The Integrated Research Enterprise
Time to get strategic
You didn't get into this work to spend late nights editing proposals and early mornings in compliance meetings.
If you're in a leadership position, most of your time is currently spent making sure everyone understands each other — not building the strategic architecture that would let your researchers, and the people who support them, actually thrive.
This course gives you what firefighting never does: bounded and protected time to build the architecture instead of just holding the line.
What you leave with is yours to keep: a strategy document for your institution, built by you, and ready to use on day 1.
BUILD YOUR RESEARCH ENTERPRISE TODAY
What would your research enterprise look like if it were designed, instead of accumulated one urgent fix at a time?
We call the answer the Integrated Research Enterprise and we built it using the same strategic frameworks that are used in complex organizations.
This course is not research administration or management.
We start far upstream and aim for transformative redesign of the research enterprise.
Who is this course for?
- Too tactical. The leaders who are already doing strategic work in theory, but whose actual calendars are consumed by tactical overload.
- Burnout. The leaders who are doing all the things all the time, coming home exhausted while ruefully preparing (as if for battle) each morning.
- Rinse and repeat. The leaders who want to disrupt the status quo through influence, evidence and early wins.
The Integrated Research Enterprise was created specifically to look beyond the daily traps to create an achievable vision of a successful enterprise.
What is covered in this course?
Why Now?
The research funding landscape isn't static, and the institutions that treat their research enterprise as a fixed cost center rather than a strategic asset are the ones that will feel that shift hardest. This course doesn't ask you to predict the future, instead it gives you a way to build an enterprise with resilient architecture, practical knowledge and skills, to proactively meet the future of research.
Learn How to Apply
Color Team Reviews to Your Context
At the end of this course, you will gain a repeatable internal color team review plan that can be implemented immediately for any proposal to any funder.
This means that every proposal will count.
Using a guided workbook and step-by-step instruction, you will learn how to use color team reviews to evaluate funding opportunities, draft compelling proposal text, and ensure institutional buy-in — transforming your proposal into an award.
The course provides video instruction followed by a downloaded workbook.
Leveraging 15 years of experience - applying industry proposal manager approaches - you will get the foundational knowledge and accessible tools to run color team reviews like a pro!
BUILD YOUR RESEARCH ENTERPRISE TODAY
Meet Your Instructors
Dr. Jessica Venable has spent over 25 years working at the national level, across universities of every kind — from direct proposal support to hiring the people who represent institutional interests in Washington, DC.
Dr. Faye Farmer has spent over 15 years inside the research enterprise, founding two research development offices from the ground up and consulting on the design of several more.
There is no other training like this.
We've seen the same failure modes repeat across enough institutions to know what actually predicts strategic success — and what doesn't.
What’s Inside the Integrated Research Enterprise?
This course is grounded in history and research, but not constrained by it.
Through engaging short videos, you will work your way through the creation of a strategy document that you can implement on day 1.
Academic Research
An examination of past and current trends in academic research, moving to horizon scanning to create informed and actionable insights on the design of research enterprises of the future.
Research Maturation Models
Using our exclusive methodology, you will complete an institutional assessment where your institution is at today, so that you can start to describe the desired state. You learn how to identify the levers of action to achieve research enterprise clarity.
Research Maturation Models
Using our exclusive methodology, you will complete an institutional assessment where your institution is at today, so that you can start to describe the desired state. You learn how to identify the levers of action to achieve research enterprise clarity.
Gold Team
We learn how to use the final review to garner institutional or leadership approval and smooth the way for award.
Gold Team
We learn how to use the final review to garner institutional or leadership approval and smooth the way for award.
Gold Team
We learn how to use the final review to garner institutional or leadership approval and smooth the way for award.