Research and innovation for
new healthcare interventions

IfM Engage provides consultancy services to help people and organisations across the healthcare ecosystem, including funders, university researchers and R&D leaders, to achieve their research and innovation goals.

Challenges we help to address

• Developing an ecosystem-wide vision and strategy for the early detection of a complex condition, such as cancer.

• Research planning, especially for complex multi-stakeholder, multidisciplinary research projects.

• Alignment of the innovation portfolio with business priorities.

• Idea generation, evaluation and selection for healthcare innovations.

• Through-life service design for healthcare medical devices.

• Healthcare intervention design, integrating clinical, technological, service and business model aspects.

CASE STUDY: Accelerating Innovation in Healthcare

IfM Engage supported the charity YPMH (The Foundation for Young People’s Mental Health) using Roadmapping and related Strategic Technology and Innovation Management (STIM) methods.

The project impact included:

• facilitated multidisciplinary conversations with experts across the mental health ecosystem enabled YPMH to gain a deeper understanding of the key contexts and challenges in providing support to young people with chronic physical conditions.

• a clear direction for YPMH and plan to engage with charities to improve the support available in this area.