Across today’s healthcare continuum there is a need for simple frameworks to drive innovation. The Innovation Pathways Workgroup surveyed a community of healthcare stakeholders who answered questions related to eight key factors of innovation and whether or not these were impacted by the adoption of specific process management methods at their healthcare facilities. These key factors, as developed by the Innovation Pathways Workgroup, include common organizational elements that define the innovation potential of an organization.
Analysis of the survey results shows that the use of process management methods is strongly related to the success of innovation within organizations; more specifically, when process management methods are not used to pursue innovation, almost all of the eight key factors of innovation were negatively impacted.
