Next Practices

Can story be used to help patients, providers, hospital administrators, caretakers, and other stakeholders to better understand one another?

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls around the world. Their challenge and opportunity was to design with and for the Indian diaspora community in the US to prototype a new model for better engaging existing and acquiring new members to support their global mission.

BIF is excited to partner with the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) to explore how might we shift our lens to uncover innovation opportunities that will transform how we serve patients through community health centers.

The healthcare industry is disrupting and many organizations are struggling to keep up with the times. Often times, business model transformation feels harder than it has to be. Business model innovation isn’t about practices, it’s about next practices.

One of our core beliefs is that a good story can change the world.  We’ve never prescribed what our storytellers have to say, nor will we. At #BIF2018 we are modeling how to enable self-organized purposeful networks. It’s up to us to accept the responsibility to convert random collisions from the Summit into powerful and purposeful collaborations.

"We can hide behind all kinds of data, numbers, and research. But if you’re making me tell my story you make me open up, and that opening up makes other people share as well. "

"The point is, you're gonna be able to do a lot by just being in a space that has intelligence, that has connectivity, that benefits from machine learning."

We're pleased to announce our newest BIF Member, the Joe Andruzzi Foundation, that will enable the exploration, design, and testing of new models for their organization in an effort to effectively maximize their capabilities to support their mission.

Our health system has the ability to accelerate society’s path to what’s ‘next’ — a next that holds the promise of focusing on health rather than health care or, better yet, sick care.

Emerging technologies don’t deliver value in the real world until they’re converted into capabilities. If they’re constrained by the straightjacket of today’s business model, they will deliver tweaks at best.

Human-centered design, the core of BIF’s methodology, helps leaders shift how they understand a problem, see interconnections, and better frame wholistic solutions. That is one benefit to a Next Practice Lab: it can generate more holistic models that can be scaled by social impact bonds, getting more bang for the taxpayer buck.