The Novation Dynamic:: Clarifying the Work of Change, Disruption, and Innovation

Abstract

Leading in today’s health care organizations is extremely challenging. The speed of technology and innovation, increasingly more regulatory requirements, and the demand for value-based care, all contribute to these challenges. Many of the current approaches used to develop the leaders of today and the future fall short of what is required for success. Innovation leadership must provide the skills and competencies to facilitate complex adaptive systems, complexity, change, and quantum leadership. In this article, “The Novation Dynamic: Clarifying the Work of Change, Disruption, and Innovation,” a framework for facilitating innovation is described. As the largest health care discipline and the only frontline health care providers with access to patients 24 hours/day, the nursing profession holds a unique perspective for understanding today’s health care challenges. Nurses are well-positioned to be the leaders of the Novation Dynamic, to provide the leadership required in today’s health care systems, and to work collaboratively with other health care disciplines, business colleagues, innovators, and patients. Leading in today’s health care organizations is extremely challenging. The speed of technology and innovation, increasingly more regulatory requirements, and the demand for value-based care, all contribute to these challenges. Many of the current approaches used to develop the leaders of today and the future fall short of what is required for success. Innovation leadership must provide the skills and competencies to facilitate complex adaptive systems, complexity, change, and quantum leadership. In this article, “The Novation Dynamic: Clarifying the Work of Change, Disruption, and Innovation,” a framework for facilitating innovation is described. As the largest health care discipline and the only frontline health care providers with access to patients 24 hours/day, the nursing profession holds a unique perspective for understanding today’s health care challenges. Nurses are well-positioned to be the leaders of the Novation Dynamic, to provide the leadership required in today’s health care systems, and to work collaboratively with other health care disciplines, business colleagues, innovators, and patients. Michael H. Ackerman, DNS, RN, FCCM, FNAP, FAANP, FAAP is director of the Master in Healthcare Innovation Program and professor of clinical nursing at the College of Nursing, The Ohio State University, in Columbus, Ohio. He can be reached at [email protected] . Karen K. Giuliano, PhD, RN, FAAN, MBA, is associate professor at the Institute for Applied Life Sciences & College of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Amherst, in Amherst. Kathy Malloch, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, is professor of clinical nursing at the College of Nursing, The Ohio State University, and associate director, Education & Evidence Based Regulation, Arizona State Board of Nursing in Phoenix, Arizona.