by Philip Boxer Collaboration involves working with experiences in groups. As such, consideration can be given to basic assumption activity affecting the work of the group – the way our personal unconscious valencies affect the…
by Philip Boxer Everyone is collaborating these days. Collaboration has come to mean any working together by some team of specialists around a common goal. But is there something different about a collaboration that is…
by Philip Boxer The following suggestions are quoted from the views of Lawrence P. Castalino on GP Commissioning in the NHS in England, based on the experience in the USA on GP commissioning. The page…
by Philip Boxer The leadership of learning from experience involves learning from direct experience of practice – what is sometimes called action learning. This approach depends on establishing a ‘transference to the work’ in the sense that…
by Philip Boxer Practice-based commissioning is intended to overcome the difficulty of driving a health care reform agenda centrally through locating management of the health care ecosystem not at its center, but at its edges…
by Philip Boxer The UK Government wants practice-based commissioning in order to sustain an effective focus on the increasingly chronic conditions of an aging population – in a way that can hold clinicians accountable (see…
by Philip Boxer The UK Government is proposing to remove the superstructure of Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs) and delegate authority to the General Practitioners (GPs) at the edges of the…
by Philip Boxer Delivering East-West dominance involves finding the ‘edge’. But how is a strategy-at-the-edge to be delivered? How are services at the edge to be supported if they must be responsive to the customer’s…
Title: Analyzing the Architectures of Software-Intensive Ecosystems Authors: Philip Boxer & Rick Kazman Category: Submitted for Publication – not to be quoted Software-intensive ecosystems include large numbers of independent software-intensive and human agents interacting with…
In network-based architectures, the architecture has to enable the emergence of multiple forms of layering with respect to different forms of demand for collaboration, rendering it asymmetric to the architectures of demand.