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Many NHS organisations struggle with how to plan strategically with partners to create value together. George Dellal guides us through some collaborative solutions, including what we can learn from Lego.

John Wilderspin spent 30 years as an NHS manager, so he has a lot of empathy for those tasked with writing strategy in the NHS. The strategy process matters, because co-production and culture are the foundations for real change.

This week we hosted an event for more than 100 people from across health and care to ask if strategy across systems can really work. David Jones highlights what's needed to make it effective.

Making effective system strategies is hard, but it’s not impossible. But we do need to understand how different a system strategy is to an organisational one, which means shared ownership and understanding success will be hard to demonstrate.

If you're developing a strategy, looking at what others have done can be a good place to start. So we’ve read through numerous NHS trust strategies to assess how they're responding to the changing roles of providers.

Why do strategies end up collecting dust on a lonely shelf? Rich Taunt blames a failure to understand why change fails, and explains that how a strategy is developed is just as important as the end product.

Shane Carmichael is responsible for our strategy and organisation design service. Here we find out what he was like as a 5-year-old, and the three most important things children have to teach us about strategy and organisation design.

Strategy is rarely a word that inspires enthusiasm. It should. But too often it’s an arduous process to produce a long list of hopes and aspirations, with no plan for action or evaluation. The result is something that no one looks at or believes in. What is going wrong?

Rich Taunt argues that we all think the same, and that's a problem. To succeed as a health service we need more 'cognitive diversity', seeking different ways of thinking and opening ourselves up to challenge.

I know you’re in the middle of something – thanks for even stopping by – but could I borrow you for two quick thought experiments? Only be a minute.