Healthcare is a complex adaptive system with multiple stakeholders and dynamic environments. Therefore, healthcare organizations must continuously learn, innovate, adapt, and co-evolve to be successful. This article describes a systematic, comprehensive, and holistic performance management framework that healthcare managers can use to achieve these goals. The framework involves the ongoing assessment, modification, or replacement of current programs or services aimed at adapting successfully to achieve the organization’s strategic objectives. This is engendered by the presence of a culture that is premised on continuous learning and innovation. The foundation of the framework is based on accountability, the organization’s strategy, and its culture. This then acts as the basis for an ongoing process of measurement, disconfirmation, contextualization, implementation, and routinization that enhances learning, innovation, adaptation, and sustainability within the healthcare organization.
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