Institutional Strategic Planning

 

To succeed in today’s highly competitive research environment, institutions must develop effective, coordinated strategies that maximize their strengths and capitalize on diverse opportunities. With decades of experience at all levels of leadership, GWM’s mentors help colleges, universities, and other institutions develop a formal strategy for an effective research enterprise. GWM’s intensive process of assessment and planning helps build the correct infrastructure, target the right funding, and develop the best collaborations for success at the laboratory, departmental, or institutional level. This GWM service area usually involves deans, top administrators, or other leaders with the authority to develop, change, or promote broader strategy and resources. GWM works to:

  • Identify strengths and weaknesses in an institution’s research capability.

  • Develop a plan to exploit the strengths and fix the flaws.

  • Create a plan to link current and planned research capability to the right funding opportunities.

  • Identify and gather data to create a competitive research infrastructure.

  • Identify relevant funders and the researchers they seek to fund.

  • Develop strategy for collaborations between institutions and individual researchers.

  • Identify relevant public and private research data resources to enhance research proposals and identify more global sources of funding.

  • Train researchers, departments, and institutions on how to find funding opportunities.

Sample Seminars

  • Strategic Research Enterprise Planning for a Competitive Edge

  • How to Use Public and Private Research Data Resources to Develop Collaborations at the National and International Level

  • “Universe of Opportunities” - How to Use Big Data Resources to Improve your Competitive Edge

  • Best Practices for Utilizing Program Data for Individual Researchers

  • How to Triage Potential Funding Opportunities

  • How to Find Best Funders for your Science

  • Using Bibliometric Information to “Sell” Research Ideas to Funding Agencies

  • Collaborations in an Era of Team Science