Now it’s a couple of weeks since the UK KMb Forum 2015 at the RCPE in Edinburgh. And what a fab time it was too! (even if I do say so myself) The motivation for establishing the forum had a…
a summary of my lastest reading
Now it’s a couple of weeks since the UK KMb Forum 2015 at the RCPE in Edinburgh. And what a fab time it was too! (even if I do say so myself) The motivation for establishing the forum had a…
This week’s proposal that the Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient be withdrawn due to variable and sometimes poor implementation is frankly shocking. See the full report here. On that logic surely most of the standards and pathways that…
When I accepted an NIHR Knowledge Moblisation Fellowship I wasn’t quite sure what I was getting into. 3 years (0.7WTE) to undertake a knowledge mobilisation research and implementation project seemed daunting. I felt I’d been given permission to sail to America based…
In this audio-slideshow (hence tongue in cheek ‘reading’) Mary Dixon-Woods provides an overview of quality and safety issues and literature using Hood’s Cypbernetic Model as a basis for a regulatory system in healthcare… 30 mins usefully spent via the Health…
Crilly et al chose this as the most interesting paper in this section… Interesting paper – methodological debate (p.68) Abstract from Tranfield, Denyer & Smart (2003) Towards a Methodology for Developing Evidence-Informed Management Knowledge by Means of Systematic Review Abstract:…
(Health warning: this is from a report published in 2010 and citation counts may have changed) Most cited paper – contribution to theory (p.67) Abstract from Haridimon Tsoukas, E. Vladimirou (2001) Abstract: Organizational knowledge is much talked about but little…
How we think about knowledge affects how we study things and how we act. And the world around us is changing. We need to understand how to change with it… “…increasing digitization of social and economic life, the widespread use…
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…
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.…
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…
