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How to lead and manage Better Care implementation

by Leadership Centre | 2015

Practical guide to help members of health and wellbeing boards involved in the UK Department of Health’s Better Care Fund projects. Contains sections on systems leadership and effecting wide-scale cultural change in healthcare organisations

Keywords:
Cultural change, Health care, Service integration, Wicked issues
Resource type:
Case studies, Tools and guidance
Formats:
Downloadable documents

Systems thinking as a leadership practice

by Alex Braddell | 2015

Blog describing the Iceberg Model, a structured way of observing and understanding  systems and thinking through complex problems

Keywords:
Complexity, Leadership development, Systems theory
Resource type:
Tools and guidance
Formats:
Online articles

Vanguard method – theory and practice

by Alex Braddell | 2015

Resources on the theory and practice of the Vanguard Method, an approach devised by John Seddon that aims to enable managers to study their organisation as a system and, on the basis of the knowledge gained, re-design their services to improve performance and drive out costs.

Keywords:
Intervention theory, Systems theory
Resource type:
Tools and guidance
Formats:
Online multimedia

Donella Meadows Institute

by Alex Braddell | 2015

Mini-directory of useful concepts, frameworks and tools from the Donella Meadows Institute (mission: ‘to bring economic, social and environmental systems into closer harmony with the realities of a finite planet and a globally powerful human race by using the disciplines of systems thinking, system dynamics, and collaborative learning’)

Keywords:
Systems theory
Resource type:
Tools and guidance
Formats:
Resource centres

Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System

by Alex Braddell | 2015

Article by Dr. Donella H. Meadows (influential systems thinker and principal author of The Limits to Growth 1972) about how systems work and how we can manipulate them to create the most change: ‘leverage points [are] places within a complex system (a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, an ecosystem) where a small shift in […]

Keywords:
Systems theory
Resource type:
Tools and guidance
Formats:
Online articles