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Your managerial success is tied to your team. Teams are the most valuable resource of an organization. The times of lone leadership are over with Alexander the Great. These are the

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

times of the team leadership. If you can build a successful team and work as the leader who is just a little more equal than others you may be able to pull off everything you do with

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

Examples of combination products may in

reat success.

Successful team building requires a lot of focus and effort. Here are a few tips to build teams that are effective and deliver results.

Define the Objectives:

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

oes the team members understand clearly the expectations from them? Have the performance challenges clearly been defined? Do they know what the expected outcomes are? If there is 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

isunderstanding on the results expected from each member as well as that of the team, you may as well write off the team. Great Team + Challenging Objective = Extraordinary Results.

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

Combination pro

b>Define the vision: The teams realize that they may be able to survive only by delivering the bottom line results. However they need something more than the key results defined

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

o them. They need a vision, something higher than profits and results. A higher ideal fires up the team’s creativity and passion.

Empower to Create Ownership: Empower your 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

am to be independent decision makers to accomplish tasks and team objectives while defining their boundaries. Empowered teams and members carry out its objectives faster as they do no

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

need to wait for the leader to decide for them. Empowered teams own up their responsibility.

Train, Train and Train Some More: A leader has a large stake in the success of 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

ch team member. Members of teams require different skills and the leader needs to be a trainer rather than a driver. Identify skill gaps in soft as well as areas of expertise and kee

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

training them to produce better results.

Fostering Right Interpersonal Relationships: Make the team understand that there would be differences. Difference in gender, culture

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

Following aspects would a

thought process and approach to work symbolizes the dynamic and diverse members who have come together to achieve common goals. Respecting the difference and valuing others experien

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

e and thoughts enable the team to function with the right relationships.

Rewards and Compensation: As they say, first share the cash then the compliments. Everyone talks abou

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

the value and benefits of team work. However benefits to individuals must be clear along with the benefits to the organization. Set down the right monetary rewards and incentives fo

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

so that the achievement and benefits for the individuals and organization are balanced.

Lead by Example: A leader always leads from the front. Set example of discipline, per

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

ormance orientation putting aside personal ego to the team’s superiority. Give credit to the others even though you may have contributed more. This nurtures the right team atmosphere

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

and spirit of togetherness.

Celebrate Success: Finally don’t forget to celebrate success. It must become a habit to celebrate every achievement though small they may be. Con

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

tant celebration boosts the team morale driving it to perform at higher levels and aim for bigger achievements.

Many of the business cultures and managements celebrate the lone hero l

.

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

adership much more than the team leaderships. In the modern interdependent world it is the teams within the organizations and multiple teams all collaborating and contributing to the

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

ommon corporate objectives that really differentiate the dynamic growing organizations from the lone cowboy leaderships that may collapse the moment the leader is not available to lead

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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