Why publish about Healthcare Innovation and what is the problem we are trying to solve -- What we know from existing theories of innovation -- Learning from innovation failure - A case study -- Learning from innovation success - A case study -- Using learnings to make a model for innovation success -- Model validation in real-time - A case study -- A contemporary framework of leadership in innovation -- Epilogue.

The role of leadership in driving innovation through its different stages is fully explored in this book to enable clinical leaders and managers to design innovation frameworks. The book highlights how to maximize the benefits of innovation for organizations and integrated care systems while acknowledging that the process of innovation within healthcare organizations can be complex and needs to be well orchestrated to enable innovation to spread and sustain. The book examines the leadership enablers in healthcare innovation highlighting a new and refreshing strategic model of innovation. The model is used as the foundation to support the process of innovation, from ideation to implementation, within contemporary and ambitious healthcare organizations.