Strategic Planning FOR BUSINESSES

 

Program Evaluation and monitoring

Strategic planning brings stakeholders together to define the direction of the business. The strategic plan is a living “dynamic” document that provides the roadmap to achieve results and create a performance-based culture. Windrose Vision facilitates the strategic-planning process, ensuring the final plan provides a comprehensive framework for accomplishing long-term goals. We collaborate with clients to analyze their organizational systems and processes, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement. We recognize that an organization’s greatest asset is its people. By reviewing organizational goals and evaluating current competencies, we provide solutions that maximize organizational social capital.

Our services include:

  • Organizational social capital and infrastructure assessments

  • Organizational assessments and change management

  • Best-practice assessments for benchmarking

  • Digital transformation

  • Process improvement

Program evaluation provides information that is central to program management and improvement. Windrose Vision practices a collaborative approach to evaluation, teaming with our clients and partners to understand their strategic objectives. We tailor the evaluation scope, design, and methods to meet those objectives, while considering the unique circumstance of each client. Our team has expertise in research design, innovative data-collection methods, and state-of-the-art analysis techniques. We present evaluation findings in ways that are accessible to diverse audiences and help clients use results to improve program effectiveness. We specialize in planning, designing, and implementing evaluations for biomedical R&D programs.

Our services include:

  • Evaluability assessments

  • Formative, process, outcome, and impact evaluations

  • Performance measures

  • Customer satisfaction surveys

  • Program theory and logic models

  • Survey designs and analyses

  • Needs assessments and gap analyses

  • Assets assessments

Policy Analysis

Policy analysis can be a powerful tool for decision making. At Windrose Vision, we work closely with clients to analyze policy options, monitor implementation, and assess the extent to which policies achieve desired outcomes or produce unintended consequences. We help our clients increase the impact of their policies and programs and make informed decisions regarding resources allocation.

Our services include:

  • Prospective analyses—comparing alternatives based on probable consequences of implementation

  • Retrospective analyses—evaluating and documenting the effects of an existing policy

  • Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses

  • Social impact analyses

  • Development of position papers and white papers

  • Recommendations on best use of existing evaluations, studies, and performance data

  • Literature reviews

Program Development, Management, and Measurement

Successful programs address a demonstrated need, have clear goals, and value performance measurement and continuous quality improvement. Windrose Vision works with clients to identify appropriate performance metrics during all phases of the program life cycle. We help clients to identify gaps in program processes and opportunities to more effectively and efficiently achieve strategic objectives. We team with clients to assess progress, demonstrate results, and make necessary corrections. We also develop performance-data collection systems and analyze performance data. We aid program managers in applying results to improve program processes and outcomes. 

Our services include:

  • Needs assessments and gap analyses

  • Assets assessments

  • Feasibility/demonstration studies

  • Development of performance metrics and measures for biomedical, behavioral, and public health programs

  • Development of metrics for research training; research career development; and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs

Technical Assistance and Training

Technical assistance and training strengthen organizational capacity and improve program outcomes. Windrose Vision offers a broad range of assistance—from phone consultations to one-day seminars to intensive, onsite, multi-day trainings—designed to strengthen and improve the skills of stakeholders with all levels of expertise. We begin every engagement with an in-depth assessment to understand the goals and culture of the organization. This enables us to customize trainings to ensure our services meet the specific needs and objectives of our clients. 

Training topics include:

  • How to adapt and tailor evidence-based health interventions for diverse populations

  • Design impact evaluations

  • Develop valid and reliable data collection instruments

Research Portfolio Analysis

Research portfolio analysis can serve as a tool for strategic planning processes or provide information about an existing portfolio. Windrose Vision uses portfolio analysis to identify areas of overlap in existing portfolios and gaps in relation to existing goals. We compare internal and external portfolios to increase understanding of the internal portfolio’s role in a broader context. Windrose Vision performs descriptive and comparative biomedical R&D portfolio analysis as an additional tool to inform ongoing research management processes. 

Questions that research portfolio analysis can answer include: 

  • How can the organization more efficiently allocate resources (e.g., streamlining or eliminating programs)?

  • What priority areas are consistent and can be coordinated across the organization’s existing programs and initiatives?

  • What has been the organization’s investment in research of a particular category?