Build impactful consortium projects
Consortium projects that have a real impact don't function like most projects.
A consortium project is impactful when it has an elegant strategy implemented through semi-autonomous, adaptive iterations.
Impactful consortium projects are highly interactive. All the problems that arise are fielded by the entire project.
Impactful consortium projects inspire. They inspire with their attendant vision and their ability to make progress.
Impactful consortium projects involve stakeholders as partners. If anything stakeholders help to keep a consortium project on track.
Impactful consortium projects are made up of tiny projects enabled by a psychologically safe environment. It’s not the quality of the plan you make at the outset that determines success. Its an experimental mindset that allows for adaptive implementation.
Impactful consortium projects build assets that help resolve innovation bottlenecks. That vexing lack of consensus, or resistance to new approaches can be overcome with enough people working together to show what is possible.
Impactful consortium projects are the best source of more impactful consortium projects. Consortium projects have a way of revealing more opportunities because consortium projects create the assets that make pursuing those opportunities possible.
Impactful consortium projects are most impactful when they are sustained. The standard definition of a consortium project states that they are a limited time collaboration. Once you build trust and assets in a big project your rate of achievement goes exponential. Why would you stop?
Most importantly, we need impactful consortium projects if we want to reach the full potential of advances of research and technology. For how long have we been talking about personalised medicine? Digital health?
Knowledge and technology are not the limiting factors. Our inability to align and work together are.
What’s your experience with consortium projects that actually moved the needle? I’m curious what made them work—or what held them back.