New Game-Plan - Clients

New Game-Plan: Clients

Services

About Us

Our clients:

We work principally with leading global companies, public bodies and cross-sector groups
We support collaboration between all sectors - public, private, and voluntary
Recent clients include Knowledge Transfer Networks, Trade Associations, Consumer product and Bioscience companies, and Public bodies involved in innovation and/or the food chain.

The table below summarises our recent assignments. Case-studies and published reports, supporting many of these, can be downloaded from the 'case-studies' or 'downloads' pages. We are happy to provide further information on our work wherever possible, subject, as necessary, to commercial confidentiality constraints.

Public bodies	Strat-egy	Innov-ation	Stake-holders	Net-working	Road-mapping	Brain-Pool	Services provided by New Game-Plan
Big Lottery Fund (BIG)	●		●		●	●	Analysing and reporting the outputs of nine Regional Workshops to consult stakeholders in England on the Fund's proposals for a new strategy and funding priorities.
Department for Business Innovation & Skills (BIS) with the Trade Association Forum	●		●			●	Developing a set of good practices to ensure better dialogue, consultation and policy development between Government bodies and Trade Associations.
London School of Economics and Economic & Social Research Council Innogen Centre	●		●	●		●	Using three deliberative stakeholder Workshops to identify risks and evaluate civil contingency plans for responding to Pandemic Influenza in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Yorkshire Forward (Regional Development Agency)		●		●			Developing a toolkit to support an Innovation Advisory Service.
UK Trade and Investment (DTI)	●		●	●		●	Consulting Trade Associations on proposals for changes in UKTI funding, organisation, and operations, and their implications.
Meat and Livestock Commission (MLC)	●	●	●	●	●	●	Developing a collaborative programme of strategic research through to 2020 for the three GB devolved red meat industry bodies.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) Sustainable Farming and Food Research Priorities Group	●	●	●	●	●	●	Working with 200 stakeholders from 125 UK organisations to identify strategic research priorities to tackle the changing requirements of farming and food and guide the allocation of research funding.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)			●			●	Engaging members of the public in a debate about future priorities to meet changing demands on farming, food and the countryside to help guide policy development by Defra.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)			●	●			Providing consultation workshops to guide the preparation of new policy and regulations covering Genetically-Modified crop coexistence.
Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department (SEERAD)			●	●			Providing consultation workshops to guide the preparation of new policy and regulations covering Genetically-Modified crop coexistence.
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)				●			Designing and delivering Networking training for entrepreneurs and scientists in London Universities, to help commercialise innovations.
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)	●					●	Defining and establishing new structures and processes for managing portfolios, programmes and resources for the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and for NERC Headquarters.
Networks	Strat-egy	Innov-ation	Stake-holders	Net-working	Road-mapping	Brain-Pool	Services provided by New Game-Plan
Company Chemists' Association (CCA)	●	●	●		●	●	Developing a Roadmap for the Transformation of UK Pharmacy. Included systematic design of new services with implementation plans.
Scottish Stem Cell Network (SSCN) (Scottish Enterprise and EU)	●	●	●	●	●	●	Developing a Roadmap for the Scottish Regenerative Medicine Industry with stakeholders. Included developing a tool for realising new therapies.
Aquagenome (Genesis Faraday Partnership) (DIUS)	●	●	●	●	●	●	Working with stakeholders from across Europe to develop an industry-led Roadmap to strengthen European Aquaculture by applying genetics and genomics.
Digital Systems Knowledge Transfer Network (Scalable/Grid Computing)	●	●	●	●	●	●	Developing a Roadmap for Next Information Infrastructure by collaboratively working on drivers, innovations, promoters and outcomes.
Food Strategy Implementation Partnership (DARD, Invest NI)	●	●	●	●	●	●	Consulting stakeholders on visions for the Northern Ireland Agri-Food sector and collaboratively developing innovation programmes.
Biosciences Knowledge Transfer Network (Genesis)	●	●	●	●	●	●	Developing a Roadmap to improve livestock breeding and animal health through genetics and genomics, and kick-starting collaboration.
Chemistry Innovation Knowledge Transfer Network (IMPACT)	●	●	●	●	●	●	Enabling stakeholders to share knowledge, build networks, and develop a Technology Roadmap for colloid science, in response to key drivers.
Chemistry Innovation Knowledge Transfer Network (Insight)	●	●	●	●	●	●	Developing a collaborative Technology Roadmap and priorities for the use of High Throughput Technologies in products and processes.
Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU)	●		●				Providing a Workshop for the Board to explore future scenarios and their implications for the Union in representing the interests of farmers.
Strategic Planning Society	●			●			Providing training workshops for senior industry strategists on the Networking mindset and skills and their application in developing strategy.
Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM)			●	●			Providing a key-note presentation to a national conference for environmental professionals on ‘Participation and the Environment’
Private companies	Strat-egy	Innov-ation	Stake-holders	Net-working	Road-mapping	Brain-Pool	Services provided by New Game-Plan
Global Biosciences company	●	●	●	●	●	●	Developing a series of collaborative Networks for research and technology foresight, with Networking training.
Global Biosciences company	●	●	●	●	●	●	Working collaboratively with internal business stakeholders to develop a new Company Code of Conduct.
Global Biosciences company	●		●	●			Developing a Network-based model for a new organisational design, and facilitating stakeholder mapping and engagement using tools.
Global Biosciences company	●	●					Developing a programme for Mastering Risk in new product development, and embedding this through risk management training.
Global Biosciences company	●	●		●	●	●	Providing a Workshop for site managers to define concepts, capabilities and tools for 'Lean Manufacture', and Roadmaps to implement it.
Global Biosciences company	●		●	●			Developing strategies for stakeholder engagement on the challenges surrounding environmental stewardship for key crops.
Global Biosciences company	●			●			Providing training and advice to develop Networks and the Networking ‘mindset’ and skills - to realise the company’s goals following merger.
Global Biosciences company				●			Providing training workshops in ‘Networking for Career Change’ as part of a wider change strategy.
Global Biosciences company	●			●			Providing training workshops for Senior Scientists in Networks and Networking.
Global Biosciences company	●					●	Identifying and assessing ‘lessons learned’ from past product development projects, and developing action plans to embed good practice for the future.
Global Consumer products company	●	●				●	Developing and prioritising product concepts for new products based on novel technologies.
Global Pharmaceuticals company			●	●			Providing training to develop effective networking to improve productivity in science and technology.
Global Pharmaceuticals company	●			●			Providing workshops to develop functional excellence in IT at the IT/Business interface using Networking models and tools.
International food exporter	●						Developing a company strategy for a leading Kenyan-based exporter to the UK of tropical vegetables and flowers.