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Survey Poster exploring opportunities, constraints and shaping solutions

Shape a service that benefits YOU

At Net+U, we’re at the start of something new. We have deep experience in life sciences operations, design and delivery, but we’re not here to tell you what you need. We’re here to ask.

We’ve been part of site leadership teams, shaped facility and process designs, run global supply chains and delivered major capital projects. We’ve led improvements that made a real difference. We’ve also felt the weight of trying to do too much, without quite enough of the right kind of support.

We believe there is now a unique opportunity, driven by changing expectations, technologies and ways of working, to reimagine how professionals get the help they need to make meaningful progress in their roles, careers and projects.

We see the chance to:

  • Empower ambitious people on site and in functions to have greater impact

  • Create pathways for talented independent contributors, experts and academics to support that success

  • Help companies and sites become more responsive, reconfigurable and sustainably successful

Below are three very short questions.


They are designed to test our assumptions, begin to uncover what really matters, and explore where targeted external or independent support could help most - in ways that are relevant, valued and effective.

We would be very grateful for your insight.

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Anc1on1Support
AncTimeSpent
AncConfidenceApproach

How is your time really spent?

First we just want to understand what you see your as the focus of your role ...

What is the main focus of your current role?
Operational performance - output, OTIF, compliance
Delivery of new or improved capability or capacity
A combination of operational performance and new or improved capability

If >75% of your effort or your annual appraisal relates to 1st/2nd option please select from these - otherwise select "A combination".

Now we'd ask that you provide (rough) estimates by consuming category of how you spent your time ...

If not needed, enter 0

How confident are you in your current approach?

As each question is collected separately, we kindly ask that you indicate the focus of your role again here so we can understand responses by category.

What is the main focus of your current role?
Operational performance - output, OTIF, compliance
Delivery of new or improved capability or capacity
A combination of operational performance and new or improved capability

If >75% of your effort or your annual appraisal relates to 1st/2nd option please select from these - otherwise select "A combination".

How confident are you that your current systems, processes, and next project or change initiative are close to best in class practice?
Very confident - we benchmark actively inside and outside the company
Fairly confident - I rely on internal company expertise
Not always confident - I am not always sure what others with similar challenges have achieved
I do not focus on what others have or have not done

Where could one to one support help (you or someone that reports to you) most?

Our thesis is that company and individual performance could both be significantly improved if people had an effective way to access and engage motivated external people with relevant experience and expertise. We are testing where it would be best to start.

What is the main focus of your current role?
Operational performance - output, OTIF, compliance
Delivery of new or improved capability or capacity
A combination of operational performance and new or improved capability
Individual career coaching by someone who has already faced the career challenges and choices you now face?
Yes - this could be valuable
No - not a priority for me
Individual project execution mentoring, challenging and prompting by someone with current experience and prior success in the area or areas of project focus?
Yes - this could be valuable
No - not a priority for me
Advice and perspectives on current operational and or project approaches from someone informed by practice and by research in best practice and emerging techniques or technology?
Yes - this could be valuable
No - not a priority for me

If you’ve answered all or any of the questions above, you’ve already helped us hugely.
We pulled those questions from a larger survey that we loved, but it proved too long and complicated for most site visitors, so we changed our approach. One other aspect of that original survey that we particularly liked – and that worked well – was an importance–performance section where we asked respondents to rate how important eight themes were and how well each was currently supported. The basic idea is that if a theme is considered very important but current performance or support is weak, there is opportunity.

We have removed all the other parts of that original survey and kept just those eight “a & b” questions, where you pick a number between 1 and 5 for each. If you have another two or three minutes, you might find this short gap-analysis survey interesting. It is built on the Tally platform.

 

 

 

 

Exploration #1

NetPlusU logo representing pharma career consulting

This initial exploration is for people in industry who are driving, or hoping to drive, improvement and change in capability or effectiveness, and for the managers who support and enable them.

MORE TO FOLLOW

Our next initiative

While our initial focus has been on ambitious, change-driving professionals within companies, we are also preparing to explore how independent, skilled professionals might offer their services in ways that deliver real value.

We expect to launch a second set of short questions on this theme soon, and may also run follow-up queries to clarify or deepen insights from the change-driving professionals we have engaged initially.

In exploring this second theme, we hope to gain insight into:

  • How quality can be assured

  • How pricing structures might support and engage a client network

  • How individuals expect to be rewarded, especially when they contribute to early-stage market development and hope to share in longer-term success

If you have thoughts on any of these themes, or related ideas, we would love to hear from you.

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