The search for innovation needs to be organized separately and outside of the ongoing managerial business. Innovative organizations realize that one cannot simultaneously create the new and take care of what one already has. They realize that maintenance of the present business is far too big a task for the people in it to have much time for creating the new, the different business for tomorrow. They also realize that taking care of tomorrow is far too big and difficult a task to be diluted with concern for today. Both tasks have to be done. But they are different. Innovative organizations, therefore, put the new into separate organizational components concerned with the creation of the new.

Drucker P.F. (1974). Management: Tasks, responsibilities and practices. New York: Harper & Row.

We know that we need some changes in the delivery of health care services. More efficient, more consumer-driven, more cost-effective. Is there room for innovation in the delivery of healthcare services? Dare we dream of making it better?!?!?! If so, are we willing and able to commit the resources needed to change our systems?

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