Change Management and OD in the NHS
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Favourite Websites | |
Hundreds of change theories and models explained, succintly | |
Community of creative leaders who share a common passion for bringing information and ideas to life visually | |
Open community where anyone can publish scenarios, reflect on planning processes and share online resources | |
Network of futurists | |
Archive of over 100 articles summarising theories and approaches re: management tools and techniques (e.g. Re-engineering, Project Management, Continuous Improvement) | |
Where NHS patients leave feedback about their experiences | |
How to change how people think, feel and act | |
Tools and resources about change management, team effectiveness etc from MIT's HR Group. | |
Excellent Skills for an Excellent Career | |
Includes comprehensive links to other leadership sites. | |
Leading US site for promoting 'consumer involved' decision making in healthcare | |
Comprehensive site, dedicated to promoting Future Serach methodology | |
Authoritative USA-based service improvement site | |
Popular site for popularlising dialogue. Lots of information and resources | |
Great resources about how to run effective Open Space events | |
Harvard Business Review article that suggests you should move from listening to customers to giving them tools to create their own products. | |
Design and administer online surveys. Subscription based, but only about £200 per year | |
Advances research and practice related to Emotional Intelligence | |
Ranked by the Financial Times as one of the top 10 leadership development centres in the world. | |
Lots of practical exercises for helping with changing oneself, teams and larger systems | |
Articles and advice on facilitating and running meetings | |
Comprehensive, academic leaning site from the main OD Network in the States. | |
Management and leadership articles, interviews and case studies from Emerald Publishing | |
A great list of icebreaker exercises for facilitators | |
US based membership association. Costs $125 pa to join but some good info available free as well | |
Comprehensive site, fulll of free learning and development resources | |
Portal for lots of AI sites. Access to lots of AI tools resources and stories about positive change. | |
US change management consultancy with a great list of free to download articles | |
The consulting site from the guy who 'invented' Real Time Strategic Change methodology. | |
Edward De Bono’s site. Lot’s of great articles plus a good blog. Navigation is a bit of a nightmare! | |
Dr Roger Greenaway’s site. Lot’s of free articles. | |
New market/liberal flavoured thinktank promoting radical change in public services, including NHS | |
Results of various 'round table' discussions on key health policy issues | |
Influential scenarios consultancy. Great colletion of papers in Ideas section | |
Lead industry association for the medical technology sector | |
Creates forecasts, scenarios and strategies to help organisations to transform themselves | |
Dedicated to establishing the NHS as an internationally recognised centre of research excellence | |
For when I am getting too touchy feely! | |
Favourite Blogs |
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Branded customer expereinces and how to create them | |
Rob Millard is a strategist who works with professional service companies | |
Kathy Sierra's blog. One of the best around. Now stopped but well worth visiting still. | |
Life as a paramedic in the London Ambulance Service | |
Best place to keep tabs on what's going on in American healthcare | |
Paul Levy is CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston Massachusetts | |
How customers will co-design your organisation's future | |
Thoughful posts about change management | |
Rick Maurer - Author of Beyond the Wall of Resistance now has a blog | |
Ideas to improve productivity and be more creative | |
Candid and well written daily blog from a GP about what life's like 'on the ground' | |
Julie's just moved from Education to Commissioning in a PCT | |
Michelle Tempest - Author of The Future of the NHS has a blog | |
Part of the Leadership Now site from Michael McKinney | |
One of the ' A Listers'. Seth Godin, marketing entrepreneur. | |
Still going strong and still 100 miles an hour! | |
Bringing story telling to life | |
Must read blog post from Christian Jago, a woman coping with breast cancer. Is this what NHS administration is really like? | |
Blog entry from NHS Blog Doctor about how easy it is to earn QoF payments. Enlightening! | |
Podcasts and Videos | |
Top 5 USA-based medical podcasts listed by Clinical Cases and Images Blog | |
Charles Handy’s BBC World Series guide to Management ‘gurus’ | 13 'Gurus' summarised. Option to download/listen to programmes (15 mins each) and download program transcripts. |
Inspiring 8 min video on UTube showing work of UniversityMuslim Medical Association Community Clinic in downtown Los Angeles | |
Free PDF Downloads |
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Manifesto pamphlet urging managers to become more personally accountable for the success of change programmes and performance improvement initiatives | |
Executive Summary of a Warwick University report on the literature concerning the relationship between innovation and improvement. | |
Designing the new NHS: Ideas to Make a Supplier Market Work (pdf) | A Kings Fund discussion paper |
IPPR Briefing Paper on Hospital Reconfiguration Issues (pdf) | Institute for Public Policy (IPPR) briefing paper on hospital reconfiguration issues |
A 200 page OD 'tool kit' from Office of Deputy Prime Minister p.s. I don't think John Prescott actually wrote it! |