Performance measurement, organisational development and the problem of complexity in health and social care Introduction What if the tools through which health and social care systems attempt to make ...

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Governance, done well, accelerates innovation. That sounds counterintuitive because “governance” often conjures gatekeeping and delay. But in complex systems, enabling constraints—clear aims, decision rights, evidence standards, and risk guardrails—reduce thrash. They let teams move faster with less politics, less ambiguity, and fewer expensive reworks. Put simply: Governed innovation = purposeful exploration + disciplined decisions + explicit guardrails. Purposeful exploration means we start from outcomes the organization actually cares about (growth, safety, quality, equity, cost-to-serve) and frame hypotheses against those aims.

Twenty years ago, the title “Chief Quality Officer” barely existed in healthcare. Today, many health systems have one. But having a CQORead More