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As mentioned in an earlier article, a Bloom Team made up of four or five of your achievers can really accelerate your marketing. This Bloom Team can be used to:

Validate
Implement
Criticize

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

When an achiever validates one of your ideas, she lets you know your thinking is on the right track. Coaxing creative ideas to the surface is a recurring marketing challenge. Not all your ideas will generate a positive ch

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

Examples of combination products may in

ange for your company. To create is to risk. You’ll never discover completely fresh ideas or combine old ideas in innovative ways unless you are willing to climb onto some fresh limbs.

And that means that yes, sometimes you are going

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

to fall. Some of your best creative ideas will wind up being outlandishly stupid. That’s okay! If a few of your proposals aren’t a little bit out there then you are stuck in creative first gear and need to upshift your imagination a no

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

tch or two.

So, an achiever can help you by validating your ideas. Of course the market is always the ultimate test of any marketing concept. And who is “the market”, if it’s not your clients? Some of your achievers will be in touch w

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

Combination pro

ith your clients in a much friendlier manner than you. Others will be in contact with clients in different and distinct ways from you.

Of course achievers can and should also criticize your marketing ideas. The last thing you n

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

eed is a bunch of so-called “yes-men” or “yes-women” on your team. You know your customers aren’t “yes-customers”. They tell you what they want and can be pretty blunt about it. Nothing wrong with that; it speeds us on the way to makin

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

the sale.

But often your best achievers intuit when a new marketing idea runs counter to your brand and your marketing mission. Openly listening to Bloom Team feedback is never more critical than at these moments. Big companies shou

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

ld listen to their achiever base more; some could avoid millions of dollars in losses if they did.

You can be nimbler than these big companies. You are plugged in at a much closer level to the customer.

But, the most valuable thing a

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

chievers do, is implement. You can devise the slickest marketing idea ever, but if nobody in your company is sufficiently behind it to put it into action, you’ll go nowhere.

Think back to other jobs you’ve worked, when “managem

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

ent” had some new wonderful directive they wanted to introduce and ensure everybody followed. A memo on a bulletin board or a short speech from a supervisor were all the notice that most of us ever got, especially when we were at lower

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

Following aspects would a

, entry-level jobs. Unless we worked in a very intimate setting where there were ten people or fewer, we were usually distanced from management. So implementing the new order became as joyful as a forced march.

Your Bloom Team can be

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

the vehicle to help you change this type of top-down, dictatorial marketing style in your small business. The achievers must become active carriers of the marketing message to the rest of the company. They are like missionaries, sprea

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

ding the new marketing word out to the employees that haven’t yet heard it.

The achievers will buy-in to the marketing ideas because they are active in the creation of these ideas. Since they believe, they’ll be able to convince many

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

f the employees, simply because of their positions of respect and authority in the company.

Most achievers are viewed as respected peers by other employees. On some level they are perceived as co-workers, even if they are in superviso

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

ry positions. Your marketing ideas can be effectively implemented within the company when you have a small cadre of achievers pushing forward for you--your very own Bloom Team to help the company flourish and grow.

One final tip: Crea

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

te a “New Idea VIC Checklist”.

This tool can help you with any new idea you are launching. It could be a new campaign, a new brand headline, a new media push. The main idea is this: Use a checklist or some other type of cheat-sheet a

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

s an aide in your meetings. If you can’t fill out during the Bloom Team meeting, then please fill out immediately afterward. At the top of the page, insert a brief description of the marketing idea; underneath list names of team membe

.

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

rs, their comments, and then a simple “plus” or “minus sign” to indicate if the individual team members liked the marketing idea or not. Then, at the bottom, write down your next steps and a target date for completion of these next st

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

eps (very important if you want to keep your marketing projects moving forward).

Remember: Brand (who you are) + Package (your Face to the Customer) + People (customers and employees) = Marketing Success.

© 2006 Marketing Hawk

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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