Research & Innovation Office
Increase NRF ratings, diversify research income, and optimise grants office processes
Strategic Services for Research & Innovation
Purpose-designed services to help your research office increase outputs, secure more funding, and operate more efficiently.
A fast, facilitated read on strengths and gaps across your research support environment — ideal before deeper diagnostics or funder-facing plans.
- Senior R&I leadership workshop
- Cross-cutting themes (capacity, systems, culture)
- Prioritised implications for the next 12–24 months
- Short executive brief
Structured view of policies, systems, staffing, and culture across the research value chain — so investment lands where it shifts outputs.
- Maturity lenses across pre-award, post-award, ethics, and researcher development
- Evidence from documents, interviews, and light process observation
- Gap themes ranked by impact and effort
- Roadmap hooks for NRF, income, and grants-office workstreams
Maps funder priorities and schemes against your institutional strengths — focusing applications, partnerships, and internal preparation.
- Priority funders and instruments for your profile
- Institutional readiness gaps vs competitive benchmarks
- Thematic opportunities aligned to faculties / centres
- Short action list for DVC R&I and grants leadership
Evidence-led plan to strengthen rating trajectories and research leadership visibility — without generic boilerplate.
- Baseline signals across cohorts and faculties
- Targeted interventions (development, mentoring, collaborations)
- Alignment with institutional research incentives
- Monitoring indicators executives can track
Portfolio approach across grants, contracts, industry, and philanthropy — with targets and sequencing your finance and research offices can stand behind.
- Income mix diagnostics and realistic stretch targets
- Faculty and central-office roles clarified
- Partnership and pipeline themes
- Implementation guardrails (risk, compliance, capacity)
Workflow, controls, and service-model design to shorten cycle times, reduce rework, and lift researcher satisfaction — without weakening compliance.
- End-to-end process mapping (internal and researcher-facing)
- Bottleneck and hand-off analysis
- SLA and routing recommendations
- Change plan for adoption with ICT and HR interfaces