This award is designed to recognise outstanding achievement in adapting rapidly, engaging with innovative solutions and creating a swift, successful response, which in some cases might include transformation
Agility and flexibility are consistently called-upon in healthcare as companies deal with a range of challenges and crises – from product failures and market shifts to changing priorities and sudden demands – so this award recognises original and innovative solutions.
The ability to respond rapidly, maybe work differently to the status quo, and deploy creative thinking are essentials in a healthcare space that is evolving at pace and reacting to global, regional and sector specific turbulence. Coping with a crisis or a sudden change of direction/priority provide the ultimate test of agility, flexibility.
This might include, if relevant, how you have pivoted in the use of AI.
Rising to challenges requires clear, strategic planning, bold solutions, sharp execution and the capacity to use lessons to inform future practice.
Therefore, this award recognises activities and teams who can demonstrate agility and flexibility beyond the normal course of what would be expected.
Entries must:
Be medical / biopharma-related
Include a clear timeline of events and actions
Examples might be (but are not restricted to):
- Rapid change of market conditions
- Rapid programme adaptation
- Organisational change
- Stakeholder change
- Compliance change
- Business specific crises
Who should enter?
All types of healthcare companies and/or their support agencies.
The submission should address the award criteria and specifically focus on a chain of events that led an organisation to have to change direction or course of action and the results of this activity.
Definition of agility and flexibility
For the avoidance of doubt, we will be defining “agility” as the ability of an organisation/team to identify, and rapidly change/adapt successfully to crises and new circumstances.
For example, this might cover analytical, operational, innovative, communicative, and visionary agility.
Flexibility is more about you, your team and other stakeholders and how they adapted their working practices to respond and create a positive outcome.
Transformation – in this context, means making significant and purposeful changes. It might involve rethinking structures, processes, and culture to bring about positive and lasting change
