Journey to Improvement: A Team Guide to Systems Change in Education, Health Care, and Social Welfare

The challenges we face in education, health care, and social welfare are complex, requiring teams with diverse expertise to learn together and redesign our social systems for improved well-being. Journey to Improvement provides a road map for teams to follow, highlighting the personal, relational, and technical aspects of taking an improvement science approach and illustrating these ideas through real-world examples.

Format: Hardback
Length: 286 pages
Publication date: 07 May 2024
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Education, health care, and social welfare face complex challenges that require innovative solutions. Organizations often implement new policies, technologies, and other innovations to address these issues, but addressing them requires more than heroic individuals with silver-bullet solutions. Teams with diverse expertise are needed to learn together and use their collective knowledge to redesign our social systems for the improved well-being of our communities. Journey to Improvement provides a road map for teams to follow a different path to better outcomes, drawing on their decades of on-the-ground experience. It highlights the personal, relational, and technical aspects of taking an improvement science approach and illustrates these ideas through real-world examples from across the social sector and around the world.

ISBN-13: 9781538191217