Title: Researching Practice or Practicing Research: Innovating Methods in Healthcare - The Contribution of Cynefin
Author: Annabelle Mark and David Snowden
Details:
Mark and Snowden utilise some specific innovations in health care to show how new concepts can help in understanding not only what something is but, perhaps more importantly, what it is not. They argue that the usual science base we draw on when either attempting or assessing innovation in health systems is blinkered and insufficient if we are really to understand what is appropriate and where in this complex environment. They offer the concept of Cynefin as a way of understanding, interpreting and enacting appropriate responses to innovation which are dependent on both its purposes and context.
