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The CEO of a company represents a company’s culture. Important –- regarding change -- is whether the role of the CEO is more that of a manager who is safeguarding

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

the current culture or one who is leading a (cultural) change.

The difference between leading a company and managing the same is not a secret. Leaders take the

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

Examples of combination products may in

ead and come (up) with a new direction. The manager is the custodian of the (new) direction. Let’s take Google as an example. Larry and Sergey were leading the co

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

mpany (before it made any real profits), and Eric “took over” to manage the profits.

Nancy is the CEO of Wolters Kluwer a Dutch company dedicated to information

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

rokerage. Nancy got elected to manage Wolters in 2005 as an incentive to increase the company’s performance. Before her position as a CEO she led the North Americ

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

Combination pro

n division of Wolters. Favoring her as a CEO made clear that her way of managing the division and later the company was to set an example. The company’s culture w

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

ould soon have to follow this new way. She was elected as a new leader.

Rijkman is managing ABN AMRO -- a Dutch bank -- for the last seven years. This bank has b

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

en acquiring others in a smooth pace but up to now the bank was not able to consolidate these acquisitions in a way that the earnings per share could rise at the

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

same time. The “market” demanded a solution. A possible merger with Barclays from the UK has been targeted as such a solution, but other banks are interested in p

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

rts of the bank too. Currently, the market is leading the company; the CEO is currently bounded to a margin in this change process.

This growth dilemma could hav

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

been avoided by choosing a less risky strategy. But in this example the bank got stuck in the middle and instead of acquiring others she became a takeover candid

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

Following aspects would a

ate herself.

Recently a famous soccer player-coach-ambassador commented: “The impression I got from talking with him … coincides exactly with the way he is leadi

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

g such a traditional bank…” With other words, he didn’t agree with the CEO / Leader, someone who is changing the bank away from whatever tradition.

From a cultur

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

al point of view you could ask whether the CEO is only responsible for this strategy or that the CEO is merely the one representing the corporate culture. The dif

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

erence between a manager and a leader is important in this sense. A manager would represent the actual culture, the leader the preferred culture.

Another example

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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

Is George leading “Corporate America” or is more a kind of a manager directing an “administration?” Not long ago I found an interesting article: ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

w" href="http://ezinearticles.com/?An-Open-Letter-To-the-Good-People-of-the-Middle-East-From-the-Were-Not-that-Stupid-Americans&id=261943">“An Open Letter To the

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

ood People of the Middle East From the We're Not that Stupid Americans”

The article could be summarized as: “He is only the CEO and I don't agree with the st

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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

rategy!”. America is much more, like the Bank is much more than the CEO. Yet this and any other CEO represent an important aspect of the corporate culture.

Wheth

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

r the CEO is more of a manager or a leader, in either case; the CEO is the example or the most visible facade representing the corporate culture.

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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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