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At one of my recent photography assignments, a senior vice president was very impressed with the amount of gear that I brought with me and how prepared I seemed to be. He noticed how I planned for the unexpected by bringing redundant pieces of equipme

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

nt. He asked if I did anything else besides photography. I informed him that those areas that make me a very successful photographer, creativity, balance, leadership and personal development, also help organizations provide for increased passion, ha

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

Examples of combination products may in

ppier employees, increased profitability and a more balanced workforce. He was intrigued.

He runs the company 'college' that trains their employees in those areas that are specific to his industry. While he said that the majority of the programs ar

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

e technical, he thought that adding one of my programs would 'round out' the course work. According to the Aspen Institute's Maureen Conway, coauthor on a report on the benefits of targeted training programs, " changes in technology and in the general

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

business environment have compelled many companies to increase their investment in training in order to remain competitive." Not only is it important to introduce technical concepts specific to an industry, but in many ways, it is more important to a

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

Combination pro

dd training that will help employees become more adept at generating new ideas. New ideas are what keep a company in business. With this study in mind, I thought that I had a real opportunity to add value to this company.

I telephoned the person re

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

sponsible for the content of this organization's training all the while referencing the senior vice president who had asked me to call. I mentioned the value of my programs and how it is important to introduce a concept like balance early, so that emp

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

loyee's will practice it from the beginning of their employment or careers. There was an uncomfortable pause on the phone, and then I was told that this company's first order of business was to become more professional and not focus on 'soft skills' l

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

ike work/life balance. My contact said, "We don't want to add any non-technical training; rather we want to motivate our employees to become more professional by working harder and by working longer hours."

I was taken aback. This was exactly the o

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

pposite approach that I would have expected, but it seems to be what is still happening in some American Companies. According to the Wall Street Journal , many of the nation's largest retailers such as Wal-Mart, Radio Shack and Dollar General, have an

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

are still pressuring their salaried managerial staff to work overtime in order to save money and to increase profits. Wal-Mart alone has 30 overtime suits pending in 28 states. I wonder if these managers had gotten a training class on how to be mor

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

Following aspects would a

e professional by working longer hours? The employees are fighting back and just might get those back wages for which they earned. I have seen time and again that an organization cannot continually increase profits through working longer and harder

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

hours. This is a short-term solution that has long-term consequences.

If I want to capture the best photography of an event, of a person or of a place that I am visiting, I need to make sure that I elicit the most authentic response from my subject.

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

One that is natural and not forced. A key way that a program on personal development helps to elicit more authentic responses is by giving employees the tools to be more present in the moment, allowing their intuition to come to the surface to aid in

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

their interactions with others, and allowing them to be true to their innermost intentions. The result is increased creativity and new ideas. One of the largest software companies, SAS Institute, has seen it's sales grow consistently in the double-d

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

igits for over two decades to over $1 Billion annually through such 'non-professional' practices as three weeks or more of annual and 'guilt-free' vacation and by making sure that their employees are not working past 6PM. By encouraging its' employees

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

to have balance in their lives, they have allowed the generation of new ideas and subsequently increased profits.

Increased profits and happier employees only come when employees are encouraged to be more true to themselves. I make sure that I don't

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

overwork myself and provide for proper balance both in my photography assignments and in my professional speaking programs. If I focused on the hours put into a project and not on the quality experience, I would almost always 'miss' the photographic

.

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

opportunity that is created by natural circumstances. Can you imagine if your employer asked you to be creative for the next 30 minutes to generate a new product idea? It just wouldn't happen for it would be too forced. It's time that a positive h

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

abit of creativity is encouraged through the introduction of work/life balance concepts early in employment. Everything we see around us once started as an idea, yet how can we generate new ideas if we aren't training people to make the space for them

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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