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We believe in sharing the knowledge and learnings we capture through our work with people and organisations across the health and social services sectors.
Our blog consists of thoughtful and practical content and insight across a range of topic areas that aims to better enable people and organisations to plan, design, implement and evaluate their work.
Key elements and principles of co-design
What is co-design and why should we use it? As discussed in our last blog, co-design is a form of human-centric design which basically means collaborating with people. Now, let's talk about the 4 key elements of co-design and guiding principles.
Using basic health economic modelling for more equitable PHN service commissioning
Using an equity based model, commissioners could better allocate resources and expectations around equitable delivery of services with their commissioned providers, monitor performance and demonstrate equitable use of resources.
Strategic Plan: April-June 2022 Report Card
It's time we take stock of what we’ve achieved this quarter, what is still in the holding bay, and what we’ll focus on this coming quarter for our five-year plan.
A reflection on my Public Health Placement at Beacon Strategies
Our Public Health student placement reflects on her time at Beacon Strategies.
May 2022 - change is in the air at Beacon Strategies.
We somehow find ourselves in May (…which is pretty damn hard to believe) and change seems to be in the air at Beacon Strategies. It is probably an understatement that there has been a lot happening for the Beacon Strategies team over the first 4-5 months of 2022.
Implementing our strategic plan - 5 principles to guide our way
With the ink still drying on our five-year strategic plan (2022 - 2027) we are now shifting gears to implementation. For many organisations, operationalising their strategic plan can be a daunting process. For us, we are keeping things as simple as humanly possible and being guided by 5 principles to help us get out of the blocks.
Strategic Plan Actions April-June 2022.
Our 5 year strategic plan is now ‘live’, which we are stoked about. To get things underway we’re focussing on establishing three ‘implementation enablers’ and commencing a number of key actions aligned to our three focus areas: capability, culture and contribution.
So, what is ‘good’ co-design?
Co-design is quite topical in the health and social services sectors and there can be some confusion about what co-design is, and probably more so what it isn’t and what is involved in a true co-design process. Actually breaking down the word ‘co-design’ can help to develop a clear understanding of what it is.
A comprehensive strategic planning process
If you were to scan various sources of literature about strategic planning processes you will see slight variations to what we present here, however, a good and comprehensive strategic planning process will generally follow the process phases that we outline here.