Introduction | Assumptions | Vision, mission, values and culture | Challenges |
Priorities | Competencies | Objectives

Strategic plan, 2005 - 2010

Strategic challenges

The key strategic challenges the MRC faces are:

• Human and other capacity (e.g. infrastructure and enabling technologies).
• Financial sustainability.
• Managing the relationship with NDOH, the MRC’s line department.
• Corporate governance.
• Communication, both internal and external.
• Transformation.
• Managing the politicisation of research.
• Research prioritisation.
• Research quality and output.
• Renewing research strategy and aligning structures and processes with it.
• Managing the growth in the organisation (strategic vs. donor-driven).
• Strategic management of intellectual property.
• Employment equity.