Leadership models and frameworks can provide a roadmap for leaders to think about how to do their work, improve their organizations, learn from improvement projects, and design leadership development programs.

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The core of the comprehensive IHI strategic improvement framework is Will, Ideas, and Execution: in order to get organization-level results, leaders must develop the organizational will to achieve them, generate or find strong enough ideas for improvement, and then execute those ideas — make real improvements, spread those improvements across all areas that would benefit, and sustain the improvement over time. And when this Will-Ideas-Execution framework is fully fleshed out with the addition of two other core components, “Set Direction” and “Establish the Foundation,” 24 specific elements emerge into an overall leadership system for improvement called the IHI Framework for Leadership for Improvement.

See the IHI white paper, Seven Leadership Leverage Points, for more detailed information about the framework.