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Introduction
The following strategy report is based on the National Institutes of Health (NIH). As the United States’ biomedical research agency, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been the driving force behind many decades of advances that have improved health of people in every corner of America and the world. The vast majority of NIH’s funds go to support scientists at universities, research institutions, and small businesses in all 50 states, with their many discoveries serving to fuel the U.S. biomedical industry and keep our Nation globally competitive. The report will address NIH’s business model, the vision and mission statement, objective evidence and is it helping NIH gain a sustainable competitive advantage. Finally, using the Three Tests of a Winning Strategy, is NIH’s vision, mission, and objectives support its strategy?
NIH Business Model
In order to advance its mission and fulfill a request from Congress, NIH developed the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan, Fiscal Years 2016-2020: Turning Discovery Into Health. This plan outlines a vision for biomedical research to capitalize on new opportunities for scientific exploration and address new challenges for human health. Developed with input from hundreds of stakeholders and scientific advisers, and in collaboration with leadership and staff of NIH’s Institutes, Centers, and Offices, the plan is designed to complement the ICOs’ individual strategic plans, which are aligned with their congressionally mandated missions.
NIH’s Vision and Mission Statement
NIH’s mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability.
The goals of the agency are:
· to foster fundamental creative discoveries, innovative research strategies, and their applications as a basis for ultimately protecting and improving health;
· to develop, maintain, and renew scientific human and physical resources that will ensure the Nation's capability to prevent disease;
· to expand the knowledge base in medical and associated sciences in order to enhance the Nation's economic well-being and ensure a continued high return on the public investment in research; and
· to exemplify and promote the highest level of scientific integrity, public accountability, and social responsibility in the conduct of science.
NIH’s Objective Evidence
To establish a framework for carrying out its mission and optimize return on public investment, NIH’s strategy will focus on four essential, interdependent objectives. These objectives are: advance opportunities in biomedical research, foster innovation by setting NIH priorities, enhance scientific stewardship, and excel as a federal science agency by managing for results.
Objective 1: Advance Opportunities in Biomedical Research
Over the next 5 years, NIH will capitalize upon a broad range of cross-cutting opportunities to
move biomedical research forward in three highly important, interdependent areas:
exploration of fundamental science, discovery of treatments and cures, and advancement of
health promotion and disease prevention.
Objective 2: Foster Innovation by Setting NIH Priorities
In order for NIH to achieve its mission, it must serve as an effective and efficient steward of
public resources. To advance these efforts over the next 5 years, NIH will focus intensely on
prioritization.
Objective 3: Enhance Scientific Stewardship
To achieve its mission and maintain its role as the world’s premier biomedical research agency,
NIH must support the best scientific ideas and brightest scientific minds while, at the same
time, earning and maintaining public trust.
Objective 4: Excel as a Federal Science Agency by Managing for Results
As a public science agency, NIH is obligated to use transparent, scientific approaches in its
decision making.
Is the objective evidence helping NIH gain a sustainable competitive advantage?
Despite the risks associated with making short-term predictions, it behooves NIH to lay out ambitious outcome objectives for the next 5 years. Below are just a few of the outcomes that NIH will strive to deliver for the benefit of the American people and all humankind. This list of potential advances should be taken as “stretch goals” that can only be achieved by stable funding support and intense scientific effort. These are definitely aspirational goals, rather than guaranteed outcomes. This list also is not exhaustive; it is entirely possible that the greatest research achievements by 2020 will come from directions no one can currently anticipate. Finally, it is likely not all of these goals will be attained by 2020, but they are offered in hope that this kind of bold visioning can inspire the rapidly moving field of biomedical research to aim even higher.
Does NIH’s vision, mission, and objectives support it strategy?
The recently released NIH-Wide Strategic Plan (Fiscal Years 2016-2020) describes the Agency’s dedication to planning and priority setting in order to serve as a responsible steward of the public funds with which it is entrusted. The emphasis on stewardship is intertwined throughout this budget request, articulating how NIH strives to manage our resources and cultivate our role as a leader in biomedical research and policy across the country and around the world. Prudent resource management also is reflected in the Agency’s priority setting process. Through a deliberative balance of supporting highly meritorious research while addressing public health needs, NIH remains poised to take advantage of emerging scientific opportunities, including the unique opportunities presented by rare diseases. These processes afford the flexibility to respond urgently to public health crises, and to fund exceptionally innovative, investigator-initiated ideas.
Conclusion
1. Defining Strategic Management and Strategy
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3. NIH: National Institutes of Health (July 27, 2017). What we do. Mission and Goals. Retrieved from https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/what-we-do/mission-goals
4. Vision, Mission, and Goals
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