NMHS43620

This module enables students to explore the theory and practice of innovation as it relates to the products, processes, services, ways of working and organising, and business models that create value for an organisation's stakeholders. The module adopts an applied and reflective approach to innovation in healthcare by identifying and analysing the features of successful innovations and innovative organisations, locally, nationally and internationally. Students will explore the factors that stimulate or inhibit thier own and their colleagues' creativity, reflect on their roles as innovators and will analyse examples of healthcare innovation in their own practice. Students will be facilitated to look inward, outward and forward, examining the sources, types, and history of innovation, how creativity and innovation is enabled or constrained in particular contexts, and how knowledge is managed to stimulate and sustain innovation. The emphasis is on self as innovator, students' personal and professional experiences of creativity and innovation, how organisations manage innovation, the impact of organisational strategy, systems and structure on innovation, and knowledge and innovation management frameworks. Promoting and leveraging creativity throughout organisations, and mainstreaming and sustaining innovation will be considered in the context of whether and how experimentation and implementation are encouraged and supported in specific organisational contexts. The Three Horizons framework developed by Sharpe (2013) and the International Futures Forum provides the theoretical framework for the module and the work of Frederic Laloux is also studied along with classic readings on innovation from authors including Christensen, Moss-Kanter, Herzlinger and Drucker.