In December 2007, I was excited and extremely optimistic that January 2008 would be a great month for Creo Quality to begin its transition to strategic services. January is now four days old and it will be tough for this to be the month. I’m engaged with two clients that need quite a bit of tactical assistance.
With client #1, we are tying up all loose ends with respect to product development, design controls, etc. for a 510(k) submission. The target is January 18 and will require lots of time, effort, and energy by the entire team to get there. We will. Client #1 also had a milestone to start a clinical trial January 21. Some recent events have pushed this out.
Client #2 is poised to begin final system animal testing over the next few weeks. We plan to submit an IDE packet to the FDA in early February. Again, lots of loose ends to shore up before then.
We had a call with a potential strategic client this week. This company has expressed interest but timing in December and early January have been prohibitive. I’m not discouraged about Creo Quality’s grand mission. I know we will take off very quickly in the very near future. I’m just anxious to engage clients and to help struggling companies with strategic solutions. I realize that to get there it will be a tricky balance of continuing tactical services for existing clients while growing a new client base.
If this were easy:
- everyone would be doing this.
- it wouldn’t be fun.