BROWSE

Practical guide to help members of health and wellbeing boards involved in the UK Department of Health’s Better Care Fund projects. Contains sections on systems leadership and effecting wide-scale cultural change in healthcare organisations

Blog describing the Iceberg Model, a structured way of observing and understanding  systems and thinking through complex problems

Resources on the theory and practice of the Vanguard Method, an approach devised by John Seddon that aims to enable managers to study their organisation as a system and, on the basis of the knowledge gained, re-design their services to improve performance and drive out costs.

Mini-directory of useful concepts, frameworks and tools from the Donella Meadows Institute (mission: ‘to bring economic, social and environmental systems into closer harmony with the realities of a finite planet and a globally powerful human race by using the disciplines of systems thinking, system dynamics, and collaborative learning’)

Article by Dr. Donella H. Meadows (influential systems thinker and principal author of The Limits to Growth 1972) about how systems work and how we can manipulate them to create the most change: ‘leverage points [are] places within a complex system (a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, an ecosystem) where a small shift in […]