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Children’s Cancer Institute (CCI) in Sydney, Australia ‘exists solely to put an end to childhood cancer’ under the guiding principal “It’s not if. It’s when”. The incredibly talented and passionate staff at CCI work tirelessly to make this vision a reality; they believe every child can be saved and work tirelessly with a focus on the patient. To increase collaboration between clinicians and researchers, CCI is currently undergoing a major organisational transformation; moving to a Comprehensive Childhood Cancer Centre (CCCC) which would mean a change of location, organisational structure, and way of working for the institute.
As part of our 1% Pledge, we worked with the CCI leadership team to help them devise a strategy for the future by, ensuring efficient allocation of resources and funding to enable the talented staff at CCI to focus on their patients in a clinical environment and continue to undertake world-class research, bringing them closer to curing cancer for children.
Venturetec worked closely with the executive team and staff across the organisation, giving them a platform to voice concerns, their vision, and where they see the biggest opportunities to be. With so many talented, and dedicated researchers in the organisation, this allowed us to deeply understand the organisation, and showcase ideas and passionate voices which may otherwise not have had a platform.
“[The diagnostic’s] findings reconfirmed a number of insights (or suspicions) we had about ourselves, our challenges, gaps and general organisational characteristics, but reinforced them in a way that fostered more constructive discussion about how to address them, including the recommendations from Venturetec…It also highlighted risks and opportunities that we hadn’t considered, or had given cursory attention to.” – Mark Bizeray, Head of Business Transformation at CCI
Through our diagnostic process we engaged with staff across the institute, with representation from all teams and levels of seniority. The resulting learnings and insights were presented back to the organisation along with a series of recommendations. Venturetec is now continuing to work with CCI to guide them through the process of implementing these recommendations, paving the way for CCI as they transition towards the Comprehensive Childhood Cancer Centre in the following years and allowing them to continue innovating and creating life-saving treatments for children with cancer.
“The recommendations translated a way forward into actionable work packages across a range of functional/strategic opportunities. The focus of the recommendations was on small quick wins, with an eye to longer term change/goals. This suited us at the present time, as a full program of changes across all recommendations would have been overwhelming for an already busy organisation.” – Mark Bizeray, Head of Business Transformation at CCI
The opportunity to work with CCI not only assisted them to do boost their internal innovation culture and capability, but uplifted our internal culture at Venturetec as well with collaboration across the whole team, and we are looking forward to our next 1% pledge project and continuing to work with CCI long into the future.
– Trey Zagante, Managing Partner at Venturetec
