Working smarter, not harder

The Hayes, Batalden and Goldmann piece is an important contribution to the debate about what exactly is practice improvement. Most practice improvement thinking is anchored in the ‘innovation’ paradigm, and this paradigm is predominantly ‘gadget thinking’. Others’ solutions are to be adopted here because they produce great outcomes elsewhere. Except now we have to figure out how we can get the gadget to work. Few commentators have been game to...