ON eNews
November 2020
Demands Are Never Final, They Just Evolve Welcome to the November 2020 edition of the One Nucleus eNews. I hope you are remaining well and productive through this prolonged and constantly changing dynamic that creates new demands on everyone’s strategies, resources and time. Even as I write this introduction, I am conscious you taking the time to read it is creating in itself a demand on your time, so I shall endeavour to ensure it provides you with useful information and updates to make it rewarding as you navigate through. Seeking New Deals & Innovations: Asking many of our network about what demanded their time and resource before Covid-19 would often receive a reply that it was the time, cost and energy levels of seeking their next investment or partnering deal. It has been remarkable to see the strength and resilience of our sector with record levels of investment secured and hugely exciting deals such as those announced by Inivata and Horizon. We continue to profile and connect our members to facilitate deal flow. New Tools and Supply Chain Resilience: R&D is a demanding beast and requires lab reagent and equipment suppliers to continue being innovative in the research tools they develop. Releases of new lab products recently have included those reported by AMSBIO and BoIVT. Ensuring you plan for potential supply change disruptions has intense relevance and demands consideration at present as the January 1st Brexit deadline approaches. To this end, it was extremely helpful to have the Office for Life Sciences and Thermo Fisher present to our members on how to prepare in order to remain resilient. If you missed the online session you can access the recording of the webinar via our on-demand content page. Making Your Next Contact: The move to online events has revealed several benefits and disadvantages as discussed in previous issues. One challenge that has demanded attention has been the loss of face-toface networking. The digital 1-2-1 partnering meetings have functioned well. That said, we repeatedly hear from all parts of the sector, especially those providing services and consultancy that networking events were key. We continue to evolve our approach to address this as you may have seen. It was a pleasure to host the ‘My question is …’ Networking Lunch last week and the collaborative event this week with our friends in New Jersey. Utilising the Zoom breakout rooms in a manner to enable groups to move beyond the self-help dynamic of ‘I’m xxx and I have this problem’ to a focussed discussion topic where they can get to build rapport and potential follow up. Do check out the blog from the networking lunch. If you have a burning question you’d like to submit for our next one on 30th November do email it to alicia@ onenucleus.com for consideration. We know many of our members leverage the networking heavily in normal times to generate relationships and business pipelines, so we welcome your engagement in these online formats.
