Category: Spread and Adoption

Planning For Spread and Adoption From The Start: A Novel Model For Success

How to build motivation and energy to enable innovations and improvements to spread and be sustained is a long-standing challenge. […]

The Importance of Local Adaptation in Innovation Spread and Adoption

Often in healthcare we aim to make changes in a system such as adopting an innovation or a new way […]

Understanding and Working with Complexity

Healthcare is a complex adaptive system. This means it has multiple interacting elements which are dynamic and unpredictable. Having an […]

A winning partnership – System Convening combined with Programme Management improves patient experience.

A real-life example is a powerful way to explain a way of working. Anand Iyer (Programme Manager, Northern Care Alliance) […]

‘That’s what I do’ – voluntary partnerships, complexity and an activity named system convening

It is always rewarding to find that your work is meaningful and useful to people. I was delighted when Carrie […]

A winning combination: programme management with system convening to develop and spread the BASIC STEP tool in North West Ambulance Service (NWAS)

In Horizons, we talk about the need for both programme management and system convening skills (including enabling new types of […]

Complexity and System Convening – a lightbulb moment

Originally published by Ian Baines – 15th October 2020 Working to improve care frequently requires working with complexity. This increases […]

Why an ‘Enabling Leadership’ Style is Needed for Innovation, Spread and Adoption

‘Enabling leadership’ is very different from the normal order-driven operational leadership style. Enabling leadership requires a mindset shift such that […]

COVID-19 Crisis: Creating Adaptive Spaces and Enabling the Spread and Adoption of Innovation

“Lots of things that were seemingly impossible have now just happened” Mary Uhl-Bien recently joined Matthew Mezey and me for a virtual conversation to […]

COVID-19 – A Complexity Leadership Response

The current COVID-19 situation is an example of complexity – and an opportunity for reflection on how systems respond to […]

Moving to Action: Spreading and Scaling Change Session at Expo 2019

Ninety people in a room for 60 minutes, what magic can be created! On Wednesday, Helen Bevan (@helenbevan), Ian Baines […]

Adaptive Spaces, Networks…. and a Challenge Called Spread

In this 50th anniversary week of the lunar mission and walk, this blog focuses on a different type of space, […]