A Sentence to Ponder

From the Annals of Health Care column (article is entitled Big Med) in the August 13 and 20, 2012 issue of the New Yorker by Atul Gawande.  The article examines the combination of quality control, cost control, and innovation associated with the Cheesecake Factory (which I am eating at tonight) and wonders why those same qualities seem so difficult to embed in the health care industry.

From the article (and I will share additional material - - this is an excellent article):

"Scaling good ideas has been one of our deepest problems in medicine."

Scaling good ideas is not just a medicine problem.  The problem is an every organization and industry problem.  From education to construction - - the diffusion and institutionalization of good ideas seems very problematic and one of our greatest challenges.