Stealth Foresight for Innovation: Creating Support for Creative Change in Large Organisations in Australia

The Role of Leadership and Management in Organizational Innovation and Creativity

Goals: In today’s organizational world, Creative Directors, Creative Organizations and Creative Workers are the sides of the creative triangle which do not get the meaning without any creativity or innovation. The appropriate organizational structure and support and encouragement of leaders and managers are two essential elements in creativity, and contexts and conditions of creativity is ...

The Embedded Health Management Academic: A Boundary Spanning Role for Enabling Knowledge Translation; Comment on “CIHR Health System Impact Fellows: Reflections on ‘Driving Change’ Within the Health System”

Healthcare organisations are looking at strategies and activities to improve patient outcomes, beyond clinical interventions. Increasingly, health organisations are investing significant resources in leadership, management and team work training to optimise professional collaboration, shared decision-making and, by extension, high quality services. Embedded clinical aca...

A Feasibility Study of Creative Economics in Public Libraries: Using Grounded Theory Method

Purpose: Libraries as social institutions have an indispensable role in meeting the educational and cultural needs of society. However, the economic downturn has increasingly increased the costs of library services, and consequently, limited them in implementation of the programs. Creative economics is a shortcut to making money through art, culture, and science that can partially solve the pro...

Suggesting Approaches of Tobacco Control for Policymakers: A Serious Challenge of Iranian Future Health

Connections, Communication and Collaboration in Healthcare’s Complex Adaptive Systems; Comment on “Using Complexity and Network Concepts to Inform Healthcare Knowledge Translation”

A more sophisticated understanding of the unpredictable, disorderly and unstable aspects of healthcare organisations is developing in the knowledge translation (KT) literature. In an article published in this journal, Kitson et al introduced a new model for KT in healthcare based on complexity theory. The Knowledge Translation Complexity Network Model (KTCNM) provides a fresh perspective by mak...