Book Review: Sway; the irresistable pull of irrational behaviour by Brafman & Brafman

Irrational behavour? Me? Never!The Brafman brothers write a compelling story of how irrational our behaviour is in a variety of circumstances. While most of the book is well evidenced they bring each of the issue…

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7 Twitter Resources for Healthcare Professionals, NHS

If you’re just getting started on Twitter, here are some resources you may be interested in:140 uses for twitter by healthcare – a blog post and one of my favourites. A bit old but still up there with challenges for youUsing Twitter in t…

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Why I was almost ready to vote for the NHS to go private

At the end of 2011 I received a letter from my GP practice to say they would no long be operating “today’s work today” so no more calling up in the morning to get an appointment on the day. Instead you call, get advised a …

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Future CIO: the Chief Integration Officer (redux)

Hard times call for hard thinking, supplemented by effective action. Achieving and sustaining our future relevance in a turbulent economic context will need a radical new approach to the way we deliver value for our stakeholders.

After years of careful observation, I have reached the sincere conclusion that the role of Chief Information Officer is not only redundant but was READ MORE You may also like to read:

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Readiness for spread, dissemination, scaling up

Spread, scaling up, dissemination, diffusion – whatever you want to calls it – does NOT happen in healthcare in the automatic “tipping point” way of Gladwell.  This is largely because in healthcare, the NHS being one great exam…

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