Health Ecosystem Value Design

Note this is the first edition of Health Ecosystem Value Design. It has been superseded by Chris Lawer's new book Interactional Creation of Health: Experience Ecosystem Ontology, Task and Method.
In Health Ecosystem Value Design: Value Sensing, Exploration, Strategy and Co-Creation Framework, Christopher Lawer explores how a commonly used metaphor for health systems - ecosystems - can be applied more deeply and appropriately to better understand complex health problems, conceive of novel systemic-level value propositions, co-create impactful interventions and solutions, and ultimately, accelerate the means and capacity to redesign health systems, value and wellbeing.

Specifically, the book describes how a greater understanding of ecological, natural ecosystem concepts, combined with a novel perspective on value and wellbeing, can help care providers, industry, research, community and government organisations to:

Deepen insight into complex health and care system problems, their root causes and consequences Frame and explore new spaces of possibility outside of traditional logics, silos and structures Define adaptive strategies for guiding ongoing discovery, learning and emergence Develop a portfolio of opportunities and value propositions, prior to investment or commitment in actual solutions Co-create superior ecosystem interventions, technologies and solutions (of any kind) with actors, and improve the potential of existing ones in development Build ecosystem-level capabilities and lead more creative and fulfilling organisations that do all the above repeatedly



Written for designers, researchers, educators, innovators, managers and policymakers, the book sets out a complete framework for framing, understanding, co-creating, adapting and transforming value and wellbeing in health and care ecosystems - sustainably.

Full colour. US Letterhead size. Paperback. 131 pages