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On May 4–6, 2016, the Corporate Relations Team gathered at the Carmel Valley Ranch for the CR Team Blitz. The Blitz was an intensive, immersive effort to think wrong about our 3-year strategic plan.

Our objectives

Have fun

• Get out to be inspired by a fresh setting and our teammates.

Dream about what we can achieve

• Bring the Corporate Relations Team up to speed on the next 3-year plan.
• Engage the team to identify and align our shared aspirations.
• Imagine epic programs that might strengthen the Genentech brand.

Explore how we might best help

• Expand on why our strategic framework matters, how we might improve it, and what we might do to successfully complete its initiatives.
• Explore how we might work together to accelerate how quickly we achieve our desired impact.
• Identify the big questions raised by our 3-year strategy and how we might best answer those.

Prioritize and simplify

• Imagine how we might align our day-to-day work with our impact vision, 3-year strategy, and strategic framework.
• Identify what work we must do—and what work we might no longer do.

Grow and develop

• Invest in our leadership skills and team.

Desired outcomes

• Shared aspirations.
• An enhanced Corporate Relations vision, strategy, strategic framework, and 3-year plan.
• A prioritized portfolio of ideas for our next epic programs, projects, and how we might operate at a higher level that we can test and fine tune.
• A prioritized set of big questions that we might explore to improve our impact and how we work.
• Insight into what we must do—and what we might stop doing. 
• New leadership skills.
• Enthusiasm and excitement about the next three years.