Laboratory Operations/Business Services

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Life science companies frequently juggle complex business projects under demanding timelines. The Kelly Group can be a key asset helping your organization develop and manage projects increasing the probability that your project will be delivered on schedule and within budget.

Organizations are continually challenged to meet business demands requiring projects to be completed faster and cheaper. Effective project management can address these challenges insuring successful project delivery. 

Project management at the Kelly Group begins with our initial consultation to assess the current condition and identify the desired results; with this information we can establish the scope of our services. We work with you to establish project control processes and requirements, status reporting, logistical parameters and communication methodology. Through regular project reviews we provide status updates on intermittent milestones, planned activities, budget analysis and suggestions for process improvements.

A strategic plan is a foundational document in any successful business; it lays out your goals and provides understanding as to why those goals are important. Good strategic plans establish a sense of direction, they are made up of measurable goals whose completion advances the organization’s mission. 

The Kelly Group provides professional services to lead your planning process. Our efforts result in a strategic plan that encompasses your organizations mission and vision, details measurable goals and provides a timeline for execution.

We begin with a series of guided exercises to help your organization articulate its mission. This initial session is designed to provide an analytical framework for the planning process and facilitate an honest discussion of lessons learned and institutional priorities. Follow-on efforts are designed to identify key organizational systems slated for improved performance and together these efforts serve as the basis for establishing both short- and long-term goals.

The dividend from a quality strategic plan that has stakeholder buy-in and that is updated regularly is sustained business growth.

Success in business often depends on the ability to adapt to changing conditions. Too often, efforts to improve, adapt, or correct come up short because real change is hard. 

Even under ideal conditions and with the best of intentions It’s human nature to resist change. 

Organizations can significantly increase the probability of success by proactively managing the change process using a planned multistep approach. A planned approach to change management provides a structure that supports the individuals involved as they adopt new operations, approaches to business decisions, behaviors and ideas. 

The Kelly Group specializes in supporting organizations’ management of change ranging from large scale business transformations to more focused and limited projects. The dynamic nature of business in the life sciences sector is such that organizations are changing at an increasing frequency as they respond to new regulations, legislation, cost pressures, and the implementation of new technologies.

We are effective because we take a systematic approach to understanding our client’s operations while considering the social impacts on those involved. We guide you to identify all the stakeholders, establish the gaps between the current state and your vision for the future, and then assist you identifying the methodologies required to make the transition. These methodologies include: 

• creating a consensus that change is needed;
• coaching to provide the skills necessary to effect change; and
• establishing a climate that sustains the change.

Too often developing a business proposal, grant, or responding to an RFP is a side job for the technical staff in small to mid-sized life science companies; or if an in-house business development team exists it can quickly become overwhelmed with opportunities for growth. All three types of documents referenced above present opportunities to communicate you vision to funding agencies, investors, managers and employees. Augmenting your staff to professionalize the process increases the likelihood of success.

With over 35 years of experience preparing technical documents, journal articles, grant requests and contract proposals, the Kelly Group is well placed to augment your in-house proposal efforts from generating a basic template to fully outsourced proposal development.

• Bid/no bid analysis
• Document Template preparation
• Strategic planning
• Pricing
• Technical Writing
• Volume Management
• Review Process Management
• Technical Editing
• Program Management