1 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:09,980 Well, thank you, Judy, for the opportunity to speak to you today and reflect on the strategy lab process. 2 00:00:10,010 --> 00:00:16,910 I'm consultant in adult infectious diseases by background, and a number of years ago, 3 00:00:17,300 --> 00:00:23,270 I stepped away from the hospital setting to set up a clinical research network. 4 00:00:23,930 --> 00:00:32,660 And with that behind me, I became a member of the Governance Steering Committee, and then more recently, deputy chair. 5 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:36,080 And I'm here today with my gore and deputy to hat on. 6 00:00:40,410 --> 00:00:49,139 I think the fact that I had worked with the Rafael and his team before on Star in Planning was Grupo DA 7 00:00:49,140 --> 00:00:58,710 Consortium of Research Funders gave me the confidence to present this idea to the Governance Steering Committee. 8 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:05,220 It wasn't too difficult to make them realise that we needed to revise our strategy, 9 00:01:05,220 --> 00:01:16,350 certainly in light of the ever changing global health ecosystem at the moment and to help us find a place no matter what the future holds. 10 00:01:17,730 --> 00:01:28,680 During the pandemic and after the pandemic. And so I, I presented to the steering committee that this process, supported by Sbcs, 11 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:35,400 would provide us with a safe space, a neutral space in which to explore uncertainty, 12 00:01:35,940 --> 00:01:42,330 to try and put some sort of framework around the uncertainty that the pandemic has helped to create, 13 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:50,870 and where we could comfortably try and challenge some of our assumptions and ideas about what the future holds. 14 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:56,550 And the steering committee reasonably quickly got behind that idea. 15 00:02:01,990 --> 00:02:06,880 Give yourself enough time. Think carefully about. 16 00:02:08,110 --> 00:02:12,070 Do you need to do this over six months to deliver a revised strategy? 17 00:02:12,430 --> 00:02:19,360 Have you got longer? And I think probably you can only answer that for your own organisation. 18 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:25,480 Probably more important than that. So is actually getting the right team on board. 19 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:35,169 So we had a small team who were readily available to work with the SBS team to help 20 00:02:35,170 --> 00:02:40,540 prepare material to inform them so they could get up to speed about who Galina is, 21 00:02:40,540 --> 00:02:44,410 what do we do? What are our challenges? What do we think the future might hold? 22 00:02:46,210 --> 00:02:53,380 And so, you know, you do need a committee team and and they will have to be committed for a number of months. 23 00:02:54,220 --> 00:02:57,730 Preparation of the material is equally important. 24 00:02:57,730 --> 00:03:05,350 And I have started to mention that so that the the actual labs run smoothly. 25 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:13,060 We did quite a few briefings with our steering committee on shared material in advance of those briefing calls, 26 00:03:13,540 --> 00:03:19,120 so that when we went in to we held three lumps as part of the process. 27 00:03:19,390 --> 00:03:26,830 When we went into one of those calls, the steering committee were completely up to speed and looking forward to just getting stuck into and 28 00:03:26,830 --> 00:03:33,610 exploring the process and making sure that you've got the right internal people running that table, 29 00:03:33,610 --> 00:03:41,499 shaping those scenarios and having those discussions is very important because that's the the start of it. 30 00:03:41,500 --> 00:03:45,930 And and really you have to get that part right, too, 31 00:03:46,010 --> 00:03:53,800 to ensure that the subsequent discussions are being explored around a framework that you all feel as though you can work with then. 32 00:03:55,300 --> 00:04:03,550 But then for the third lab, we went out to our wider members for going and had a strategic conversation, 33 00:04:04,030 --> 00:04:11,470 exploring specific questions around each of the scenarios, which is very useful. 34 00:04:12,250 --> 00:04:15,580 But then of course it doesn't necessarily start and stop there. 35 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:20,210 You may wish to consider complementary source material. 36 00:04:20,230 --> 00:04:28,660 For example, we did a survey of our members in parallel and we did some external stakeholder interviews to help inform the process for us. 37 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:39,610 And currently we have gone through the process of digesting all the source material, discussing it further with the steering committee, 38 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:51,910 and now we are back out for regional consultation to really make sure that whatever we finally say is implementable, it's feasible. 39 00:04:52,150 --> 00:04:55,570 It means something to our partners at country level. 40 00:04:58,690 --> 00:05:04,780 Now I think I think that's probably the key part. It's mainly around the right people planning and preparation. 41 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:18,450 I think the safe space cannot be underestimated. 42 00:05:18,450 --> 00:05:25,260 I think, you know, because we were talking about made up futures through the scenario planning process. 43 00:05:26,280 --> 00:05:31,890 I think people felt quite comfortable that they could throw some new ideas on the table without, 44 00:05:31,980 --> 00:05:35,040 you know, people going, oh, how can you possibly say that? 45 00:05:35,490 --> 00:05:38,310 And it could be calmly explored. 46 00:05:38,970 --> 00:05:48,420 But I think for us, for a group, I mean, having been involved with going over the past 20 years and on the steering committee since 2016, 47 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:53,490 we yes, there is a real community feel to to to go on. 48 00:05:54,510 --> 00:05:59,700 But I think actually the steering committee function improved even more. 49 00:05:59,730 --> 00:06:05,310 I think we bonded even more than I ever expected to through the process. 50 00:06:09,860 --> 00:06:20,780 Just to acknowledge how friendly yet professional and committed the said business school team were and are. 51 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:29,569 And we have ongoing working relationships with them and we will publish together and I'd be more than happy to to do this again, 52 00:06:29,570 --> 00:06:30,680 perhaps with another group. 53 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:41,479 So thank you to De Rafael Marte and others to help to go on hopefully and to and to a new future, whatever it might look like. 54 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:42,200 So thank you.