Tuttlingen – The vision process initiated by MedicalMountains GmbH for medical technology in the southwest has been completed. For two years, ideas were collected, trends analysed, visions of the future outlined, guiding principles drafted, recommendations for action specified: the implementation phase begins with the presentation of the results on February 28th.
MedicalMountains Managing Director Yvonne Glienke also has to get used to it. The vision process is over. At least formally. "We started with the kick-off in February 2021 and concluded with the last workshop on recommendations for action last December," explains Yvonne Glienke the timeline. "Everything that follows is therefore, strictly speaking, no longer part of the vision process, but is a result of it." But: The term itself will remain in the longer term. Two reasons are crucial.
On the one hand, no other project has been pursued so intensively and in such close cooperation with the industry. The sober numbers: 22 initial expert interviews, three hybrid events, six online workshops, two vision arenas and six face-to-face workshops. The emotional level: "The vision process has really grown on us," says Yvonne Glienke. “Us”, that also includes many of the around 500 participants. Again and again feedback came, how much you value the exchange, the trusting cooperation. "A very special spirit emerged, pulling together for the industry and for the patients." A visible expression of this is the joint vision statement: “Medical Mountains. Taking Health to a new level – Everywhere for Everybody!”
On the other hand: The end is a transition. From the vision process, the foundation was created on which we are now building. The results are the recommendations for action developed for the medical technology industry. They will be presented at an online event on February 28th. "Doctors and users", "visibility" and "cooperation and values" are future fields of activity, as are "market/competence field analyses" and "sustainability". Yvonne Glienke and her team explain the individual concepts and projects behind it. "We are now on the threshold of implementation," she emphasizes. “It is all the more important to take the players with you and get them enthusiastic about the ideas. Even those who have had little to do with it so far.” Every company has the opportunity to find out about the points worked out and to compare them with the individual circumstances - as a "future check", so to speak, which projects absolutely belong on their own roadmap.
According to Yvonne Glienke, transparency and dialogue continue to be essential elements in order to broaden the basis and to deepen topics in a targeted manner - in order to ultimately come closer to the actual goal that was formulated at the very beginning of the vision process: to let a "North Star" shine, which provides orientation for a future-proof, cooperative, value-based medical technology in south-west Germany.
The online event to present the results will start on February 28 at 4:00 p.m. Registration via this link. Participation is free of charge.
