All Outputs (11)

Innovation in healthcare: Developing the business case for redistributed manufacturing in deployed medical operations (2022)
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This paper explores the business case for ‘redistributed manufacturing’ (RDM) in deployed medical care. Employing an established approach, value stream mapping (VSM), we examine a manufacturing case from four priority areas: additive layer
manufactu... Read More about Innovation in healthcare: Developing the business case for redistributed manufacturing in deployed medical operations.

Humanitarian innovation: Defining the operational requirements for deployed healthcare (2022)
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This paper explores the role of Redistributed Manufacturing (RDM) in the delivery of humanitarian aid in response to disasters, conflict or emergencies. Humanitarian agencies must respond rapidly and with limited resources to address crises and deliv... Read More about Humanitarian innovation: Defining the operational requirements for deployed healthcare.

Innovation in deployed medical care: Building resilient healthcare supply chains (2022)
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For deployed medical operations, the delivery of critical healthcare products and services 'far forward' is a priority, calling for a radical shift away from existing modes of production and supply towards a more resilient, distributed approach terme... Read More about Innovation in deployed medical care: Building resilient healthcare supply chains.

Innovation diffusion in healthcare networks: The role of boundary-spanners and gatekeepers in a bottom-up approach to innovation diffusion (2018)
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Summary

This paper investigates the roles of boundary-spanners and gatekeepers during the diffusion of innovation where a bottom-up approach to innovation diffusion has been employed, presenting the results of an in-depth investigation of a compl... Read More about Innovation diffusion in healthcare networks: The role of boundary-spanners and gatekeepers in a bottom-up approach to innovation diffusion.

Addressing “Wicked Problems”: Promoting the supply of innovations into complex healthcare networks (2018)
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“Wicked problems” are complex, open-ended and intractable, encompassing public sector challenges such as poverty, healthcare problems, and unemployment which markets and bureaucracies often fail to address. It is proposed that inter-organisational ne... Read More about Addressing “Wicked Problems”: Promoting the supply of innovations into complex healthcare networks.

Resolving the rainbow of chaos: The value of participant-governed networks in implementing new evidence into practice (2016)
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In the face of increasing demand for patient care and service quality combined with increasing levels of underfunding the UK National Health Service (NHS) is under pressure to find innovative ways to improve patient outcomes and provide efficiency. D... Read More about Resolving the rainbow of chaos: The value of participant-governed networks in implementing new evidence into practice.

Social innovation in practice: The role of relationships in developing, acquiring and utilising dynamic capabilities in social enterprises (2013)
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In a constantly changing environment social enterprises (SEs) need to utilise dynamic capabilities in their pursuit of social innovation. Addressing the ‘double bottom line’ of both social and financial goals, alongside managing the challenge of fluc... Read More about Social innovation in practice: The role of relationships in developing, acquiring and utilising dynamic capabilities in social enterprises.

Evaluating the benefits of outsourcing: The case of UK higher education institutions (2013)
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Outsourcing has been commonly practised within the private sector for decades and the outsourcing of publically provided services is becoming evermore prevalent as the pulic sector responds to the need to bring about ‘more for less’. Despite this pre... Read More about Evaluating the benefits of outsourcing: The case of UK higher education institutions.

Practising social innovation: The role of social enterprises (2012)
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Social innovation has been practiced for decades, however relatively little is known. According to Mulgan (2006), Social innovation refers to the innovative activities motivated by a social need and objective, predominantly diffused through organisat... Read More about Practising social innovation: The role of social enterprises.

Key characteristics of SME procurement: An empirical study (2012)
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This research is part of the i-Compete project on improving competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the South West of England through best practice procurement. It is jointly funded by the ERDF (through Universities South West... Read More about Key characteristics of SME procurement: An empirical study.

A square peg in a round hole? A case study of whole life costing applications within sustainable procurement practices in the UK social housing sector (2011)
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The UK social housing sector is facing challenging times. The reduction in housing grant subsidy, the restructuring of affordable rent levels and the planned reforms of housing benefit under the Comprehensive Spending Review (HM Treasury, 2010) have... Read More about A square peg in a round hole? A case study of whole life costing applications within sustainable procurement practices in the UK social housing sector.