Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast: A Blueprint for Transformation from the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation

CHAPTER NINE

Innovation the Mayo Clinic Way

A Prescription for An Experience in Innovation

You cannot transform by amending the status quo.

—TIM BROWN, President, IDEO, and CFI External Advisory Council member

Ah, there it is. Or there it was. The “P” word, the word prescription. You know we are health care professionals, and perhaps with Clayton Christensen’s seminal work The Innovator’s Prescription in mind, you’ve expected us for eight chapters to “prescribe” how to innovate and to “prescribe” how to change the future of health care. From us ...