Knowledge is both resource and a source of value within employees in an organisation. Crilly et al identify 9 ways of considering the title question, but one of the most interesting things for me is the idea of needing to…
Knowledge is both resource and a source of value within employees in an organisation. Crilly et al identify 9 ways of considering the title question, but one of the most interesting things for me is the idea of needing to…
Great news: My little essay called ‘Quality Improvement in Healthcare: Is it mustard or ketchup?’ has been accepted into the ‘worth a second look’ section of the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy. Publication date tbc Happy fellow…
Looking forward to finally catching up with some coverage on the long awaited and much anticipated Francis report, after a day of back to back meetings I grabbed an Evening Standard yesterday on my commute home from London to North Wales.…
I often hear that healthcare staff can’t get involved in improvement – or can’t get other people involved in improvement – because of meetings. If the person I’m speaking to is the one running the meetings then it’s the other…
When I started my Fellowship I decided I needed to get out there – to mobilise! If I’m considering knowledge mobilisation (#KMb), I have to explore ways there are to do that. And I have to be prepared to have a go…
Crilly et al’s report highlights several ways we know what we know. They all seem to make sense to me, and that therefore helps to explain why describing what we know and how we know it sometimes seems nigh on impossible. The…
Sometimes I see even the most eminent and prestigious people taking time out from their healthcare priorities to tell us on twitter what they think of what’s on at the cinema at the moment. So, why not… I indulged in 3…
Health Foundation Learning report:(full report here) Leading networks in healthcare: Learning about what works – the theory and practice Published 23 January 2013 This is report is based on the programme the Health Foundation set up in October 2011 to…
Epistemology can be used “as a tool to cut into the discipline of knowledge management and expose its anatomy” (Spender, 2008, p166 – p.49 of this report) What is the nature of knowledge? (scroll down if you just want my…
“Apparently if you hold ice to parts of your arm where you’d normally stub out your fag, it sends a similar message to your brain without making you smell like a barbcue.” I came across the above line in ‘The…
