Adaptive Design in Healthcare: A Different Level of Thinking
Deliver increasingly Ideal Patient Care at sustainably lower cost.
20+
Years of experience
122%
Performance improvement in diabetic population health
$1,700,000
Average increase in profit in one year, per unit
Adaptive Design Simplifies Success in Healthcare
There are 3 key steps to building an adaptive, innovative healthcare organization.
In 2-3 days, key decision-makers from the C-Suite to the frontline discover Adaptive Design by experiencing it in your institution — low cost, low risk, high reward and fast.
In three months, you adapt the success factors of Toyota, Apple and Amazon to develop a frontline healthcare Innovation Center. No consultants — your people make the difference.
Are you experiencing any of these challenges?
Increasing Staff Burnout and Attrition
Empower your clinical teams to adapt and delight patients, families and caregivers.
Declining Profitability
Profitably deliver what others can’t: Value-Based Care at lower cost.
Not Meeting Patient Safety & Quality Standards
Quality, safety and improvement are now everyone’s job, 24/7/365.
Here’s how we can help
The Pathway to Excellence
Discover Adaptive Design
Make it safe and easy for everyone to quickly adapt
It’s everyone’s job, every day 24/7/365
Book & Online Resources
Create continuous frontline innovation with our book and online learning.
Find out what's possible with our 2-3-day Adaptive Design Discovery Experience
Customized for healthcare decision makers from the C-Suite to the frontline.
Test drive Adaptive Design in your organization
Identify a key unit to be an Innovation Center
Adaptive Design advisors develop your people as ‘Learner/Leader/Teachers’.
Your team creates and validates patient-centric innovation, then replicates and scales success, trust, optimism and profitability.
Low cost, low risk, high reward, fast.
Book and Online Resources
Our book, Designed to Adapt, was named Book of the Year by American College of Healthcare Executives.
Get access to our best-in-class resources.
The solutions to the healthcare challenges of today and tomorrow lie deep within each organization—like gold, waiting to be mined.
What people are saying
Based on my Mayo Health System experience, I have one word for Dr. Kenagy's Adaptive Design—brilliant.
- Mark Lindsay, MD
Assistant Professor, Mayo Clinic
Dr. John Kenagy and Adaptive Design are truly expanding the possible for healthcare…greatly improving the quality of care while reducing its cost by 50% or more. I am not overstating this potential.
- Clayton Christensen
Professor, Harvard Business School
I have never done anything that energizes people so quickly. And the more they do it, the more they are energized.
- Ed Gamache
Principal, Fourth Aim Consulting, LLC