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Is This All There Is?

If you have your own business and it is successful, at some point you must be asking; “Is this all there is?”

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

Most entrepreneurs started their business to accomplish three things:

1. Improve their quality of life
2. To be free & inde

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

Examples of combination products may in

endent
3. To be in control of their personal & financial destiny

What happened? In order to be successful, you had to be ti

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

d to the business.

But it’s ok. You are a smart, hard-working, talented person. After all, you started a business and have kept i

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

afloat. Everything, and I mean everything, depends on you. You don’t really have a business. You have a job from which you can ne

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

Combination pro

er be fired. You are “Super entrepreneur”.

If you are like most business owners, you work 10-12 hour days, skip lunch twice a week

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

work every other Saturday and an occasional Sunday. Vacations, if they exist, are very hard to schedule and keep the business runn

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

ng. Some business owners simply close their doors in order to get a vacation. All the while the overhead continues. This forces t

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

em to work harder when they get back and to avoid vacations in the future.

How can you change an entrepreneur from being his own em

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

loyee to being the business owner? Do not start with the business. It is not the business that is the problem; it’s the owner. You

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

opened the doors without any idea of the life you wish to have or a business that would support that life. You are the biggest prob

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

Following aspects would a

lem and the best solution to changing your business.

The most important product an entrepreneur can create is a great business. Th

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

goods and services delivered to customers are merely tools the owner uses to design a business that will continue after he is gone,

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

and pay him just because he created it.

The process begins with getting focused. But, what are focused on? Are you focused on the

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

never ending problems, obstacles, and crises that dominate your business? Or are you focused on a strategic personal and business p

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

an that will build a life, rather than just a career?

There are four parts to this process:
1. Focus on your preferred future.

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

br> 2. Develop new success Habits and sharpen old good habits.
3. Build a structure of accountably to help you implement your

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

trategic personal and business plan.
4. Develop a balance in your personal and business life.

The purpose of this process is

.

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

o enable the entrepreneur to enjoy the journey from survival, through success, on to significance. How is your business? Where do

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

ou want to go from here? Only you can answer that question, but you have to make the time, be creative and have the energy to do it

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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