Health care delivery organizations that couple enterprise and clinical innovation are seeing great payoffs in creating solutions with scalable and lasting impact.
Enterprise innovation is the practice of identifying significant, positive change and introducing it in the enterprise environment. Organizations are now shifting away from traditional definitions and models for recognizing and advancing innovation within their own enterprise and starting to tackle the concept of enterprise innovation on multiple levels. New missions, goals, and barriers exist within organizations today, and, with innovation no longer being limited to individual entities, an opportunity exists to create and maintain varying partnerships of like-minded people.
The CHIEF Enterprise Innovation Executive Forum Working Group — a cross-sector team of industry experts with real-world experience in spearheading organizational change — met to define what innovation encompasses, outline the Canadian landscape for enterprise innovation, and identify the factors that promote successful innovation and the barriers that impede enterprise innovation. The results of their work are published in a whitepaper entitled Enterprise Innovation: The Current Landscape of Innovation in the Canadian Healthcare System.
Enterprise Innovation includes:
- Definitions of enterprise innovation and what innovation encompasses
- An overview of the current Canadian landscape for enterprise innovation
- A list of factors that promote successful innovation
- A summary of the barriers that impede enterprise innovation
- Research that supports new concepts of enterprise innovation in health care
- Six key recommendations on how to drive enterprise innovation within health care organizations
- A checklist for organizations on how to drive enterprise innovation
The paper will set out to provide research that supports new concepts within the field of enterprise innovation in health care, in the hopes that organizations that tackle these complex issues will be well-equipped to spearhead change and bring innovation to the forefront in health care organizations across Canada.
Download a copy of the Enterprise Innovation paper here. Download a copy of the checklist here.
