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Innovation is more than just a bright idea.
Innovation emerges through extensive research of the context, and collaboration with people who refuse to accept “this is the way we’ve always done it”.
Often when people hear the word ‘innovation’ they think ‘technology’. But innovation is so much more, and sometimes even the smallest innovations can begin the journey of change that “sticks”, building momentum for advocacy and learning.
Innovation begins with identifying the need to do something different to improve outcomes and impact. Effective innovation is a result of extensive research and asking lots of questions:
What have others done?
How do we contextualise successful innovation of others to our situation?
How do we shift rigid mindsets?
What is the ideal pilot site to test our innovation assumptions?
How are we going to measure the success
of our innovation?
Who will be impacted?
What resources do we need?
Who are the champions we need to support
our efforts?
Innovation questions
for growing a vibrant
health workforce
What are the change levers required to increase the health workforce rapidly?
Why are we doing the same strategic plans every year, yet things aren’t changing?
How can technology and teaching innovations expand rural health training and service provision?
What can we control to bring change to health provision for the country?
What technology exists now that could effectively impact our national training methodology?
Can we diversify our funding streams? Who might be interested in us?
Do we have a marketing and fundraising strategy?
What would innovative infrastructure look like? How can we creatively expand our footprint?
What mix of health care workers is needed for primary, secondary and tertiary care? How can clinical training address this?
How do we change entrenched mindsets?
How We Help
- Strategic mapping of similar innovation efforts globally and within the Pacific context
- Facilitation of focus groups in the research phase and testing of options and theories
- Developing a change management approach to embrace all stakeholders
- Support to access funding and collaboration for the innovation
- Guiding implementation plans for the innovation, including building tools for data collection, monitoring & evaluation, and risk analysis