Implementation Science and Behavior Change

Implementation science is an innovative discipline dedicated to studying and informing the development and investigation of methods to promote the systematic uptake of research findings and other evidence-based practices into real-world contexts and routine practices. This field emerged to address the significant “implementation gap”, which refers to the considerable delay (often between fifteen and twenty […]
More Accomplishment, Less Behavior

We hear it uttered by change practitioners all the time: behavior must change before the organization will change. Most often, such utterances are ill-informed and superficial. Time is spent trying to identify usually “bad” behavior and lagging measures are used to track its eradication. Even when the focus is on the “good” behavior we seek, […]