Tools, Methods, & Resources
Explore & learn more about the field of Networked Improvement.
RESOURCEPublications
Learning to Improve: How America's Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better.
Anthony Bryk, Louis Gomez, Alicia Grunow, Paul LeMahieu. Harvard Education Press, 2015.
The foundational text on Networked Improvement Communities.
Journey to Improvement
Alicia Grunow, Sandra Park, Brandon Bennett. Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.
A practitioner's introduction to improvement science and the habits of improvement teams.
The Improvement Guide
Gerald Langley, Ronald Moen, Kevin Nolan, Thomas Nolan, Clifford Norman, Lloyd Provost. Jossey-Bass, 2009.
The standard reference on improvement methodology.
Britto MT, Fuller SC, Kaplan HC, et al. "Using a Network Organisational Architecture to Support the Development of Learning Healthcare Systems." BMJ Quality & Safety, 2018.
The clearest available account of how LHN design decisions translate into cultural and clinical change.
Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
David Ehrlichman. Berrett Koehler Publishers, 2021.
The key to solving big, complex problems: a powerful and flexible organizing system that can span regions, teams, and silos of all kinds.
ImproveCareNow (improvecarenow.org)
Solutions for Patient Safety (solutionsforpatientsafety.org)
Ohio Perinatal Quality Collaborative (opqc.net)
SV-ONE, Single Ventricle Outcomes Network (svone.org)
Epilepsy Learning Healthcare System (epilepsy.com/programs/epilepsy-learning-healthcare-system)
All Children Thrive Cincinnati (actcincy.org)
Action Learning Network in heart failure (actionlearningnetwork.org)
PR-COIN (Pediatric Rheumatology- Care and Outcomes Improvement Network)- https://www.pr-coin.org
RESOURCENetworks to Learn From
LINsight (https://linsight.up.railway.app/)
An open, searchable database of peer-reviewed literature on Learning Health Networks, Learning Improvement Networks, and Networked Improvement Communities. Maintained by Spark's research tracker.
RESOURCEOngoing Research
RESOURCEWatch & Listen
Alicia Grunow’s opening keynote address at the 2025 National Summit for Improvement in Education:
Inside Social Innovation Podcast
Lisbeth Schorr, Fay Twersky, & Alicia Grunow address how the social sector must ask the right questions when developing metrics
Turn on the Lights Podcast
Interview with Drs. Donald Berwick & Kedar Mate
February 2025
Speak Our Minds Podcast
The Power of Learning Health Networks with Dr. Dan Hyman & Dr. Peter Margolis