Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast: Innovation Lessons from Mayo Clinic

by Nicholas F. Larusso

The Only Innovation Guide You Will Ever Need--from the Award-Winning Minds at Mayo Clinic

A lot of businesspeople talk about innovation, but few companies have achieved the level of truly transformative innovation as brilliantly--or as famously--as the legendary Mayo Clinic.

Introducing Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast, the first innovation guide based on the proven, decade-long program that’s made Mayo Clinic one of the most respected and successful organizations in the world. This essential must-have guide shows you how to:

Inspire and ignite trailblazing innovation in your workplace Design a new business model that’s creative, collaborative, and sustainable Apply the traditional scientific method to the latest innovations in "design thinking" Build a customized toolkit of the best practices, project portfolios, and strategies Increase your innovation capacity--and watch how quickly you succeed

These field-tested techniques grew out of the health care industry but are designed to work with any complex organization. Written by three Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation insiders--Dr. Nicholas LaRusso, Barbara Spurrier, and Dr. Gianrico Farrugia--the book offers a wealth of transformative ideas and strategies.

The concise, easy-to-implement methods can help jump-start your employees' creative potential, involve them in the collaborative process, and pave the way to the future of sustainable innovation. You get step-by-step advice on building leadership teams, accelerator platforms for speeding up results, and fascinating case studies of innovation in action from the files of the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation.

In today's fast-moving world, it's innovation that drives success. This book gives you the keys.

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THINK BIG, START SMALL, MOVE FAST:

"Truly great organizations do not just achieve great results; they are also relentless in the pursuit of continual improvement. This book offers both methods and motivation to leaders in any industry who understand that the pursuit of excellence is never-ending." -- Donald Berwick, M.D., MPP, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

"Do you want your organization to deliver a shockingly better customer experience? Here is Mayo's method that transformed the patient experience by making innovation systemic, the human side of innovation." -- Scott Cook, Cofounder and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Intuit

"A powerful set of actionable, yet importantly nonprescriptive, principles for transformative change that will inspire and challenge all of us to reenvision a system that delivers health, not just care, for all our patients." -- Rebecca Onie, Cofounder and CEO, Health Leads

"This book should serve both as a how-to guide for medical professionals and an inspiration for other innovators all over the country." -- T. R. Reid, reporter and author of The Healing of America

"Powerful insight on how to deliver meaningful innovations time and again." -- Frans van Houten, CEO, Royal Philips

"Leaders who seek to accelerate new innovation competencies can benefit from this hands-on guide." -- Sarah Miller Caldicott, great grandniece of Thomas Edison, and CEO, Power Patterns of Innovation

"Read this book. . . . Copy its practices.

Genres: Business, Medical

289 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 17, 2014

Reviews

[Sukri · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am a bussinesman so I got something interesting and motivation to make innovation and research in my workplace

[Melsene G · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book-it has a lot of meat applicable for hospitals and other large organizations. Excellent principles and breakdown of how to innovate and transform your organization. The examples of think big, start small and move fast were helpful. I took notes and will need to reread them again. Very helpful book.

[Jose Papo · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good book. Nothing new (it proposes the use of design thinking, scientific method and project management to innovate) but it was interesting to see how a clinic/hospital is innovating by focusing on the customers.

[Matthew S. Zielinski · Rating 1 out of 5]

I was clearly not the target audience for this book. There was a large amount of monotonous listing of facts and details that didn’t seems necessary to convey the point. Gave me a deeper understanding of the medical profession but not necessarily how to innovate.

[Jastene Reads · Rating 4 out of 5]

Motivation for innovation. Mayo clinic thumbs up

[Cindy (BKind2Books) · Rating 2 out of 5]

I made it through but it was a slog fest. I should have just skipped the first third to half - it was a pat on the back for Mayo. Look at how good we are and the minutiae of our history. Ho-hum. I was really looking for more concrete, usable suggestions and case studies. Probably one of the least useful books I've read in a while.

[Nick Woodall · Rating 1 out of 5]

Well, I had high hopes for this book, but they fell flat. Totally uninspiring and quite frankly, boring. I love business and business books, if they are well done. This one isn't. Don't waste your time.