Accelerate Problem-Solving and Drive Action
An Approach to Solving Complex Problems and Driving Change
An Accelerated Design event with a Rapid Insight© approach, is a facilitated, evidence-based workshop used by health systems leaders and improvement teams to solve complex problems, drive change and transform data into actionable intelligence.
Accelerated Design and Rapid Insight©
This method draws on a range of evidence and disciplines to support groups to collaboratively work through challenges and issues quickly, to develop actions and recommendations.
Bringing together a cross section of people to form an eco-system of change helps to determine priorities, and gain investment for future action.
Accelerated Design enables teams to do a significant amount of work in a short timescale; they can achieve in a day what might take three months using conventional approaches.
Solving Complex Problems Together
Health Quality BC partnered with NHS Horizons, who developed this evidence-based approach to change based on a simple premise: people believe in what they design and own what they co-create. Rapid Insight© helps to turn data from highly interactive events involving large numbers of people into knowledge that can be acted upon to positively affect change.
HQBC’s extensive partnerships and inclusive approach offers the opportunity to use this method to bring together diverse perspectives who can problem solve, and develop actions and recommendations together, in order to support health care quality improvement in the BC health care system.
Outputs range from thematic summaries, emerging key questions or identifying clear calls to action.
The social learning aspect of this approach is vital, as intelligence is interpersonal, generative, and manifests when groups think and act together. Collaborative intelligence develops from thinking and working in this way.
Partnering for Quality, Co-Creating Solutions Together
Explore how we’re using this inclusive approach to collaboratively problem solve and develop actions for quality improvement in BC’s health care system. Below you’ll find an example of this process in action. We’ll be adding more as we continue to use this approach in our work.
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The Future of Change: Insights from Pre-Forum Day at Quality Forum 2025
Solving complex challenges in health care requires more than data. It calls for collaboration, trust and the space to think differently. The Accelerated Design and Rapid Insight© method creates that space by helping teams move from discussion to action through shared understanding and clear priorities for change. This approach was used during Quality Forum 2025 to bring together more than 270 voices from across BC’s health care system in a fast-paced, inclusive and insight-driven session.
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LOUD in the ED 2025 Learning Session 1 Insights Report
This report offers practical takeaways for clinicians, leaders and improvement advisors focused on enhancing substance use care in acute care settings. It highlights both the complexity and the opportunity of improving OUD care in emergency departments, sharing lessons, successes and new ideas to support collective action and ongoing learning.
Partnering Together to Drive Improvement
Rapid Insight© 2022 by NHS Horizons is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Interested in learning more?
Contact our team at teamwork@healthqualitybc.ca with inquiries.
