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A642.9.3.RB – The Innovation Experience

As a health care organization, health care reforms and the consumers’ shift to value are pushing organizations like mine to deliver enhanced outcomes and patient experienced at a reduced cost.  We are under pressure from regulatory agencies to align our patient care standards and initiatives in providing high-quality patient care with cost efficiency.  Organizations like mine are trying to reassess our existing capabilities and technology to manage our workforce, finances, and elevate our standard of patient experience re-defining focus on investments to best approach the challenges we face and expand for the future.             While different research in innovation has provided a higher understanding and perception of the social, economic and individual benefits extrapolated from new technologies, there has been minimal significance in the dialogues regarding the probability of detrimental effect that innovation may induce ( Edgell & Vogl, 2013).  According to Carmeli, Gelbard

A642.8.3.RB – How dangerous are Lean Start-ups?

According to Heimans and Timms (2014), organizations that are traditional and want to harness their competency to new power must 1) evaluate their status in the environment of shifting power, 2) channel their most brutal pundit, and 3) cultivate their capacity to mobilize.  Our brains are phenomenal storage for data and system retrieval that lean towards repetition and patterns.  Original new ideas originate from paradigms that are crossing by accident where the capacity of our self-organizing brains goes to work in a peculiar unification or merging that tirelessly try to make sense of an unprecedented combination. The ground for success is based on different components for one strategy to ensure that all business start-ups would succeed.  Utilizing a lean method start up would result in lesser failures rather than traditional methodologies.  The lean start-up methodology shows or teaches us how to drive, steer, and turn new business start-ups, telling us when to grow and persevere

A642.7.3.RB – Leading through Disruptive Times

Driving innovation is becoming to be paramount that it gives organizations stronger position from competitors, it generates consumers’ favor or appetite apropos to the organizations’ offering, and innovation magnifies organizations’ capacity to impact the global  market.  Although innovation is geared towards increasing efficiency and reducing the cost for the customers, we also have to keep in mind that innovation is a result of the creativity of the human minds.  Incentivising employees for their creative work in not enough to boost advancement in technology and employee morale, retention, and development.  Open communication that is built on trust and acknowledging the employee’s creativity and contribution is of utmost importance to continually promote and encourage innovative and creative thinking within the organization. According to Canfield & Smith (2011), for   organizational leaders   to compete, they   must   innovate and to innovate they must be open to change, doi