Novel Pathways to R&D Productivity

In this webinar, Joe Renny (CatSci) and Ray Collis (Growth Pitstop) explore a novel but effective way to boost R&D productivity. The result is a protocol to capture a 3%, 5% or more improvement in the people related aspects of R&D Productivity—no extra budget or new tech required.

Industry Mood & Outlook

Science and technology are at an all-time high in capability, yet global events have created a “triple-dip” of investor uncertainty.
Leaders are anxious but focusing on factors within their control.

Nine Rights Framework

Right People in Right Roles: Success hinges on people doing the right work, even when roles overlap and conflict arises.
Right Work at Right Time: Teams must collaborate in tandem across R&D and regulatory phases, rather than handing tasks off sequentially.
Right Way to Work Together: High performance comes from managed conflict—strong personalities aligned around a common goal.
Right Resources: Leverage minimal viable resources and external partners effectively; avoid unnecessary meetings (“no more people than can share one pizza”).
Right Rewards: Intrinsic motivators like purpose and proximity to innovation often outweigh purely financial incentives.
Right Results: Clear ownership and alignment of individual goals to organizational objectives ensure focus on outcomes.
Right Governance & Agility: Use agile “swarm” teams around key decision points to enable rapid “fail-fast” calls and save significant costs.
Right Place: Hybrid and virtual team models need strong governance and live dashboards to cut bureaucracy.
Right Timing: Empower teams to make timely stop-go decisions, making it as easy to halt a project as to advance it.

R&D-P Benchmarking & “Expensive Asset Paradox”

People-related productivity averages only 65 %, highlighting a 35 % improvement opportunity.
Despite this, many leaders neglect team productivity even though they would quickly fix comparable issues in other “assets.”

Call to Action