Our services
What we do.
Every engagement is different. We can assist at any single stage, or across the full journey.
Everyone talks about collaboration in health and life sciences, but making it happen is challenging.
Potential partners often have different priorities, cultures, incentives and ways of working, creating a gap between the intention to collaborate and making it work in practice.
Health Advance Connect exists to close that gap. We provide strategic execution of collaborative initiatives through a four-stage framework that mirrors how collaboration actually happens: from idea to commitment, launch, growth and measuring actual impact.
Our Services
Vision to commitment
We work alongside senior health, academic, government and industry leaders to transform an early-stage collaborative idea into a clearly defined initiative with shared purpose, strategic direction, and a practical roadmap that partner organisations can confidently commit to.
What we do
- Concept and vision development
- Stakeholder alignment and engagement
- Target operating model design
- Funding and financial model development
- Strategy and business case development
What we deliver.
- A concept or vision paper that clearly articulates the initiative and its purpose
- A strategy paper that defines direction, priorities and the path forward
- A business case ready to support funding applications or institutional approval
Commitment to launch.
We act as an independent, hands-on strategic execution partner, translating an approved initiative into coordinated action across every partner organisation. We build the roadmap, the governance and the coalition that makes commitment possible.
What we do
- Strategic execution of implementation projects
- Governance structure design
- Coalition building and partner identification
- Partnership negotiation and agreement support
What we deliver
- An implementation roadmap that gives partner organisations a shared, actionable plan
- Executed contracts and partnership agreements that formalise commitments across organisations
- A governance structure with decision-making processes ready to operate
- A performance and evaluation framework that defines what success looks like
Launch to perform.
We navigate the complexity of a live, multi-party initiative. We work on the difficult conversations and operational detail to identify the impediments to initiative success. We form recommendations and see them through to a well-governed and functioning initiative that gathers momentum.
What we do
- Assessment of current activation strategies
- Design of new activities to activate collaboration
- Optimisation of governance and operations
- Review and optimise incentives for participation
- Review and optimise communications and stakeholder engagement
What we deliver
- Engagement and activation plans and programs
- Partnership activation mechanisms and operational processes
- Communications and stakeholder engagement materials
Perform to impact.
We measure what collaboration has actually achieved – and turn that evidence into a clear view of where the initiative goes next.
What we do
- Evaluation objective setting
- Evaluation planning and conduct
- Collaboration effectiveness assessment
- Identification of insights, opportunities and risks
What we deliver
- Evaluation report
- Improvement and opportunity recommendations
- Stakeholder and governance reporting
Our Services
Shape
Vision to commitment
We work alongside senior health, academic, government and industry leaders to transform an early-stage collaborative idea into a clearly defined initiative with shared purpose, strategic direction, and a practical roadmap that partner organisations can confidently commit to.
What we do
- Concept and vision development
- Stakeholder alignment and engagement
- Target operating model design
- Funding and financial model development
- Strategy and business case development
What we deliver.
- A concept or vision paper that clearly articulates the initiative and its purpose
- A strategy paper that defines direction, priorities and the path forward
- A business case ready to support funding applications or institutional approval
Align
Commitment to launch.
We act as an independent, hands-on strategic execution partner, translating an approved initiative into coordinated action across every partner organisation. We build the roadmap, the governance and the coalition that makes commitment possible.
What we do
- Strategic execution of implementation projects
- Governance structure design
- Coalition building and partner identification
- Partnership negotiation and agreement support
What we deliver
- An implementation roadmap that gives partner organisations a shared, actionable plan
- Executed contracts and partnership agreements that formalise commitments across organisations
- A governance structure with decision-making processes ready to operate
- A performance and evaluation framework that defines what success looks like
Activate
Launch to perform.
We navigate the complexity of a live, multi-party initiative. We work on the difficult conversations and operational detail to identify the impediments to initiative success. We form recommendations and see them through to a well-governed and functioning initiative that gathers momentum.
What we do
- Assessment of current activation strategies
- Design of new activities to activate collaboration
- Optimisation of governance and operations
- Review and optimise incentives for participation
- Review and optimise communications and stakeholder engagement
What we deliver
- Engagement and activation plans and programs
- Partnership activation mechanisms and operational processes
- Communications and stakeholder engagement materials
Evaluate
Perform to impact.
We measure what collaboration has actually achieved – and turn that evidence into a clear view of where the initiative goes next.
What we do
- Evaluation objective setting
- Evaluation planning and conduct
- Collaboration effectiveness assessment
- Identification of insights, opportunities and risks
What we deliver
- Evaluation report
- Improvement and opportunity recommendations
- Stakeholder and governance reporting
Our approach
We pair senior, cross-sector experience with hands-on facilitation.
We bring senior-level experience across diverse organisations and stakeholder perspectives, with a broad skill set spanning strategy development, implementation and change management. We combine strategic advice with hands-on coordination, facilitation of difficult conversations and sustained implementation support to turn ideas into effective partnerships.
We operate as an independent, neutral partner across every organisation involved – trusted to navigate unclear accountability, competing priorities and differing organisational cultures. We’ll keep focus where it belongs: on building better health outcomes from Australian ingenuity.
Areas of Focus
Establishing collaboration across ecosystems and activating the people and infrastructure that bring health, research, industry, government and investment together in one place.
Designing the strategic plans, collaboration models, governance frameworks and agreements that allow organisations with different priorities to collaborate while guiding key stakeholders through the journey.
Uniting organisations across locations around a shared mission and establishing systems for coordinated and sustained collaboration at scale.
Meet our founder
Led by Dr. Neil Deacon.
Health Advance Connect is led by Dr. Neil Deacon, who brings hands-on experience that’s genuinely rare in this field.
- PhD, Imperial College London
- Global pharma strategy experience at PwC
- A proven track record establishing cross-sector health initiatives, including the Puerto Rico Consortium for Clinical Investigation
Resources
Our complimentary resources help you get an independent read on the current status of your partnership or collaboration.
Collaboration Maturity Assessment Tool.
Every multi-party initiative runs on the same five things: who’s leading it, why it exists, who’s accountable for what, how willing people are to work across organisational lines, and what it’s actually delivering.
The Collaboration Maturity Assessment Tool (CMAT) is a free online self-assessment that tells you which of those five is quietly holding your initiative back.
Innovation Ecosystem Assessment Tool.
Most innovation ecosystems don’t underperform for one single reason. They lose traction in one of five places: capability, stewardship, convergence, support, or reputation.
The Innovation Ecosystem Assessment Tool (IEAT) shows you which one, before it limits the growth of your precinct or initiative.
Contact
Get in touch.
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