Innovation takes leadership

K. Kellie Leitch, April 30, 2010 Innovation Takes Leadership: Opportunities & Challenges for Canada’s Health Care System 9 The Ivey Centre for Health Innovation and Leadership To be a catalyst for this discussion on the innovation adoption and leadership deficits in Canadian health care, the Richard Ivey School of Business (Ivey) has created the Ivey Centre for Health Innovation and Leadership (th [...] The Centre represents Ivey’s efforts to bring the skills and experience of management education and scholarship on the subject of leadership to the health sector. [...] A key feature of the Centre’s activities is the annual Global Health Innovation Conference that brings together top global health experts and health industry leaders to identify opportunities for innovation and to prioritize health system challenges in need of innovative approaches and solutions. [...] Innovation Takes Leadership: Opportunities & Challenges for Canada’s Health Care System 11 At the inaugural Ivey Global Health Innovation Conference in 2009, the health and industry leaders that assembled to discuss, debate, and identify health system priorities, found consensus around the question: What is the most effective process for innovation adoption, sustainability and productivity enhance [...] Leadership arrogance or hierarchical models of power, and control over members of the health care team, is said to be the enemy of cooperation and innovative collaboration in health systems, and a grave cause of danger for quality of patient care when these behaviours replace competence54.