Chapter 7
Identification of problem or issue
Q1 Answer
In this chapter, the author is presenting the problem that makes health care organizations not to learn from their mistakes. He has a believe that these organizations do not consider their mistakes to enhance improvement. The author believes that understanding and learning from mistakes is an important tool in problem-solving. It also shows how reliance to problem solving can be counter productive if great attention is not offered.
Q2 Answer
This topic is important to all the individuals of the world, health care organizations and any other organization that does not learn from its mistakes. It offers adaptive design as a tool through which individuals and organizations can enhance their improvement by learning from their failures.
Making connections
Q1 Answer
The chapter has taught me on how problem solving may lead to more problems which is a new thing to me. The difference exists between what I read and what I knew because I did not have knowledge about the same issue earlier.
Q2 Answer
The topic provides me with good ideas on how to ensure success. It impels me to learn from my failures and focus on improving those mistakes. It gives me a good strategy for identifying the problems leading to my failure and looking for better ways of solving such problems. As a result, the topic has helped me to change the way of doing things. It has also provided me with information on how problem solving can be counterproductive if not well constructed.
Interpretation of evidence
Q1 Answer
I have realized that adaptive design is key in enhancing problem solving within an organization as supported by the author.
Q2 Answer
The aurthor uses other researchers work to support his justifications. For example, he uses Clay’s research which indicates a successful company’s strength can also be its weakness. This is to mean that what is good for a person can be bad for him or her. He thus suggests that the use of adaptive design is crucial in promoting improvement.
Challenging assumptions
Q1 Answer
The assumption in the study is that, failure to learn from mistakes is a common phenomenon to all individuals and organizations. I share the same assumption with the author.
Q2 Answer
Q3 Answer
Given the opportunity, I would ask the author to expound further the relationship between failure and success.
Making application
Q1 Answer
My advice on this reading is that it is important for people to learn and understand the contents because they affect their day to day life. This is on a basis of a scholar who faces the same challenges as addressed by the reading.
Q2 Answer
The reading encourages me to focus on learning from my failure since whatever causes the failure is what can assist me in ensuring success. Besides, the study impels me to use adaptive design in collaboration with problem-solving to foster improvement on my weaknesses.
Q3 Answer
I want to point out on the importance of individual and organizations to focus on their failures as their first step in promoting their success. Success arises from understanding the mistakes one did and focusing on improving those mistakes to avoid those strategies that led to failure.
Chapter 8
Identification of problem or issue
Q1 Answer
In chapter 8, the author has identified the problem facing health organization when it comes to the issue of innovation. The author believes that large health organizations have been unable to enhance innovativeness just as other organizations in other sectors such as automotive sector have done. An outstanding example of a company that the author uses to explain this issue is the Toyota Company. The problem presented focuses on the need to promote continuous innovation in the healthcare sector.
Q2 Answer
This topic is important to a health care organization and any other organization that needs to foster success through innovation. The topic suits heath care organization because the author feels that they are lacking the strategies of enhancing innovation (Gorman 221). The topic provides important tips that the world organizations need to consider to foster innovativeness. It provides real examples that suggest how some of the world organization need have ensured innovation and how such innovation has helped them to promote their success in their operation a good example is Toyota Company.
Making connections
Q1 Answer
What I am reading is different from what I know because I thought that innovation means changing the old style to new styles which is not true according to the article. This is brought by lack of enough knowledge on the topic.
Q2 Answer
The topic provides me with some ideas that I feel are vital in promoting innovation. For instance, through the study, I have realized that innovation does not mean changing old ways of doing things and adopting new ways. However, it implies solving the underlying problems and giving them a new approach that would offer a lasting solution hence able enhance success. It is more of adjusting the underlying situation to make it better than before. Besides, it has provided me with several details that I think are important in fostering innovativeness such as the development of personal skills, creativity, and problem-solving skills and promoting spirit among many others. I am willing to adopt this idea because I have a belief that it will assist me in changing the way of doing things thus assisting me to develop in the future.
Interpretation of evidence
Q1 Answer
The reading impels me to conclude that innovation is key to the success of an organization. Also, it has helped me realize that innovation arises by doing the same thing but in a different way.
Q2 Answer
Challenging assumptions
Q1 Answer
The assumption brought forth by the author is that innovation is important for the growth and development of all organizations. I also share the same assumption with the author.
Q2 Answer
Q3 Answer
Given the opportunity, I would ask the author about the best ways of solving life problems.
Making application
Q1 Answer
My advice is to compel the health care organizations to focus on the sediments provided by the aurthor to foster innovativeness in their products and services.
Q2 Answer
The reading impels me to consider solving problems as one way of improving my weaknesses. Besides, it impels me to focus on improving my skills and creativity to enhance success in the future. Finally, it encourages me to set clear goals for assisting me on providing direction on the path to follow to enhance success.
Q3 Answer
I want to point the need to solve problems as an important tool discussed in this topic which is important in ensuring improvement and innovativeness of individuals and organizations. Success arises when one uses knowledge, skills, and creativity to overcome the problems he or she is facing.
Works Cited
Gorman, Tom. Innovation. Avon, MA: Adams Media, 2007. Print.
