Comstock's magazine 1217 - December 2017 | Page 34

n DISCOURSE
Cultivating Creativity
Sutter Health Chief Design and Innovation Officer Chris Waugh on empathy and the
case for innovation under constraint
INTERVIEW BY Rich Ehisen PHOTO: Noel Neuburger
C
hris Waugh’s entire corporate ca-
reer has been about finding a better
way to do things. Two years ago, he
brought expertise in innovative think-
ing and problem-solving to local health
powerhouse Sutter Health, joining the
company as its first chief innovation offi-
cer. We sat down with him to discuss his
views on bringing out-of-the-box think-
ing to a company over a century old.
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