Goals

Through Unit 0.2, participants will:

• Examine their context by completing process maps of their various activities.

• Craft an explanation of their problem of practice and an associated problem statement.

• Examine the root causes of their issue through a fishbone

• Craft an aim statement and associated driver diagram considering the NIRN implementation drivers

• Take an inventory of their current capacity

• Scope down their project to a 1 year manageable effort.

Big ideas

• Through process mapping our activities and systems we can better understand and analyze them to identify how they contribute to our problem.

• Improvement science gives us tools to define our learnings about our context so that we may use them when identifying what changes to make to the system.

• Through implementation science we can define the type of drivers that may be most critical to achieving our aim.

• An essential part of understanding our system is understanding its capacity for change and then scope down our focus accordingly.