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I was visiting a friend in Coronary Care this week and in talking to the nursing team on the Unit was struck by how much even here they felt touched by the confusion and concerns that flow from the scale of change now being proposed for the NHS.

Andrew Loveless, GM EMEA and Co-Founder, was recently invited to share Element8’s approach to new ways of working and delivering collaborative change at a Strategic Health Authority Transformation Workshop. The session was very well received, raising issues such as:

Our customers and prospective customers seek new ways of managing complexity as they typically have many business units in multiple geographies which often have conflicting priorities especially when engaging in large scale business change. The execution of business change is complex work and is at the centre of all our customer's business strategies.

Habit formation takes about twenty-one days of focused repetition of the desired behavior.  This is about three consecutive weeks (not just 21 business-days) of thinking about and executing a new behavior so that it can become as automatic as possible.  This tends to be within the realm of personal development, but the same three-week requirement is needed for any behavior change