E-Folder - Business

Organising a team building session for, say, 25 people is relatively straight forward. You have enough people to be able to choose from a wide range of activities without having so many that logistics become

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

s a problem. 40 people and one or two options start to drop out as the extra people can't physically be accommodated at a specific venue or mean that a limited resource would need to be queued an unreasonabl

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

Examples of combination products may in

amount of time for. The majority of team activities really start to creak once you hit 50 people and 60 is an absolute upper limit for probably at least 80% or more of the options.

So what if your group si

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 is larger than this? For example, if you are organising a team building event for the entire sales force of a large organisation? Or even an entire company? What are the challenges involved and how can y

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

u pick something that delivers the outcomes you want without making a Sir Elton John party budget seem tiny by comparison?

The challenges are probably twofold: space and logistics. Unless your team building

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

Combination pro

event is being held in guaranteed sunny climes, you are going to need (even if only as a backup) something that can be run indoors. For many options, you'll also need enough space to run it for that number

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

of people in addition to the space that they'll take up just by being there. So if you have, say, 300 people at the event, you could well need to book a venue with space for 900 just to add the extra space

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

ou need. Alternatively, you could select an activity that can be run at the tables they'll be sat at anyway. There are very few good options that cope with large numbers of people, yet require little in the

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

way of space or facilities. But they do exist.

Logistics as a problem increases exponentially with the size of the group. Most of the options that can handle large groups do so by using more people and/or e

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

quipment to increase the size of the bottlenecks. For example, if you choose to offer people something based on the TV show "Crystal Maze", the suppliers will bring in multiple copies of each of the challeng

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

s (and maybe even the crystal dome itself) and effectively run multiple concurrent smaller events. This can add to the cost considerably - and also feel like it isn't really one activity.

If you have in min

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

Following aspects would a

definite objectives that include helping people appreciate that they are all part of a wider team, then you are best off with something that targets those objectives and has everybody working towards the sa

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

e goal at the same time. You might, of course, still choose to create a competitive spirit by organising the group into teams and offering prizes to the best performing. However, it will be important to ch

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

oose something that integrates with your key messages and makes people feel that they are part of the wider group and not independent of it.

Using technology as a base offers a great way of handling large g

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

oups within a single, integrated team building activity. Carefully chosen to meet the desired outcomes, technologically based activities don't need to add large numbers of expensive people, large amounts of

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

ulky equipment or multiple zeros at the end of the invoice amount. What they can add is a sense of fairness to all participants and teams and an extra dimension in terms of how believable the activity is. So

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

e team building simulations really can "suck people in" to their scenarios and deliver amazing experiences.

Another option is to keep to a very simple activity that requires the whole group to work together

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

to achieve it. Your choice, as always, should be based to a large degree around what you want to achieve, how long you are able to dedicate and - of course - your budget. Simple activities have the advantag

.

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

that they are usually priced accordingly.

Whichever option you plump for, make sure that the activity providers have a track record in handling groups of a similar (or larger) size to your own. Hundreds of

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

people all moaning about an activity is an experience well worth avoiding. On the other hand, there's nothing like the buzz of a successful large group team building session!

Copyright 2006 Sandstone Limite

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

HTTP = HTML link (for blogs, profiles,phorums):
<a href="http://www.e-folder.org.ua/article/45770/e-folder-Team-Building-with-a-Large-Group.html">Team Building with a Large Group</a>

BB link (for phorums):
[url=http://www.e-folder.org.ua/article/45770/e-folder-Team-Building-with-a-Large-Group.html]Team Building with a Large Group[/url]

Have you emailed offers to potential coaching clients and not gotten a reply? Do you wonder what you are doing wrong? Or, do you wonder if email marketing really works? Maybe you should just stick to networking meetings, cold-calling, and word of mouth.

How understanding and focusing on strategy will make your business life easier...

One of the most important activities to complete prior to opening a dollar store is to establish specific sales goals. It is even more important to determine the actions that will be taken to actually achieve those goals. A reasonable budget must be established to support those actions. Finally ongoing monitoring of actual sales is required to insure goals are achieved. If goals are not being achieved, new actions or adjustments to existing actions must be added.

Tags

Links

E-Folder - Team Building with a Large Group

Related Articles: