? • Is the agency willing to give references of satisfied customers other than pre-printed testimonials? • Can the agency provide quantitative results for work, what evidence can they provide for return on investment and accountability? • Which services are outsourced, which are provided in h 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 use? With the explosion of the web as a marketing tool, many early websites were created by IT people, who had no training in graphic design but simply knew how to put a web site together. Web site design has now become a standard part of a design agency’s portfolio and it is a natural progression for clients’ to expect their web sites to have the same leve ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi l of branding as any other marketing communications tool. The main benefit of using a design agency to design your web site is that a graphic designer can integrate your site’s branding with that of all your other marketing items. It is true that many design agencies have to buy-in technical back-end functionality for their sites, but this is only like using a ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it. Following aspects would a printer to print a brochure that has been conceived and designed by a design agency. In-house versus Agency? Many businesses have taken the decision to employ graphic designers for themselves as in-house creative teams. Reasons for this are usually based on saving money as there are many designers available and the equipment investment is relatively low. Al dd to the challenges in developing combination products: Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well? Which combination prod hough employing an in house team can be cost-effective, the inherent danger is that whilst the cost is less, the value created by the designers over the longer term may be reduced as complacency and ultimately boredom set in. Potentially, over a longer term, the cost savings made by going in house may be overshadowed by a reduction in sales and profits as the cts are meaningful and rational? Which therapeutic categories to select? Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients? Do combin ideas in the in house studio inevitably slow down and the communications become repetitive and stale. Of course, it is important to state, that this will not apply to every in house creative resource. Using a design agency has certain key benefits over an in-house creative studio. The main benefit is that of value. Design agencies work in a competitive environ tions increase the patient compliance? What would be the developing cost? How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen ment, their designers must constantly deliver the highest standards of work, as clients have a choice of suppliers who will often compete on a project by project basis. As in football, to maintain a ‘first team place’ it is in the interests of all design agencies to constantly come up with exceptional creative for clients as there are consequences for not doin 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 . This competitive environment benefits clients by offering them cutting edge creativity, and projects that deliver effectiveness and return on investment. In house designers very seldom have that competitive pressure to drive up their creative efforts. Work is effectively given to them on a production line and it can be hard for employers to get a true bench ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality. Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust mark as to whether levels of creative effort are being maintained over the long term. Unlike in-house studios, where the projects may only involve the products and services of one company, designers within an agency work for many different sectors and business types. This constant variety leads to many fresh ideas and the honing of cutting edge creative talent y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products . This variety benefits the client as the designer in the agency is far less likely to become stale over the longer term. Experiences with new design challenges and constant use of the imagination for new products and services, means that when the designer comes around to working back on a certain client’s project, he has all the experiences from other client’ . 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 work to bring to the table. Although the trend for in-house design will continue due to pressure on budgets, working with a good design agency may still be the better option, as long as your agency can deliver cost-effective services, and offer you a measurable return on investment. Apple Creative Design offer clients high quality marketing communications, p elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements. Companies that provide selfless information through particip redictable
costing structures across all projects, and the benefit of strategic marketing capability to back-up all creative initiatives. If you have anything you would like to discuss, contact us any time on 01772 561234. Copyright Apple Creative Design, 2006, all rights reserved. www.apple-design.com 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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