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The Adjacent Possible

The Adjacent Possible. The Path to Novelty and Creativity. Adjacent Possibilties of the Screwdriver. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzYd3nVOF5Y What are the number of ways a screwdriver can be used? An infinite number!. All of Life are Complex Adaptive Systems.

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The Adjacent Possible

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  1. The Adjacent Possible The Path to Novelty and Creativity

  2. Adjacent Possibilties of the Screwdriver http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzYd3nVOF5Y What are the number of ways a screwdriver can be used? An infinite number!

  3. All of Life are Complex Adaptive Systems • No part of any life or social processes are linear or random • Complex adaptive theory applies to all areas of nursing • Administration • Education • Practice • Systems are naturally leaderless and self-organized

  4. Find a fourth word that connects the three words below Source: Imagine: How Creativity Works Jonah Lerer Pine Crab Sauce

  5. The Creative Adjacent Possible Scale free in your brain and in the audience Answer timing unpredictable Answer source is unpredictable

  6. Intention is not key What was intended for one purpose can be repurposed You cannot know exactly what you will need to complete an objective You cannot know what the environment will be when you reach your objective

  7. Best Information is not from an expert or from the top down Information flows in from all edges of a network Expertise is not a source of answers to specific situational problems Current information cannot flow from the top down

  8. Adjacent Possible Innovation Sourcing on the Web Source: Imagine: How Creativity Works Jonah Lerer Problems that took months to solve are now solved in two weeks Problems often solved by non-experts Example - https://openinnovation.lilly.com/dd/about-open-innovation/index.html

  9. The Leaderless Patient Discharge • The following have the power to say Red-Stop or Green-Go to a patient discharge • Patient or representative • Case Manager • RN • Physical Therapist • Physician • No one has the final say it is a collective decision

  10. Myths of a Leaderless System Without a leader no one will know what to do Without a leader there is no accountability Without a leader there is no direction

  11. Three Components of Opening Adjacent Possibilities • Environmental situation – What is the problem to solve • Materials available to use – What is close at hand • Adaptive capacity – Individually and collectively • Experience of agents • Sharing of information between agents

  12. Nursing’s Adjacent Possible Invitation to join in a Wiki project Book project called “Talking Back To Maslow” For learning and discovery wtaylor@hcgh.org

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