Download Program Strengths - USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center

Program’s Strengths/Competence
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Skills
Experiences
Assets
Process and technologies
Exercise #1
Program Core Competence Map
My program has the abilities to
…in environments such as
…by
…thereby delivering the benefit of
…to
Strategic Assets
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What we “own”
Infrastructure (e.g., clinical trials)
Distribution networks (LA County – accrual)
IP
Our Program’s Strategic
Assets include:
How have we used these
assets in the past to create
research opportunities for the
Cancer Center?
How might these assets
increase in value?
Analyzing Core Processes
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What are your program’s core research activities that helps research input into discoveries or translate them?
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How do they create value for the cancer research field?
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How do they differentiate us from our competition and other Cancer Centers?
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Are the program’s research activities effective, efficient and adaptive?
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Is our business process performance improving or declining?
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Have we ever used our core processes to radically innovate?
Understanding our Program Center’s Value Web
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Schools, departments
Hospitals
Relationships with other programs
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Who are our key vertical relationships (suppliers/retailers)?
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Who are our key horizontal relationships (programs)?
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Have any of the value-web boundaries changed in the past? Why?
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Is there a “point of maximum influence” in the web of relationships (i.e., control of an important benefit or access point)?
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Where are the weak links in the web?
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How have we used our value web to racially innovate?
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