Innovation Leadership: Creating the Landscape of Healthcare

Innovation Leadership: Creating the Landscape of Healthcare

Article Type: Recent publications From: Leadership in Health Services, Volume 22, Issue 4

Tim Porter-O’Grady and Kathy Malloch,Jones and Bartlett,ISBN: 978 0763765439,2009,

Keywords: Leadership processes, Leadership skills,Leadership development

Innovation Leadership: Creating the Landscape of Healthcare focuses on the unique skills related to leading the innovation process in healthcare. The text relates leadership skills and attributes necessary to guide organizations and people through the process of innovation in a way that ensures successful innovation outcomes. This contributed text provides a variety of viewpoints on leadership in light of the various formats and tool-sets necessary to assure successful innovation.

Contents include:

• The Case for Leadership in Innovation.

• Creating the Organizational Context for Innovation.

• Innovation Process Techniques.

• Directed Creativity: How to Generate New Ideas for Transforming Healthcare.

• The Multidisciplinary Innovation Laboratory.

• Launch Pad: Creating the Business Case for Innovation.

• Evidence-Based Innovation.

• Combining Diffusion of Innovation, Complex Adaptive Health Care Organizations, Whole Systems Shared Governance: 21st Century Alchemy.

• Innovation Thinking and Health Care Design.

• Innovation and Intuition: Creating the Innovative Leader.