Strategic Process towards Sustainability and an Advanced Management Model at ESS Bilbao Strategic planning is the key to aligning all the elements of an organization to achieve the objectives set and thus obtain the best results for both the organization and the people who make it up. ESS BILBAO has begun a process of strategic reflec tion aimed at establishing the operating objectives and the master lines of the way forward in the medium and long-term for the sustainability of the organization. “This process will help us on the road ahead until 2025. At the moment we are already delivering a large part of our contribution to the European Spallation Source (ESS ERIC) very successfully. Most of the components of the accelerator have already been delivered, such as the MEBT or the RF system, and the target work packages that are expected to be completed in one or two years have also begun to be delivered, leaving only Miracles until 2025. It was therefore the moment to stop and think,where dowe FIAMMA GARCÍA-TORIELLO, want to go? Where do we want to be in 2025?“, explains Head of Management Office Fiamma Garcia-Toriello, head of the ESS Bilbao Mana gement office and in charge of leading the strategic process. “We have an acquired know-how that should not be lost, we are a young organization that is delivering very complex components to the ESS at the cutting edge of science technology valued at about €50M. We have positioned “We have reviewed the Vision of the ourselves as an organization capable of efficiently and successfully managing in-kind scientific projects and thisorganization and we have outlined our gives us an added value that it would not make sense to lose. For all this we must chart our way to move forward asgoals, considering our stakeholders, the an organization beyond 2025. market, and the social and economical It is clear for us that there are many national and interna-environment. Those vision goals are our tional scientific projects in which we can participate and collaborate, and we are demonstrating that we are com- arrival horizon: How we want to be and petitive and complementary when working with other in- ternational centres andwith Basque and Spanish indus- where we want to be in 2025” try“, says Ms G-Toriello. 14