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Operations Knit Together Tactics and Strategy
On this blog, Tom Bigda-Peyton has posted two thoughtful pieces about strategy and tactics. See Do Tactics Generate Strategy and Do Tactics Generate Strategy Part II. In today’s post, I’d like to...
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The Long March: The Right Stuff for a Health Model
This is the first of several posts on realizing the vision in a sustainable community health model by aiming at transition and transformation. Let’s start with some community basics. [Edit note: added...
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The Long March for Right Stuff in a Health Model—Part 2
In the first post in this “Right Stuff for Health” series, we looked together at the crisis of overhead in a medical delivery process aimed at non-systemic chronic and acute care. This high-cost...
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Will Nearby Towns Work with Us or Will They Decide to Eat Our Lunch?
Our theme this August is town planning and community engagement using collaborative whole system approaches. The first post explored a successful regional approach to health care planning. The second...
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Financial System Safety and Resilience Policy
Our aim at the CAS this October is to increase the diffusion and dissemination of whole-system wicked problem assessment and action across safety-reliability-resilience in varying settings. The first...
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Economic Systems We Can Eat
The Center for Adaptive Solutions will write about the topic of food during November, 2010. The topic is an opportunity to apply a whole-system approach to a Wicked Problem. The goal in whole-system...
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Letting the Chicken Cross the Road: Thoughtful Eating, One Meal at a Time
One of the universal aspects of all cultures is that we celebrate special occasions with feasts. As Lord Joanthan Sacks, the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, said recently, you can sum up everything you...
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Economic Ecology Makes or Breaks Financial Systems
For December, the Center for Adaptive Solutions will be offering several posts to explore alternatives to the “business as usual” economy. My post today grows from two comments made here and here on...
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A Good Day for a Quick Walk
Just taking five to savor and share the moment. Nothing earthshaking. It’s simply a beautiful day here in Western Massachusetts for a short walk. It’s time for a walk. Cool, clear, slight breeze,...
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It’s Fall – Time for Talking Turkey about Healthcare…
We need to talk about healthcare, the role of funding, the need for healthcare teams, and core infrastructure from workplace culture to technology. Parts of this post began as a comment in Employee...
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Regional Hospital Innovation Unbundled: A Real Change Declaration
This post first appeared here in a LinkedIn HIMSS group on the topic, “What will drive the next wave of healthcare innovations?” In that LinkedIn topic, the willingness to “envision possibility” is...
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