by Philip Boxer In the previous blog on strategy ceilings, I made reference to architectures as describing the way differentiated behaviors are integrated. How are these architectures to be described? What makes relational architectures different?…
by Philip Boxer It is only with the full relational form that the ethos of action learning has to pervade the enterprise as a whole. Up to that point, the assumption the enterprise makes is…
by Philip Boxer Some papers sent to me recently by James D. Smith, II at Carnegie Mellon’s SEI set me thinking about how demand asymmetry might be expressed in Category Theoretic terms. Work by Nick…
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…