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Department Strategy

Where is your department heading? What does collaboration look like? Are colleagues enabled to make breakthroughs? We provide strategic support to (academic or clinical) departments to help them to operate with strategic focus, strengthen leadership, and prioritize inclusiveness and collaboration.

Setting your department up for success

At Catalyze, we generate insights, and together with you turn them into a clear strategy. We identify strengths and weaknesses, before providing suggestions for improvements to leverage and resolve them. This gives us a clear view of the way that research groups, PIs and departments can synergize and optimize their collaborations.

With our Department Strategy service we re-establish priorities with a renewed focus. The result is a strengthened positioning, collaboration, clear career tracks, and enhanced departmental culture.

Our approach

These are some of the things you can learn through our Department Strategy, for your case specifically:

- Change strategy: Prepare research groups for changes to the team due to retirement, reorganization or the set up of new research lines. Break through cultural barriers that limit clear career tracks and diversity & inclusion.
- Collaboration strategies: improve collaborations between research groups, PIs and departments in specific areas, such as research topics, way of working, data management, or leadership. The theory of change combined with innovation workshops helps your team establish sound solutions that are relevant, realistic and that stick for the long term.
- Research strategy: create alignment in your department regarding strengths and opportunities. Determine strategy to best employ available resources (ideation, FTE, materials) and gain additional resources (grants, collaborations).

Through delivering the above, we help to set your department up for success.

Develop your departmental strategy, make impact!