Adaptive system

in an adaptive system actually shapes the culture.

And if you shape the culture, it shapes the way we solve problems together and the way we interact.

When a leader thinks in terms of complex adaptive systems, their job becomes about observing the whole pond.

That's a shift in your disposition, not just your plans.

What he was doing, so I'll keep going with the analogy just because I think it is kind of a fun analogy, is he realized it wasn't about, like he could measure all the things.

It's like learning a new language, right? You have to everyone kind of has to shift.

This is not the responsibility of the leader to look at this differently and everything will change.

If we're going to think about it from an adaptive systems perspective, everybody in the system has to change.

Uh, why this conference and why now?

The conference theme is Adaptive Systems by Design: Humans, Technology and Safer Care.

And I think that encapsulates a lot of the challenges facing healthcare at the moment.

Increasing use of technology, introduction of AI, surgical robots and so on, and alongside all of the kind of, um, human challenges there are in terms of team working and so on.

A long time of that was in the UK, and I've been h- back here in Melbourne for about five years.

Uh, I've really specialized in, uh, thinking about how we can approach the design of complex systems in healthcare, taking into account work as done as opposed to work as imagined.

Uh, so b- thinking about, uh, adaptive systems, um, in various healthcare settings.

And my name is Deana Sommer.