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Recognized as the fastest-growing handset manufacturer on the planet, Motorola has recently seen its sales figures skyrocket represent

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

ed by a 53 percent increase in July 2006, over the previous quarter. However, Motorola’s main competitor, Nokia, remains the industry’

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

Examples of combination products may in

leader with 34 percent of the market selecting to purchase its unique mobile phone models. Those two giants are followed by other mob

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

ile manufacturers, like Samsung and LG, which hold 12.8 percent and 6.9 percent of the market respectively, while Sony Ericsson comes

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

n fifth place enjoying 5.9 percent of the telecommunications pie.

But, as all business professors point out in their Business 101 cla

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

Combination pro

sses, the difference between being first, second or last in the future lies in the hands of a company’s present strategic decisions. F

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

rming the right alliances, finding, targeting and succeeding in satisfying the needs of the currently emerging markets, makes all the

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

difference in the world for any type of company in almost any type of industry. Being such, the fierce competition telecommunication c

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

mpanies have to face today is based both on their product’s appeal and on their ability to interpret fast-changing trends; both in eco

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

nomy and personal taste.

Given the above, Motorola’s biggest challenge was to understand which features of today’s mobile phones are

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

ostly desired to be sold to those emerging markets, like India and China, where mobile telephony has been gaining the most ground. Esp

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

Following aspects would a

cially after Samsung’s threat, two years ago, to overtake Motorola, the company had to find a new idea to surpass its competition and

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

also remain in the top bunch. By developing low-end phones and targeting India and China where the main money is, Motorola managed to

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

ncrease its sales margins and momentum. Focusing on a highly trendy new design and incorporating basic technological features, Motorol

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

a produced and sold more than 50 million units of one brand of phone alone, marketed as Motorola RAZR.

But although Motorola managed

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

o surpass Samsung’s buying-out threat, it still has to challenge its main current competitor, the all-powerful Nokia. Perhaps the goal

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

of overtaking Nokia rests with the next generation of phones, as experts support. Although Motorola has introduced the next RAZR 2 mo

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

el, the Canary, it certainly has not made a huge impact to consumers, who are mesmerized by the cool, trendy features Nokia mobile dev

.

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

elopers are continuously launching. But in business, as well as war, it is always wise not to begin counting chickens before the eggs

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

ave hatched. So, consumers and industry’s critics alike can only wait to see what will the telecommunication giants will think of next

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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