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Dealing with Office Distractions, Part Two

Unnecessary Work

Unnecessary work is a silent productivity killer in the office environment. By unnecessary I don't mean that the work should never be done, but rather

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

more important work should take precedent. These tasks are the small things, the "zero" time activities that can consume your work day if left unchecked. Some examples that come to mind include dealing with email, attending mee

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

Examples of combination products may in

tings and battling with common office applications.

There are three simple things that you can do to combat time leaching activities.

1. Get Disciplined

Email encroaching on your day? Here's a simple solution.... Stop

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

checking it. Yes, you heard me right, stop checking your email. You can't read or reply to something you have never opened. Now before you jump into the antisocial deep end, allow me to qualify my statement. Stop reading and r

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

esponding to email as soon as it comes in. Set specific times to read and respond to email. Resist the temptation to respond immediately, be disciplined. If you are using Outlook you might as well go in and also turn off the fe

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

Combination pro

ature to notify you when a new message arrives. You don't care when a message arrives, you'll be checking email at five till the hour now. Email is like the bathroom door after Uncle Frank visits, it is best left unopened as lo

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

ng as possible.

2. Get Organized

One of the best ways to tackle marathon meetings is to be organized. If you are the organizer, come with a clear agenda and stick to it. Assign someone to be the time keeper. When an ag

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

nda item's time slot expires, move on. Be sure to note what was decided and discussed, but if the agenda calls for 15 minutes for the budget, then it should take 15 minutes. Maybe less, but not more. If you are not the organize

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

r of a time waster meeting and just the victim, all is not lost. Call on the organizer to provide an agenda and time estimations. Stay on them until they show some organization in their actions.

Even with a well structured mee

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

ting you still may feel as though your time is being wasted. The root problem here may be that your presence may not be needed in the meeting. Besides identifying what should happen in a meeting, the organizer should also ident

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

ify who will do what. Have the organizer provide a list of roles for the meeting, along with a list of required and optional attendees. It could be as simple as "Jane will give a budget update and John will give us a dry run of

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

Following aspects would a

the Cunningham presentation" From this statement it is clear that both Jane and John must attend the meeting. Everyone else will play the role of listening to the budget update and being the audience for John. So if you know a

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

ll about the budget and you have already heard the presentation five times, you probably aren't needed at the meeting, so don't attend. Score one for productivity.

3. Get Trained

Stop fighting your tools; Stop wasting

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

time fighting the auto-format "feature" in Word, just ask some one for help. There are plenty of resources online and at your local bookstore on every major software package. You can also take a course on that problematic softw

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

re at a community college. Ask around your office for help with the application. If it is a Microsoft Office product ask a friendly person with the title Administrative Assistant. They would be the underpaid, under appreciated

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

people who know all and for whom in their absence the business would suffer a sudden and firery death. (If you can only remember one special event a year, don't remember your birth day or anniversary, remember June 4, Administr

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ative Assistant Day. The admins of the world are nodding their heads right now in agreement...) Administrative assistants are a great resource and often know all the little tricks inside the Office applications. Be sure to not

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

just barge in, they have other work to get done too. A friendly email would be a good place to start.

Once you actually get some training on that troublesome application you may find that those once annoying features are actua

.

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

lly fairly clever and useful. Of course you may be more angry, but the discussion of expensive software gone bad is for another day.

In conclusion, I hope you have come to the realization that you can take control of your prod

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

uctivity. Unnecessary work can be headed off at the pass with just a little work on your part. And who knows, with all this extra work you are getting done now you just might be up for that next raise.

Till next time.

--Wizki

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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