Professor Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School is the originator of the concept of disruptive innovation on which Dr. Kenagy’s Adaptive Design system is built. Professor Christensen’s work and Dr. Kenagy’s experience have shown that it’s almost impossible for successful organizations to create adaptive innovations. Resistance to change is built into the DNA of almost every organization if those adaptive innovations run counter to the fundamentals that led to prior success. Good solutions are commonly rejected if they run counter to established structures, methods and, very importantly, mindsets embedded in those systems.
Adaptive Design’s power lies in its ability to help organizations expand what is possible in their organization. If current organizational DNA makes it impossible to make necessary changes, Adaptive Design solves the problem by creating new organizational DNA specifically designed to adapt.
Professor Christensen said in his Foreword to Designed to Adapt: Leading Healthcare in Challenging Times, “Dr. John Kenagy and Adaptive Design are truly expanding the possibilities for healthcare.”
You can expand the possible for your organization. Dr. Kenagy is certain that any organization can lead the nation in providing more and better care at continually lower cost — in just one year! Does this seem impossible for your organization? Maybe it’s time to expand the possible.
