This section of Edgeware is devoted to complexity informed approaches to important issues faced by health care organizations. Many health care leaders have a growing sense that conventional approaches to issues central to their organization's future viability are not yielding the intended results and that new thinking is required. The contents of this section are intended to stimulate fresh thinking and new approaches by offering a complexity perspective and practical advice on such issues as:

Map-makers, Explorers, and Tricksters:
New Roles for Planning and Prediction

• Introduction: Planning in the New World of Complex Systems
• Planning and The Geography of Predictability
• A Limit to Unpredictability
• Regions of Nonlinear Amplification: Loss of Information and Unpredictability
• Decreasing Our Ignorance in Nonlinear Systems:
  Recognizing the Identity of an Organization
• Attractors: Nonlinear Geographies with
  Unpredictable States but Predictable Structures
• Charting the Strange Realm of Nonlinear Resonance

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