Orienting In and Orienting Out: The Political Context of Leading and Managing NICs

This sixth post in a series on networked improvement community (NIC) initiation focuses on how network leaders consider the policy, political, and economic environments in which their networks operate. Author Don Peurach argues that while network leaders must focus on developing and supporting the continuous improvement activities of their networks, they must also attend to the external environments that can do much to enable, constrain, and complicate their work.

Orienting In and Orienting Out: The Political Context of Leading and Managing NICs

March 3, 2016 | By Donald J. Peurach

This blog is part of a series that identifies and discusses practical issues that arise in initiating networked improvement communities (NICs). Contributors to this series have largely oriented in to the core work of NICs, in an effort to provide practical guidance to those seeking to launch networks. Their understandings are well represented…. Read the full blog post here.

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