Active Implementation Frameworks™
The Active Implementation Frameworks (AIF) provide an organized summary of the best available evidence in implementation practice, science, and policy, giving you and your organization confidence in how to guide your change process.
For leaders, coaches, and staff, as well as policy makers and funders, the AIF become a shared playbook to solve complex problems, informing the analysis of each situation and guiding efforts towards the ‘levers’ that actually drive change. The AIF identify the information needed to transform your good ideas into lasting change, keeping the process focused on what works!
Usable Innovations
Implementation Drivers
Implementation Stages
Improvement Cycles
Implementation Teams
Systemic Change
Usable Innovations
Teachable, learnable, doable, assessable, and scalable in practice
Innovations, by definition, are new ways of work. We use the word “innovation” when we are describing new expectations in an organization; this might be a new or existing program, practice, or strategy intended to improve results.
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The logic behind Usable Innovations is that improvements can only be achieved if the expectations can be carried out by the people expected to use and support the improved ways of work.
The AIF provide proven guidance to ensure your innovations are teachable, learnable, doable, assessable, and scalable in practice.
Usable Innovations are a cornerstone of successful implementation efforts.
Implementation Drivers
The scaffolding for lasting organizational improvement
You may have heard this quote: “Every system is perfectly designed to get the result that it does” (often attributed to W. Edwards Deming). When we determine we want different results, we must prepare for system and organizational change.
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The evidence tells us that successful implementation efforts attend to key ‘drivers’ of change that:
- develop staff competence and confidence to use the innovation
- build the organizational environment to support the staff to carry out their new responsibilities, and
- guide leaders to navigate the very human process of complex change.
The Implementation Drivers identify the key organizational and systemic functions that must be installed, strengthened, and aligned to focus on effective implementation that delivers consistently effective services.
Implementation Stages
A roadmap for your implementation journey
Implementation is a journey, not an event. Successful implementation efforts are guided through identifiable stages. Each Implementation Stage outlines the key developmental tasks required. These tasks provide the foundation to progress into the next Implementation Stage.
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Successful implementation efforts in real-world settings require time, sustained commitment, and significant effort. However, with purposeful, intentional, and action-oriented guidance through the Implementation Stages, organizational and system investments are wisely aligned to support the most effective implementation processes to produce the desired outcomes.
The Implementation Stages guide the way!
Improvement Cycles
Get started, get better!
Human service systems are complex and inherently imperfect, meaning no program or system is ever perfect. To navigate this challenging reality, a ‘trial and learning’ approach is necessary. This approach, which is based on improvement methodology, is often referred to as plan, do, study, act, cycles (PDSAC). Using this approach, we work with organizations to benefit from what is learned from each improvement cycle.
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Success is not defined by the absence of challenges, but by our ability to identify and resolve those situations in a timely manner. Because the internal and external landscapes are constantly evolving, organizations need an approach that is responsive, flexible, and effective. By embracing Improvement Cycles as a strategy to navigate complexity, promote learning, and guide change, leaders and the broader organizational team become even more capable of ensuring that services remain effective, sustainable, and truly beneficial to the populations being served.
Improvement Cycles bring a growth mindset to your implementation journey.
Implementation Teams
The backbone for sustained development and results
Implementation Teams are one of the missing links in many organizational efforts to adopt new programs, practices, or strategies. When organizations use the best available evidence to establish an Implementation Team, this Team becomes the strategic hub of the change work, building momentum to achieve the results the organization seeks.
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Implementation Teams are developed to be the internal experts to guide the organization through implementation and improvement efforts. These Teams become knowledgeable about the new program, practice, or strategy and are able to support executive leaders as they navigate the organization through the change process.
Intentional development of an Implementation Team pays dividends for organizations.
Systemic Change
Start with the end in mind
Systemic Change provides an approach to transform an aspirational vision into an achievable endeavor, not just for the lucky few who have access to effective interventions, but at a scale that allows all who would benefit to be served. To scale up the delivery of effective services, systems need to change.
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Working together, executive leaders and Implementation Teams recognize and remove obstacles that interfere with the new ways of work, and they identify the policies, funding requirements, oversight routines, and so on that need to be revised to embed the new expectations to deliver meaningful and lasting results.
Systemic Change is essential for producing lasting change and socially significant outcomes for whole populations.
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Featured Resources
Implementation Frameworks: An Analysis
This analysis utilizes the six components of the AIF, initially developed to reflect many disciplines, as a grounding from which other known implementation frameworks are examined.
Synthesis of Implementation Frameworks
An integration and synthesis of current implementation frameworks. As knowledge about evidence-based implementation has grown so too have the number of theoretical frameworks.
The Teaching-Family Model: The First 50 Years
The Teaching-Family Model was perhaps the first “evidence-based program” in human services. This article describes the development of the treatment model, the failure of the first attempts to replicate the treatment model, the discovery of larger units for replication, the modest success of first attempts to replicate larger units, and the eventual success of replications.